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(...) Recently sourceforge decided to get rid of the mixed case identifiers. You should use this CVSROOT: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous...root/legos login But it is still "co legOS" to checkout the sources Jochen (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problems installing in Win98
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Thanks for the info. I'm downloading the sources for binutils and gcc even as I write this. I'll let you know how it turns out. regards (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problems installing in Win98
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(...) You will need both source and binary tarballs of gcc and binutils, from the CygWin setup utility. You may also need autoconf, automake, flex, yacc, bison etc. -- or not, I don't know. They were installed when I did my build. You should also (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Suggested Makefile Changes
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'make realclean' causes a rebuild of .depend in legOS/util/dll-src. This is inconsistent with other places .depend files are used. dependency building in the lib branch of the tree is not triggered, and would use the old-style makedepend program, (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problems installing in Win98
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(...) Thanks for the reply. I looked at your post, sorry I'm not able to comment on what files are needed, I'm just now getting into all this. How difficult was it doing the build on your machine? Could you post or send me the steps you followed or (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problems installing in Win98
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Yes, it is possible. I have legOS running under Cygwin 1.3.2 (latest net release). I did, however, compile the cross compiler from source. See my post 'Toolchain for Cygwin 1.3.2 (latest)', dated 14/07/01 18:34, 2 posts before yours. Given that (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Multiple source files
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Hi, Assuming you have a.C and b.C, and you want to build b.lx, then the following Makefile fragment will work, if you patch your Makefile.user as given below. **** Begin Makefile Fragment **** all: b.lx # Specify all targets to build b.ds1 b.ds2: (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Problems installing in Win98
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Hello, I am trying to install legOS on a WIN98 machine with cygwin 1.3.2. I am have problems with the cross compiler. I just noticed the statement on (URL) that the cross compiler was compiled against the older version of cygwin and that it won't (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi all I'm trying to get the latest code from the cvs root as anonymous. It doesn't seem to let me login using the anonymous. I'm following the instructions on the sourceforge page: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous...root/legOS login but it tells me (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | 'Erase legOS' keystrokes - Please correct docs
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The 'hold Prgm, and press On-Off' sequence does not work for me. It is necessary to press On-Off *twice* whilst holding Prgm.If someone is unlucky enough not to decide to just press random buttons for a while, the might not figure this out. Great (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Toolchain for Cygwin 1.3.2 (latest)
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I have recently built binutils+gcc for the latest cygwin net release. I am investigating the possibility of posting them on the net, but I would like to decrease the file size as much as possible. I have already done 'strip -s' on the .exes, but I (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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How can I reconfigure the makefiles to allow me to create a .lx file from multiple .cpp files? I am not familiar with the compiler and its tools. (23 years ago, 13-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I am a new legOS user. Here is summary of my setup: CygWin 1.3.2 and associated bits. h8300-hms targeted binutils and gcc built from the CygWin source tarballs. I have been reading past posts to this group, and come across references to (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Makefile bug in legOS 0.2.5 for win32
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legOS 0.2.5 does not correctly add -D_WIN32 to CFLAGS when run under cygwin. This causes the dll and firmdl3 produced to be non-functional. Adding the define and recompiling corrects this. Also, there are stale .depend files in the 0.2.5 distro. (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Is this an error in legOS 0.2.5?
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Hi, browsing through the legOS 0.2.5 source I found the following part in kernel/battery.c: ---...--- //! battery indicator handler, called from system timer interrupt #ifdef CONF_RCX_COMPILER void battery_refresh(void) { #else (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | First time kernel hacker...
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Hi all, Im fiddling with the kernel for the first time and I have a problem I was wondering if anyone could help with. I really needed a function to be executed at exact pulse intervals and msleep wasnt doing it for me so I thought Id put a call (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Hi, you can download all the files you need at: (URL) need to download a patch for the Vc++ 6 to get it successfully compiled, because Vc++ 6 has a compiler bug. Olaf Christ (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi all, Where can I get WinlegOS? I'm trying to download it from (URL) but the link to the file is broken. Un saludo from Spain, R. Lou (ricardlou@yahoo.com) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi! Here in Uppsala, we have used LEGO RCX bricks running LegOS for a course in real-time systems. More information about the lab, and some MPEG movies of the final robots, can be found at: (URL) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | reliable lnp ...
