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Well, i'm still looking to find out what might go wrong. Fixing the sigio handler is of no use as cygwin doesn't send sigio's when data arrives at a serial port. Peter (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Transmission Problems
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(...) After doing a bit of debugging, I have determined it's all characters between 127-255, most often 127 or 255. If anyone has any ideas on what's causing this, please reply... (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: (Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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(...) I hadn't fixed that - but it doesn't appear to make a difference. I patched both the original sources and the post-WINNT-specific-patches, but no change in behavior: the RCX answers are never heard using the original sources, and the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: (Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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(...) i dont´t know if you have already fixed this, anyways, there is a bug in sigio_handler. The struct timeval last is used uninitialized and should be static. Today i sent the following little patch to Markus. ------- schnips schnips -------- --- (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: (Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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(...) Hey -- More info about this odd bug. Installed 0.2.3, and the bug is still there. A bit more tweaking revealed: * Compiling with the original (.orig, pre-patch versions of loader, lx, and rcxtty) yielded - after changing O_ASYNC to FASYNC - (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: random() compile problems
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(...) Yes, it looks like random is in a private library of mine, sorry. With all the exciting networking development happening, count on 0.2.4 being released soon, it will contain random() again. (...) For small amounts of random numbers, you may (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: random() compile problems
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(...) Hi Matthew, it lokks like the functions are simply not defined neither in the legOS kernel nor in the libs. Following the comment in include/stdlib.h, they should be in libiberty.a, which is somewhere in the cross-compiler tree. However, (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Transmission Problems
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Hello. I am using legOS-990330 with the transmission handler patch. I have no problems receiving at all, but periodically strange nonsensical data somehow inserts itself into the output stream with no apparent reason, like ~..y~~ Does anybody know (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi all, We are having troubles compiling code that makes use of the random() (and srandom()). The error messages that occour when we compile are: undefined reference to '_srandom' undefined reference to '_random' Any help will be greatly (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | linux-lnp: select() vs. SIGIO ( was Re: Call for debugging support )
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(...) Uuh, there was a little bug in my test program. Once again, i learned i have to read gcc´s warnings carefully. On linux, select() suffers exactly the same thing as SIGIO. If the hardware fifo of the uart is enabled, and there is a stream of (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Sound patch for 0.2.3
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As somebody painted out today, the frequency settings for PITCH_Gm2 through PITCH_Am3 (or 23-37) are erroneous. I copied and pasted these from Martin's "Wir sind die Roboter" demo, which seems to be in error, too. A patch to alleviate the problem is (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legOS-0.2.3 released
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Hello everyone, legOS-0.2.3 is out and available at (URL) for legOS-0.2.3: ---...--- * Better rotation sensor handling via state tables. * Sound driver to play sequences of notes. * Improved packet retransmit handling for program downloads. * (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problem with downloading large LX files in legOS (patch)
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Hi Frank, (...) Did you try changing end-of-packet timing? This may be due to ringing in the receiver, or any sort of analogue issue. This may also be the reason why LEGO is using complement bytes ;-) (...) Yes, this is what I meant to happen. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Call for debugging support
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Hello Martin, pthreads and select sound fairly portable. And, as I mentioned before, there's a way of having Windows dispatch asynchronous serial events to programs, so work on porting would be fairly localized. The library approach has one serious (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: (Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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(...) The original loader.c doesn't compile, due to O_ASYNC (and other stuff) - worked around in the patch for Windows folks. No help there ... I did some poking and experimentation, and here's a tad more info: - The "Invalid argument" error happens (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: (Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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(...) The original loader.c doesn't compile, due to O_ASYNC (and other stuff) - worked around in the patch for Windows folks. No help there ... I did some poking and experimentation, and here's a tad more info: (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows (Oddities)
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To Peter, Luis, and everybody else who put together the LegOS-on-Windows installation instructions: bravo! In most ways, everything worked perfect -- and on a Windows 2000 laptop, no less! There are, however, two glitches: 1 - When I run firmdl3 on (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Call for debugging support
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(...) You can take for sure that I read this ng, and I'd bet on Marco too :-) Yes, I've not been posting for a while. I've been very busy organizing the Italian Lego Users Group website ((URL) and this took a great deal of my spare time. I still (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Call for debugging support
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(...) Cool. Thanks. Ian (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Call for debugging support
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(...) I seem to recall there being a pretty good pthreads implementation for windows, and voila... (URL) Ferrari and Marco Beri also referred to a "native" pthreads library when they first released emuLegOS, but I can't actually find a link from (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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