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(...) Rich, Those patches were created for optimizing some legOS code. I believe it was some interupt code. The legOS code and brickOS code have internal work arounds. I have some emails concerning this somewhere. But you don't need these patches (...) (21 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Complete instructions for Linux?
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From: Rich Warren <rikiwarren@mac.com> Subject: Re: Complete instructions for Linux? Date: December 5, 2003 6:57:12 PM MST To: nanobapt <nanobapt@wanadoo.fr> (...) Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that this would build the BrickOS (...) (21 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: My problems with adding a Best Fit algorithm for memory management to kernel/mm.c
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Nevermind, I figured out the error after I posted and reviewed my code again. Thanks anyway... (21 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | My problems with adding a Best Fit algorithm for memory management to kernel/mm.c
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Well, my senior project is almost due (Monday) and I am having problems with one of the last algorithms to be added. My senior project is adding the 3 other algorithms to the memory management facitlity (mm.c), the algorithsm are best, worst, and (...) (21 years ago, 6-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Complete instructions for Linux?
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(...) $ tar xvzf brickos.tar.gz $ make or $ apt-get install brickos #for debian user ;-) nanobapt (21 years ago, 4-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Complete instructions for Linux?
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Is there a complete instruction for installing BrickOS on Linux? I'm particularly interested in details involving creating a cross-compiler and getting the USB tower to work. I've looked at the windows instructions, and have tried to work from them, (...) (21 years ago, 4-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Strange BrickOS Timing
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Hi Dietmar, (...) Of course :-) Ciao, Guido (21 years ago, 3-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi Guido, (...) That patch referes to an older transfer-protocol. The one we are using now, does not need SUCH a stable timing. But the Output from BrickOS is a lot worse than it was in older versions. I thing Gunther can explain this better, but I (...) (21 years ago, 3-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Strange BrickOS Timing
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Hi Gunther, (...) have (...) After some investigation I found this page on YOUR site: (URL) YOU state: Using Lepomux requires a stable timing on the motor port because it is used as a serial data port. Since brickOS does a lot of stuff (...) (21 years ago, 3-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi Gunther, (...) have (...) I'm NOT really an expert in brickOS, but these are the sources of delay and msleep: void delay(unsigned ms) { unsigned i; while (ms-- > 0) for (i = 0; i < 600; i++) // not well calibrated. ; } //! delay execution (...) (21 years ago, 3-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello out there, maybe someone can explain to me why the current brickOS release seems to have msleep()-amnesia ;-) We've been testing the data transfer to our Lepomux device. For some strange reason we were still using kernel 0.2.6.07nmChg with a (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: GP2D12 Please help
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Hi Sebastian, (...) I don't know the schematics of that sensor interface, but I think it's basically a bad idea to drive a device that needs 30 to 50 mA from a powersource that can only output about 10 mA. I've experienced similar effects while (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | math library
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Hello all. About a year ago I researched math functions so I could write some for the RCX. I found some power series functions that work really well. I see another message here posted by "nanobapt" has also posted some functions so I tested his (...) (21 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Please help. I just recently got a Sharp GP2D12 ir distance ranger plus RCX interface device from mindsensors. It is pretty cool, however I am getting alot of flucuation in the readings and in turn I think that i am losing out on range. The maximum (...) (21 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Help w/install _or_ It all went so well
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(...) You should uninstall cygwin and delete its directory tree if it is left behind. Then run both installers (the brickoslejos installer second) and you should be ready to go. You don't need to do a configure or make of brickOS if you use these (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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No,I didn't know they existed. What steps should I take to use the installer in an already existing install? -Wes (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Did you consider using my all-in-one pre-built installers? (URL) work well with XP & W2K (and presumably Win2003). There are problems with earlier OS versions. I've had several people tell me that using these pre-built installers was much (...) (21 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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hmmmm.... Now I have a different problem - the next step in the process: $ make strip strip fontdesign.exe strip: fontdesign.exe: No such file or directory make: *** [strip] Error 1 Is there a missing step to create fontdesign.exe? (21 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Help w/install _or_ It all went so well
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Thanks. This solved the initial problem which revealed a second... genlds.c has two printf() statements that have multi-line string args. I appended '\' to the end of all these and everything compiled fine. Now to test things. -Wes (...) <snipped (...) (21 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Or ( IMO ) better yet, just macro every line between 152 and 171, that's what I did, saved the trouble of another install... Put this on each line around the assembly code: __asm__(""); Make sure you keep the indent spacing also: label: should be: (...) (21 years ago, 14-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Compiling Classes
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I have several large classes in external .h and .cpp files that are added to my project and compiled into the .lx. I found that when I changed the number of calls to a major procedure from 2 down to 1, the final program size went down 20%. Are these (...) (21 years ago, 13-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Help w/install _or_ It all went so well
