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| That doesn't seem to help, doing things that way actually made the Stop and Beep buttons function as Stop and Beep. I was hoping to have all the buttons "raw" messages available to remap their functionality. I think I know how to modify the kernel (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Please help me install legos on Mandrake or help me fix my debian legos and add math.h I am a complete linux novice. 1 I have been enjoying the ease of use of Debian and the apt-get functions and friends with that distribution. For a beginner in (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Linux legos install help me please
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| Wow thanks for the speedy response nanobapt. I am going to attempt to run legnoppix as a guestthrough VMware tonight. I will keep you posted on how that goes. Whati am really interested in is the math. Nano wrote (...) 1st Are you saying that (...) (21 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Linux legos install help me please
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| (...) Oups nbo sorry ... not for the moment but I can implement it !! Oh if someone know how to make work the USB tower under linux (to add this function to legnoppix) that would be fun (...) Yes that only this file ... (...) Yes put it in the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: NEWBIE question : installing BrickOS
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| I hate to see questions go unanswered. Steve H replied to me saying it took him 12 hours under these conditions, and now that I have done it I can say it took my P233 laptop a full 24 hours to install brickOS under Paolo's instructions. I'm also sad (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | The BrickOS Task Manager
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| Hi everyone, I was wondering if there's any documentation or example programs detailing how to use the task manager in BrickOS. The only example I have is the line-follow program that somehow uses tasks to 'wake up' when it detects a colour change. (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Hmm... it doesn't seem to recognize pid_t as a valid type. I have a document of the functions in brickOS that indicates execi returning an int. Which is it? (...) Still confused... I'll post the poignant code: pid_t rowthread; pid_t colthread; (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| in version 2.6.1 (I've just download it) extern tid_t execi(int (*code_start) (int, char **), int argc, char **argv, priority_t priority, size_t stack_size); declare in unistd.h ! So use the tid_t and not the pid_t ! (like say ROSCO) Does anyone (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Yesterday, I replaced the two installers I have up on my bricxcc.sourceforge.net site with slightly modified versions. The new installers contain a new cross compiler which I built from 2.95.2 myself (rather than the one Hitachi provided some time (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) only as a side note: you shouldn't really do this. you are burning precious cpu-cycles here. it should look something like while(!(rowdone && coldone)) msleep(5); if you're in a hurry you can make smaller msleep's... (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Are there any complete instructions for installing brickOS on Linux? The instructions in the FAQ are years out of date. I am very confused what I am meant to be doing. So far I have downloaded and installed these rpms: a.. (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Brickos fun and games!
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| (...) Looks like a nasty one, hopefully someone can offer some specific help. If you'd prefer to use a more recent gcc you can, I posted some info (URL) here>. My problem seemed to be the version of binutils I had. It may be time consuming, but with (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, FTX)
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| | Re: The BrickOS Task Manager
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| (...) Sorry, I'm still just not getting it at all. I have type errors all over the place trying to pass arguments to my task. Could someone please simply email me or post an example of a program that starts, runs two or more threads, and will (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) This works. Steve ---- #include <unistd.h> #include <dbutton.h> #include <dmotor.h> int MotorSpeed = 0; int RunMotor() { while (!shutdown_requested()) { motor_a_dir(MotorSpeed); } return 0; } int CheckButton() { while (!shutdown_requested()) { (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: The BrickOS Task Manager
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| IIRC the issue was that Task, Process and Thread were all used to represent the same item/concept in the Kernel code. After some discussion, it was decided that the word Task would be used in all cases. This improves readability, etc... (ie. Task (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | random problems...
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| I'm having a problem with the random() function in BrickOS. I keep getting a return value of zero. Is there something that needs to be set-up before using the function? What kind of value does it return? I've seen documentation that says it returns (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Hello World !
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| Hello everybody. I’ve been fooling around with BrickOS in the last few weeks, becoming familiar with it. BrickOS is very cool. Thank you, those who have made it what it is, and thank you, those who help out those with the common problems (yes, I had (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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