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(...) helloworld.o (...) symbolsrec (...) helloworld.o (...) symbolsrec (...) ^^^...^^^ Did you think about investigating this error? Anyway, the version of binutils you are using is broken. Upgrade. (...) helloworld.dc1 (...) character" (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I have no .lx files in ../brickos-0.2.6.10/demo ! What I have done: 1. Looked for .lx in "demo": [ville@ville demo]$ ls c++/ c++.cpp helloworld.c helloworld.o linetrack.c Makefile robots.c rover.c rover.o sound.c trailerbot.c [ville@ville demo]$ 2. (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I forgot to mention that i am working under Linux Red-Hat 7.3. (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi i am currently working on legOS and i installed brickOS-2.6.10 successfully and downloaded the kernel to the RCX without problems. However when i tried to download the helloworld program with dll an error occured "error deleting program". I used (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I had some problems sending the original messages before I went to vacation for 10 days... When I came home, I fixed the problem and did send: memcpy.c missing terminating " character BTW, I would like to write programs in C++. Greetings from (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello! First: Im pretty new into Linux/unix as a sysadmin! I have installed gcc as a cross gcc (h8300): Here is what happens when I "make" the BrickOS-0.2.6.10: ###...### [root@ville lego]# tar zxvf brickos-0.2.6.10.tar.gz brickos-0.2.6.10/ (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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look at the patch here: (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Please Help?! Problems with installing LegOS on WinXP
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You might try following my instructions: (URL) recommend using the pre-built hitachi tools which you can download via the link in the document referenced above. Let me know if you have any questions. John Hansen (URL) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Tyler, You can check to see what Cygwin packages have been installed on your system by using the cygcheck command at the cygwin command prompt. Try cygcheck -c If the output is too large for your dos window you can export it to a file by using (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Please Help?! Problems with installing LegOS on WinXP
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(...) If you haven't installed 'make', there is *no way* you successfully built the compiler. If you go back to the URL you quoted, you will see make is listed as one of the required Cygwin packages to install. Re-run Cygwin setup.exe, install make, (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Please Help?! Problems with installing LegOS on WinXP
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(...) Hi Ed, Thanks for replying. In (URL) Hitachi H8 cross-compiler was built in: c:\cygwin\build I'm assuming that's where it is. Also, what is the "make" command? Bash in cygwin cant seem to find it. Thanks Tyler. (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) [SNIP] (...) Tyler, Where is compiler executable located on your system? Ed (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, Can anyone please, please help me with the installation of LegOS on my WinXP laptop? I have followed the instructions in "brickOS 0.2.6.10 Instructions for installing in WinXP" at (URL) to the letter but I still can't seem to get LegOS to run. (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi there, I got a problem running my USB-Tower on Linux. I installed the LegoUSB-driver and it seems to work (i see it in /var/log/messages when i plug it in). But when i run firmdl3 i get the following message: /dev/usb/lego0: not a tty I tried it (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Is there any way to zoom into the icons in robolab, they are a bit tiny and I wanted to know if I could make them look bigger so its easier to see. Also does the RCX Code (or RIS program that comes with the mindstorms kit) have the capability to (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.edu, lugnet.faq, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Install problems on Linux RedHat 9
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(...) You should stay with this version if you don't want to use C++. (...) This is the newest compiler, I think. The problem with this is that the famous "multi line string literals" are not working any more. Mlsl have been marked as deprecated in (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Install problems on Linux RedHat 9
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(...) ... (...) ... Yes, no one has ported the C++ bits of brickOS to work with gcc3. Use gcc2, or restrict yourself to plain C. (...) ... (...) Yes, gcc3.3 removed support for multi-line string literals. The brickOS committers all seem to be rather (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, I tried to install brickos-0.2.6.10 and have been unsuccessful. I started by going to rpmfind.net to get the h8300 binutils and gcc. The versions were: h8300-hms-binutils-2.11.2-1 h8300-hms-gcc-3.0.1-2 The brickos make failed with the following: (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, folks. I've tried to connect to my RCX 1.0 (firmware 0328) from my laptop. Since I have only a serial IR tower, it works fine on my desktop PC, but communications won't work when I use a USB/serial converter to connect it to my laptop (there (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Programming in Assembly