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(...) [...] (...) Well it looks like the gcc-version-problem I had. The gcc >=3.x do not allow multiline strins without "\" anymore, which are still uses in brickos. So my hint is to install a gcc 2.95 and everything should work fine... Note: This (...) (21 years ago, 12-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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_warning_ I'm new to BrickOS, so be patient. I've just attempted to install using the instructions at (URL) went fine until step 4 command './configure; make' which looked like this: ... $ ./configure; make Welcome to the brickOS Makefile (...) (21 years ago, 12-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Simplifying Cygwin & brickOS/leJOS
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(...) Suggestion, dont use Cygwin at all. Provide a pre-compiled version of: 1.GCC built for host=MingW (ligtweight toolchain for win32 systems that doesnt need bulky cygwin dlls) and target=rcx or whatever. 2.the BrickOS tools buit using MingW and (...) (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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(...) I'm looking into the problems that have been reported to me regarding using the pre-built compiler tools & cygwin on Win98. (...) IC4, so far as I can tell, doesn't have a command-line compiler which makes it quite a bit more difficult to (...) (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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(...) Dear Scott, Unfortunately it is still true that Interactive C does not support the USB-tower, but I am pretty sure this will be changed with the further releases (I recently bought a serial-tower at Shop.Lego for 16.99 Euro only!). But it (...) (21 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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(...) I'm just passing the following on for everyone else to read. scott Hi Scott, I don't have posting privs to all these lugnet lists, but just want to let you know that actually IC does support encoders (rotation sensors). It's just not (...) (21 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Simplifying Cygwin & brickOS/leJOS
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Hi A while ago I looked at using IC for writing programs. At the time there were 2 major turnoffs. There was no support for rotation sensors and you needed to own one of the serial infrared towers. It was easy to install and it had its own firmware. (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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Dear John, Thank you very much for the further improvement of Brixcc! I could install the package including brickOS on a Win 98 system as well as download the related firmware, but could not compile any of the demos!? Besides that: You said: "Of (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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(...) Apparently, there are problems running on Win98 (I've heard from another person who is having similar issues). I am trying to figure them out. I'll post here once I have a definitive answer. John Hansen (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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(...) ... (...) ... (...) Yes. The extra channels are for non-repeating stuff. Like you said. (...) Well, I've discovered (while working on a Spybot project) that if you ask just the right question, the people at LEGO may reply to it. They are (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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(...) been thinking that somebody should do this for quite some time now. I downloaded this package and installed it on my Windows 98 machine. Unfortunately, I have been having problems getting it to build the libraries. This is probably just a case (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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(...) [snippage] (...) [more snippage] (...) Glad you like the chart. Trying to find a way to present the information in a useful manner was the trick for me, too. :-) I'll have to throw up a web page or something. As to figuring it out, credit has (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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(...) Thanks a lot for posting this very useful information, Mark! I don't know how long I've been beating my head against the brick trying to make heads or tails out of the values I calculated for the various possible combinations of button (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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(...) You're welcome! (...) Well, I did try it out and it does work... somewhat. For example, when you set the channel to 5 using the technique mentioned above, only some of the remote packets reflect 5 as the channel number, while others still (...) (21 years ago, 3-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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(...) As cool as this sounds, it's not right. :( Sorry about that. There are just the two bits (like Mark said above). See, this is why I haven't been able to get my Spybot remote to work with my RCX. :) Steve (21 years ago, 3-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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(...) Mark, Thanks for posting this. I've been trying to figure out how to do that, but I don't know enough about the IR messages and baud control of BrickOS to do it myself. (...) I don't know if this is printed anywhere, but here's some more info (...) (21 years ago, 3-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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(...) Thanks, Mark, I was indeed using standard firmware through NQC... Philo (21 years ago, 3-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: IR Sensitivity - Was: 1.5/2.0 infrared problem
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(...) Hi Philippe, I've been adding support for the Spybot and Manas remotes to my custom firmware LDCC. The idea is to allow 3 people to each control a seperate train using these remotes. This is how I discovered the problem with RCX 1.0 not (...) (21 years ago, 3-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: lnpd+liblnp + brickos-0.2.6.10
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(...) Paolo has done some work in this area for Windows OSes and I am worked on integrating it to brickos with USB support under Windows. I will post my work at some point. Ed (21 years ago, 26-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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