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00:46.22CosmicPenguinWhat up people?
00:46.52TomWSaturday night and it is snowing again.  :(
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01:08.36sorphinTomW: simms showed up
01:08.50TomWcool!  They work okay?
01:09.08TomWk
01:09.16sorphinCosmicPenguin: whats up is no triple black singles yet, bah :P
01:11.44CosmicPenguinsorphin: you can always give them out to your friends
01:12.15CosmicPenguinsorphin: so, legally or not, where can I find a RDP terminal server without paying for it?
01:12.20sorphinCosmicPenguin: true, except i have none around here anymore
01:12.45sorphinCosmicPenguin: for example?
01:13.12CosmicPenguinsorphin: I just need a RDP server
01:13.13CosmicPenguinThats all
01:13.38CosmicPenguinsorphin: and I would rather not plunk down huge bucks for Win2k terminal server and never use it again, know what I'm saying?
01:14.13sorphinCosmicPenguin: if by that you mean just a nice device w/ a buncha serials
01:14.19sorphini dunno, i got my 2511 for free
01:17.54sorphinTomW: yo
01:18.02TomW?
01:21.34CosmicPenguinsorphin: find a friend, give him a triple black, and have *him* turn it on
01:22.26sorphinheh
01:22.53sorphinCosmicPenguin: you got pixil gpl'd yet? :P
01:24.12CosmicPenguinsorphin: not yet
01:24.27CosmicPenguinsorphin: when it comes to greg, these things take time
01:24.57CosmicPenguinsorphin: I did get it running on the tux though
01:24.58CosmicPenguinKinda
01:25.03CosmicPenguinThe console keeps screwing with it
01:25.57sorphinCosmicPenguin: fun
01:26.02TomWsorphin: those wires route the RDY/#BSY signal to the edge so that my programmer could tell when the Flash device was ready for the next byte.
01:29.15TomWsorphin: I tested the simms in my webpal to make sure that they booted.
01:29.40sorphinok
01:30.10TomWI am not trying to sabotage your webpal.  :-/
01:34.30sorphini know
01:34.35sorphini just wasn't sure what they were for
01:34.38anderseeCosmicPenguin: yeah, Greg has spent the part 3 years patiently killing all hope of a future for microwindows...  He's clearly in no rush
01:34.40sorphinand i like knowing things ;)
01:35.01sorphinsomeone needs to kill a future for Greg ;p
01:35.22CosmicPenguinandersee: I've got the damn project on life support right now
01:38.32sorphinTomW: hmm
01:38.57sorphinthe lights show good sign, but no serial, not even the Ctrl-A prompt on the serial.. and i cut jp1.. heh
01:43.53sorphinTomW: ahh.. it was because of the params, hitting sw2 got me what i needed
01:44.57TomWI use a KVM switch and have the wp hooked into it so I can have it use my LCD monitor & keyboad.
01:45.11sorphinnod
01:45.43sorphineww
01:45.48sorphinchecksum errors like a mofo
01:45.51sorphinreading
01:45.59TomWvia bootp
01:46.01TomW?
01:46.14sorphinyeah
01:46.19TomWmm
01:46.31sorphinthis after cutting jp1..
01:46.36sorphintrying my other serial adapter
01:52.40TomWwell, I got debian running on the ide drive.
01:53.16TomWI would like to make the console fonts a lot LARGER though, cannot see the darned text on the TV set.
01:53.28sorphinhrm
01:53.31sorphinonly changes are jp1 and that red wire
01:53.41sorphinnow the thing comes up w/ the red led on right away
01:53.58CosmicPenguinI really don't care about "professional" TT  fonts on Linux - what we realy need are some open source TV ready fonts
01:54.03TomWsorphin: the red led is the IDE drive light.
01:54.25TomWCosmicPenguin: agreed!
01:54.42sorphinTomW: it comes on right away and stays on
01:54.47sorphinno ctrl-a
01:54.54sorphinno nothing regardless of sw2
01:55.27TomWI have been puzzling over the acorn frame buffer sources, AFAICT, I have to feed it a larger font.  If it can render them.
01:55.44TomWsorphin: I have no serail hookup to the wp.