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(...) (how the manual says to do data)? That's because I don't like to type more than is necessary! :-) Take this line for example: mov.b #0x02:8,r0h This line is doubly redundant. The destination operand is an 8-bit register so the other qualifiers (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Ok, the motor stuff makes sense, I got a little confused with the shift thing. I looked at the proggamming manual some more and it explaned the @ (Register inderect) but I don't see why it is needed, also in you example you specify the data as (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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A direct link to the page with the documents is (URL) Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr> (URL) rot 13 "fr" "se" (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) You should look at Kekoa Proudfoots documentation of RCX internals ((URL) and his librcx library to understand the calling convention for the ROM. Then get yourself the H8300 tools (gcc et al) somewhere, this includes assembler and (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) mentioned previously) that describes the on chip I/O features of the H8 if you plan on doing any work with the sensors. (...) to (...) that (...) To turn on motor C forward you would do this: mov #0x02,r0h mov r0h,@0x80:8 The second (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Cool, thanks I was able to find the doc here: (URL) post about the motor seems helpful, so if I understand right the way to run motor A forward would be "mov 0x030003,r0h mov 0x80,r0h" and for the motor C the same except 0x06? How does the (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Programming in Assembly
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Here's a more direct link for the H8 docs: (URL) down to the literature section and download the two PDFs. For assembly, I would recommend starting off with an installation of BrickOS and perusing the various source code files for the kernel. You'll (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) find the old documentation files is a bit tricky, it took me some time to figure them out. Anyway, take a look at: (URL) look at the product list. Regards, Michael (21 years ago, 16-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Programming in Assembly
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I was interested in writing some assembly code for the lego mindstorm, I don't plan on writing an incredibly complex program though. I am learning asm for the z80 chip so I have a little experience. I only want a single threaded application with one (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Modifying the BrickOS source code
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Thanks Joe, it makes sense now and I understand it is something that is difficutl to explain esp, through a message board. Thanks for helping me out... Mike (21 years ago, 15-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Here is a visual representation: [ KERNEL ]mm_start[ HEAP ] The heap will contain ALL of the following: User Programs, User Allocated memory, Kernel allocated memory (not including static/global variables and constants). The only thing that is prior (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Thanks for the description Joe, but in the above paragraph you seem to contradict yourself, you say that mm_start is the end of kernel mode, but alos that user programs are located above mm_start I do not understand that part, did you mean (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Mike, IIRC, mm_start is the beginning of the heap. When the system or a user program requests memory (new in C++ or malloc/calloc in C) the memory is taken from this block (from mm_start to the end of memory) What might be confusing is how the (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Thanks to all with the help, I finally got my new News setup info (my original login wasnt working so I had to re-sign up but it took about 2 weeks to hear from lugnet, so Charlie posted some stuff for me). I am looking at mm.c for my project and I (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS motor-output: Subject to change?
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Do you use another firmware downloader besides firmdl3? Recent changes to BrickOS changed the memory layout a bit and this could be an issue. For example, I just discovered that the nqc firmware downloader doesn't like firmware files with (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, I remember. I have tried brickOS 0.2.6.10 but I had problems with downloading the firmware. I was unable to get the new kernel into the RCX. I do not have this problem with 0.2.6.9. Thanks, Dietmar (...) [...] (...) [...] (21 years ago, 14-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Help with lnp
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(...) (URL) the latest 0.2.6.10 version. Regards, Michael (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I guess I should have been more specific initially. Our question, more precisely, is which version of brickOS can we use on regular redhat linux? We will use your directions as well, but what we were really stuck on was which of the brickOS versions (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Help with lnp
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Hello Katie, (...) A good decision. (...) To install software on (RedHat) Linux, you will use a program called rpm. Rpm is a packet manager; it can install new programs, you can ask rpm if a package is installed, you can update an existing package (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) So if you don't want to take the time to configure linux, then you can perhaps try to download legnoppix. Legnoppix is a linux distribution bootable on CD you don't need any installation and it include all lego tools available in linux (not (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS motor-output: Subject to change?
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Hi Dietmar, Have you tried brickOS 0.2.6.10? Code was added to that version to address this issue. Mark "Dietmar Cordes" <cordes@lepomux.org> wrote in message news:3F0A7BA7.207050...mux.org... (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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