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    Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem —Chris Page
   (...) This helped me track down the problem - the minute I add the odd parity bit the serial driver changes the word length from 8 to 7. Doesn't look like I can do much about it from the Linux side either. :( Thanks for the help everyone, looks like (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
   
        Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem —Dave Baum
   (...) This may not be a driver bug - it may be a hardware limitation. AFAIK, parity is most commonly used with 7 bit words - support for a ninth bit (8 data plus parity) is poor or non-existant on some UARTs. Dave (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
   
        Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem —Chris Page
   (...) Nope, I've written a program to send messages to the RCX (like the send.c program on RCX Internals) for the Amiga side - I can boot into LinuxPPC or AmigaOS - and that works fine. If I can work out the format of the image files nqc generates (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
   
        Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem —Dave Baum
   (...) The format is described in rcxlib/rcxifile.h in the source distribution. (...) Assuming you have a reasonably modern C++ compiler (gcc is ideal), then the port is rarely more complicated than creating a special subclass of the PSerial class (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
   
        Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem —Chris Page
   (...) Thanks, I'll look at that tonight (didn't really get chance yesterday). (...) Unfortunately the versions of gcc on both my Amiga and Thinkpad (running Mandrake 7.1) bomb when trying to compile nqc: both complain that vector.h - in g++-2 on my (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
   
        Re: LinuxPPC and "No response from RCX" problem —Dave Baum
   (...) vectorh.h is part of the C++ standard library. Apparently some systems don't have it installed by default. There was some discussion on this a while back... (URL) think the conclusion was that with ManDrake 7.1 you need to install the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
 

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