01:56.05sorphinheh
01:57.31TomWhow about doing a pivot_root script?  The pivot root on the Tux would leave the mtdblock (old root) under mnt/initrd.  I used to be able to edit the contents of the flash from there (copy files, etc).
01:58.01sorphinand unless i'm imagining, the other simm pretends like it has nothing on it :P (in both webpals)
01:58.10sorphinyou sure you flashed *both* simms? :/
01:58.11TomWchouimat|hungry: how can you cook THEN be hungry, doesn't it go the other way around?
01:58.23TomWsorphin: yes, and booted both.
01:58.26CosmicPenguinSO nobody knows of an open source RDP server then?
01:58.35TomWRDP?
01:58.39chouimat|hungryTomW: I did a huge batch of spagetti sauce and I'm waiting for it to be ready in some hours
01:58.46CosmicPenguinI gotta make like Blackbeard then?
01:59.01CosmicPenguinYar
01:59.02sorphinTomW: well, the 2nd one has nothing on it from the way both webpals are acting (and no, i didn't do any hotswapping or anything)
01:59.12TomWibot RDP?
01:59.12TomW: KCI error, or a problem with the Keyboard-Chair Interface.
01:59.27CosmicPenguinTomW:  Remote Desktop Protocol, IIRC
01:59.32CosmicPenguinKinda like VNC for Windoze
01:59.46chouimat|hungryCosmicPenguin: winblows terminal server?
01:59.47TomWsorphin: hmm, clean the edge contacts?
01:59.54CosmicPenguinchouimat|hungry: exactly
02:00.16TomWCosmicPenguin: eyuuuh!
02:00.31TomWCosmicPenguin: I know nada bout that.
02:00.53CosmicPenguinTomW: Unfortunately I can't pick my clients
02:00.59TomWIn fact, I don't even want to go there to see how badly they fsck'ed up that idea.
02:01.11CosmicPenguinTomW: He wants a RDP client on Linux, but I gotta test it somehow
02:01.56sorphinTomW: nada, this simm has nothing on it, doesn't even try and boot
02:04.01sorphinah well
02:07.13TomWCosmicPenguin: WOW! now that is what I call a font!
02:07.42chouimat|hungryTomW: huh?
02:07.57TomWCosmicPenguin: I enabled the extra compiled in fonts of the frame buffer and chose the 12x22 font.  WOW!
02:08.13chouimat|hungry12x22 on 640x480?????
02:08.28TomWyeah!  Almost looks like a TT font.
02:08.41chouimat|hungryTomW: that must be huge
02:08.56TomWI'm gonna try it on the TV to see how it looks.
02:09.27sorphinTomW: thanks for trying btw..
02:13.06sorphinchouimat|hungry: i'm back in that boat
02:14.07chouimat|hungrysorphin: I will try to find someone with better soldering skil than me and pay him to do the serial adapter
02:15.14TomWit looks real good on the TV, 53 chars x 21 line!
02:15.56TomWnow to get the IR keyboard & mouse working...
02:15.59sorphinheh
02:16.53TomWsorphin: I thought that I was doing a good thing... sorry.
02:18.13sorphinTomW: um.. you did, that's why i said thanks
02:18.31sorphin<sorphin> TomW: thanks for trying btw..
02:19.12sorphinguess i'm just not meant to have working webpals
02:19.56chouimat|hungrysorphin: calm down maybe some day that will work for you
02:20.58sorphinchouimat|hungry: "calm down" ? that would require me to even be worked up, i was making a simple statement
02:22.24chouimat|hungryhttp://anthrax.ds.pg.gda.pl/server/
02:29.03TomWsorphin: is it possible to use IOCTLs to read / write to the lpt ?
02:29.10TomWor parport0 dev?
02:30.20sorphini duno the parallel port is what that one guy uses (instead of serial)
02:30.22TomWcause if it is, it should be possible to program the simms with a series of octal latches & some octal buffer chips.
