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RE: Apparent 'time-out'
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth
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Date:
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Thu, 9 May 2002 21:45:27 GMT
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<rhempel@bmts.comNOSPAM>
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> I saw the above post in a thread on lugnet and to me it sounds exactly like the
> problem I reported to you recently. All I have managed to determine is that my
> hardware/drivers are sound - NQC works fine, Legos also works fine, both of
> these are to an RCX 1.0 brick and using the USB tower. I have also seen the same
> effect using the Serial tower, but it happens much less often for some reason.
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> As I mentioned in my previous mail, although the IR comms stops working, the
> brick forth software is still functional and powering off and then on again
> using the forth power function (via a key press) will start it working again,
> and I suspect that the comms initialisation code that is run when the unit
> powers back up is the reason for this.
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> I can't explain why it stops working - I've had a good look through your comms
> assembler code, and as far as I can tell it looks sound. To me it looks like an
> interrupt or the serial receiver is being disabled, perhaps because of some sort
> of buffer overrun maybe.
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> Anyway I hope this helps in some way, if there is anything I can do to help -
> more information etc, please let me know.
Rob,
Thanks for this. I think I'll be able to get to this tonight. I'll have a good
look at what is going on.
Cheers, Ralph
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