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Hi, i always thought that LNP isnt reliable. Although this seems to be true in general, because lnp.c does not send any acknowlege-packets back, when downloading code (program.c) acknowledge-packets ARE sent back to to the PC (DLL), right ? So my (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RFC compliant TCP/IP and /or a new Version of LNP
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(...) There was a while back, but I haven't heard anything for a while. (...) You might try one of the embedded versions of Linux. ROSCO (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RFC compliant TCP/IP and /or a new Version of LNP
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Hi, is there someone who is currently working on a real (RFC-compliant) TCP/IP implementation for legOS to make the lnp obsolete ? Does anybody know where to find an extremely small TCP/IP implementation that could be ported to legOS ? PS: When will (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lnp rcx hostaddress
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(...) Hi, could you please post the code ? Thanks Cu, Olaf "Dammit Jim, I'm a programmer not a brain surgeon!" (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problem with floating point numbers (legOS 0.2.5)
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(...) Yes, the gcc version (2.96) which comes with RH 7.1 doesn't compile the things older versions used to do it. For example try to recompile kernel 2.2.5 and you'll see a strange error con checksum.S. As far as I know 2.96 is not a stable (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Liblnp bug found and squashed ?
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This is no good: I'm beginning to talk to myself ;] This is a follow-up on my previous post, and (hopefully) an answer to problem number 3. 'Bit technical I'm afraid. I'M STILL STUCK ON THE OTHER PROBLEMS (as of tonight anyway it's 23:48 and I'm at (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Some assorted questions
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(...) I don't know pre-0.2.3 versions, but now you can find it in `include/dsound.h'. (...) In principle it's possible, but changing the linking scheme involves too much work, IMHO. (...) Use the macro `ds_scale' (in `include/dsensor.h') to get RAW (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Lnp collision under Linux
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Hi ! I'm having trouble trying to make a Linux box (Mandrake 7.2 kernel 2.2.17-21mdksmp) communicate with my RCX. My ultimate goal is to try and make the PC control the RCX via infrared (so as not to suffer from the RCX memory limitations). To do (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Some assorted questions
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Hi, all - I was reading through the sources, and I noticed that starting with 0.2.3, there was no dsound_play. Does anybody know why the 8 kHz sound playing subsystem was taken out? That was, IMHO, a way cool feature. Was it just too buggy? Also, I (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: showing my ignorance of makefiles :)
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(...) Hi- You need to compile the the source files into object files with "make blah.o", replacing blah with the "blah" in blah.cpp. Then, just add the .o file names to DOBJECTS in the Makefile. HTH, --Quentin (23 years ago, 3-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: firmdl3 error - bad ir link
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(...) I just booted into windows, and the tower was working fine, so i downloaded the LEGO firmware. Now that I'm back in Linux, the tower seems to be fine. Go figure. Maybe there was another linux app that had the serial port open, and it was (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: firmdl3 error - bad ir link
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(...) In order to warm up the tower, firmdl3 repeatedly sends out some bytes until the tower echos those same bytes back. If this fails to succeed within four seconds, you get the bad link error. I have no idea what is wrong with your tower if (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | firmdl3 error - bad ir link
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Hi- Recently, I've been getting the "bad ir link" error from firmdl3. I can't figure out what's wrong - I've tried new batteries, different lighting conditions, near/far mode, slow/fast. I hope I haven't fried my tower - could someone please tell me (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problem with floating point numbers (legOS 0.2.5)
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(...) Okay, good to hear the problem has been resolved. Hopefully the person who ran into this problem before you also found something that worked in the end. -Kekoa (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problem with floating point numbers (legOS 0.2.5)
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(...) In my legOS setup (legOS0.2.5, SuSE linux 7.0), all programs work as expected. Have you changed something lately in the float-library? Or are there different versions of the gcc crsosscompiler chain? Mike (23 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | gcc [was Re: problem with floating point numbers (legOS 0.2.5)]
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Has anyone tried to use gcc 3.0 (one of the pres) with legOS? Just curious... Luis (...) (23 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problem with floating point numbers (legOS 0.2.5)
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(...) Actually, the problem seems to come with gcc 2.96 (recent installation of Red Hat 7.1). My program runs without any problem on an other PC with gcc 2.95. I have forced the system to use egcs, re-built everything, and now it works fine. (23 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lnp rcx hostaddress [and a summer legOS release?]
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I'm very open, to feedback to tell me why I'm nuts and/or to help in making sure I don't break anything important to current legOS users. I certainly won't change anything serious without announcing and discussing it here. Luis (...) (23 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lnp rcx hostaddress [and a summer legOS release?]
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Hi I'm preparing for the same project Vittorio's working on, a high level library in C++ to send explicit commands to rcx from a pc and back. I hope if you gonna change the low level library you will mantain a certain compatibility so that I won't (...) (23 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lnp rcx hostaddress [and a summer legOS release?]
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Vittorio- I've frequently wondered the same, but since I've never had reason to use LNP I've never fixed it. If you'd like to submit a patch I'll gladly apply it to the source tree. In other news- I'm back, more or less. While this week will be (...) (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | lnp rcx hostaddress
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I have an important question: WHY the rcx lnp address (and mask) is hardcoded in the library? I inspected the source code for both the pc part and the rcx part. The pc library is well formed and the init function allows you to set up the address and (...) (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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