02:33.25fontenotwow that's the last time I do make bootstrap on gcc without setting --enable-languages
02:33.42fontenotthere's only about a million files in theuseless java crap
02:33.42sorphinheh
02:33.52sorphinfontenot: um.. that's why you never do that
02:35.13fontenoti never will again
02:35.56fontenotmake that two million
02:38.33fontenotwell at least my new box did it in under 27 minutes :-)
02:42.16sorphinnod
02:42.58fontenothow do I make kernel build with different compiler? I forget
02:43.10fontenotexporting CC does not work
02:43.21fontenotCC=foo make ?
02:43.53MonMothafontenot: are you trying to xcompile?
02:44.09MonMothamake CROSS_COMPILE="arm-linux-" bzImage
02:44.16fontenotMonMotha: nope, just use gcc3 to build a kernel instead of gcc2
02:44.21fontenotmaybe it's HOSTCC
02:44.23MonMothaah, CC= should work for that
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02:44.34MonMothaat least I'm pretty sure I've done that before
02:45.03fontenotnope that's not it either tho it looks like it from the amkefile
02:45.21fontenotmake dep is using gcc no matter what I do
02:46.34sorphinMonMotha: yo
02:46.40sorphinMonMotha: what's the current on your programmer?
02:47.36MonMothawell, I've got all the hardware done except for the ack logic
02:47.40sorphinthe 2nd simm i got back from tomw seemed blank and the 1st was fine till i tried writing params to it, so trying a local programmer is another shot
02:47.43sorphinnod
02:48.20MonMothaand I won't be able to finish building it until at least tuesday as I have to stop by MAI on monday since my local radio shack no longer stocks NOR gates
02:48.26MonMothasorphin: what do you think I'm doing :)
02:48.51MonMothait's built entirely from 74 series glue logic (about 20 chips total)
02:48.52sorphinthere's a place local here that prolly has all the chips i'd need
02:49.05MonMothayeah, MAI is about 20min away for me
02:49.09MonMothathey have everythign I need usually
02:49.13chouimatMonMotha: parallel port?
02:49.20sorphinyes
02:49.46fontenotdammit no matter what I do it uses gcc
02:49.57fontenotI even edited the makefile
02:50.26sorphinheh
02:50.32sorphinfontenot: trying to xcompile a kernel?
02:51.11chouimatok I will need to redo that box from scratch .....
02:51.27MonMothachouimat: of course
02:51.28fontenotpos badly written makefile
02:51.57fontenotat one point it does CC=$(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
02:52.10chouimatMonMotha: there no way to flash a webpal via a laplink cable :) just asking :)
02:53.28sorphinheh
02:53.51chouimatsorphin: :)
03:00.10fontenotbah it was all for nothing anyway
03:00.20fontenotthat's what I get for believeing what I read on forums
03:03.35sorphinfontenot: eh?
03:03.54fontenothaving ide problem on nforce2
03:04.02fontenottrying lots of things to fix it
03:04.07fontenotnone working
03:04.17sorphinah
03:20.24fontenotwhoo-hoo
03:20.31fontenotalan cox knows about my problem
03:20.39TomWargh! this luban guy puts a patch up for the webpal so you can use the IR keyboard and it won't compile.
03:20.44fontenot"Yep. I'll apply the obvious fix if Vojtech doesn't. Its on the known list"
03:22.28fontenotmaybe I'll pass the time by playing with xfree 4.3.0
03:22.34sorphinheh
03:23.24MonMothasorphin: on the up-side, this thing may have a lot of hardware, but the software should be pretty easy
03:24.05MonMothasend command (EPP address cycle), send data, monitor for result if applicable (the device will ACK immediately, but for flash erase operations, you have to monitor in software, using the menthod of your choosing)
03:24.16MonMothaBSY/RDY is connected to an input if the chip has it
03:28.05sorphinit does
03:28.21MonMothayes, but this thing can burn other types of programmable ROMs too (EEPROMs and PROMs)
03:28.22sorphinthat's why tomw wired this red wire to one of the simm pins
03:28.36sorphinso his programmer would see bsy/rdy
03:28.54MonMothait even does the A9->12V thing for identifying the manufactuer of EPROMs if you want it to (or you can simplify the design by not including it)
03:29.08MonMothamind should also be able to engage the sector protection feature of the ROM
03:29.21MonMothayou have to be able to put 12V on the OE# line
03:29.31sorphinnod
03:29.48fontenotmy dsl is screwing up again
03:30.23sorphinheh
03:30.24MonMothasorphin: should be very handy for people who don't have programmers
03:30.28sorphinMonMotha: nod
03:31.57MonMotha?
03:32.33MonMothasorphin: are you going to want 32bit access support or will 16 do (please don't say you want 32...that would require me changing my design quite a bit as I'm out of lines :)
03:32.51MonMothawell, not really...
03:32.58MonMothaI guess I could grab one more line off the decoder
03:33.16sorphini won't need more than what's needed to flash 1 chip, so..
03:33.36MonMothathat would be 16 bit
03:33.40MonMothasome webpals come with 2MB roms
03:33.46MonMotharunning in 32 bit mode
03:34.20sorphini know
03:34.24sorphinneither of mine do
03:34.30MonMothanone of mine do either
03:34.35MonMothaI gather they were fairly rare
03:35.34MonMothathough I have thought about "upgrading" one of mine, though I'd probably make a custom SIMM, grab a few more address lines, and put like 4MB on it, 16 bits wide to keep thigns simple (because of the way you have to put the ps7500 in 32 bit mode would require some extensive modifications to things like start.S in blob)
03:35.45MonMothahum, I should probably work on my BLOB port some to
03:35.46MonMothao
03:36.07fileMonMotha: how goes it btw
03:36.22sorphinnod
03:36.31MonMothafile: fine...
03:36.38fileMonMotha: I meant the portng
03:36.42fileer porting
03:36.44MonMothaoh, of blob?
03:36.48fileyes'
03:37.03MonMothanot really sure...I think I have basic startup code (16 bit roms only) and memory setup for the clps7500
03:37.28MonMothahowever, I have yet to integrate it into the BLOB build routine well (not to mention that blob CVS seems otherwise broken currently, so it won't compile anwyay)
03:37.43MonMothaand I've almost surely made a mistake somewhere as this is the first time I've ever done anythign in assembly :)
03:38.00sorphinMonMotha: file doesn't even have a webpal/tux, so.. :P
03:38.04MonMothaheh
03:38.10MonMothablob runs on the tux
03:38.13MonMotharuns quite well in fact
03:38.24MonMothathough I've thought of messing with the memory timings as I gather it's not fully optmized
03:38.46MonMothais there an easy way to detect EDO vs. FP memory?
03:39.00MonMothaI have a 16MB fast page SIMM, but the webpal ships with EDO
03:39.25sorphinheh
03:39.37MonMotha(I have two 16 meggers laying around, figured I might as well use them)
03:39.40sorphinworked fine regardless
03:39.43MonMothaI had them in my IPX, but it hated me :)
03:39.55MonMothaso my IPX is down to 24MB of RAM
03:39.56sorphinmy 16s came from my classic
03:39.58MonMothaused to ahve like 56
03:40.03sorphinwork fine
03:40.12MonMothathese are cheapy ones, not parity
03:40.16MonMothaI gather that the IPX needs parity
03:40.22sorphinjust try them anyways :P
03:40.31sorphinas worst they just won't work :P
03:40.33MonMothaI did, segfaults abound on my IPX
03:40.39sorphinno
03:40.42sorphini mean on the webpal ;p
03:41.41MonMothaoh
03:50.46sorphinthe busyboy returns
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03:56.11fontenotibot: test
03:56.15KICK doughecka
03:58.47sorphinheh
04:14.46MonMothahum, think I could make a K6-2/500 (2.0Vcore) work with 2.1V?
04:14.53MonMothaa little extra cooling should do I'm betting
04:17.19sorphindunno
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15:00.39filegreetings
15:02.55ade|indylo folks
15:03.57ade|indyquick question: which lines in a null modem cable are really used and which are useful but not needed?
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19:02.25MonMothaade|indy: in theory you can get by with just ground->ground, txd->rxd, and rxd->txd
19:02.28MonMothabut then you'll have no flow control
19:02.54MonMothaif you KNOW the machines are on the same ground, you may even be able to drop the ground (but I certainly wouldn't reccomend that)
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