| 10:18:39 | erikm | looks for BZFlag |
| 13:30:14 | skanda | hai erik |
| 14:12:06 | erikm | returns |
| 15:03:49 | sammy_wms | ha llo |
| 15:05:29 | erikm | hello, guys |
| 15:07:17 | prpplague | morning/evening erikm |
| 15:07:59 | prpplague | erikm: breaking any good code today? you know a programmers job isn't done until he/she breaks at least one line of code a day... |
| 15:08:58 | erikm | well, I'm looking at BZFlags jffs2 reimplementation, and I have rmk's GPL'ed bootp/tftp loader |
| 15:09:33 | erikm | oh, and there is seletz pcmcia+ide code |
| 15:09:48 | prpplague | hmm, sounds like you guys have been busy |
| 15:11:07 | prpplague | hmm andersee was supose to send me quote, no mail |
| 15:11:09 | erikm | yeah, I'd say so |
| 15:11:25 | erikm | oh, and BZFlag contributed a new port to blob |
| 15:12:45 | prpplague | doh, i'm starting to feel a little slow, all i've done for the last 12 days is deal with boring raid |
| 15:19:59 | prpplague | guess i'll have to put in an all weekender to get caught up |
| 15:21:57 | erikm | it's not that large. |
| 15:22:39 | erikm | goes to shop |
| 16:12:16 | erikm | returns |
| 16:12:41 | prpplague | erikm: buy any thing good? |
| 16:13:12 | erikm | wire for the handset of my grandma's phone |
| 16:13:23 | prpplague | ohh |
| 16:13:33 | erikm | she managed to break it by curling it in funny ways :) |
| 16:13:38 | prpplague | lol |
| 16:13:56 | prpplague | your so sweet fixing your grannies phone |
| 16:13:58 | prpplague | lol |
| 16:14:21 | erikm | heh, I conditioned her to call me *first* to repair electrical stuff |
| 16:14:32 | prpplague | cool |
| 16:14:55 | prpplague | my familiar only calls after things are really fscked |
| 16:14:57 | erikm | otherwise she'll ask my uncle who usually makes the situation worst |
| 16:15:05 | erikm | worse, I mean |
| 16:15:42 | erikm | and after he broke it, I can usually try to glue the pieces together :( |
| 16:16:30 | prpplague | lol |
| 16:40:36 | prpplague | erikm: does jdb ever do irc? |
| 16:42:48 | prpplague | erikm: have you done any lcd interfacing before? |
| 16:43:23 | erikm | prpplague: jdb doesn't do irc |
| 16:43:44 | erikm | prpplague: the lart has an LCD interface, we've connected three kinds of LCD |
| 16:44:10 | prpplague | http://www.earthlcd.com/stn78.htm |
| 16:44:28 | prpplague | i've ordered some of those |
| 16:44:43 | prpplague | this will be my first attempt at lcd interfacing |
| 16:44:55 | prpplague | it seems a little daunting |
| 16:45:37 | erikm | it's very easy when you have the data sheets, especially with rmk's new LCD driver |
| 16:51:46 | prpplague | erikm: i concerned about the physical electronics connections, i'm not an EE expert so it make take me a while |
| 16:52:04 | prpplague | never has gotten the hang of where to put pullup resistors |
| 16:52:24 | erikm | the hardes part is getting the flatcable connector. farnell has a nice connector that you can just cut into the right shape |
| 16:52:30 | erikm | (www.farnell.com) |
| 16:52:47 | prpplague | thanks |
| 16:58:07 | prpplague | man the LART looks like a better board every day |
| 16:58:25 | prpplague | the more i read and learn, i can really appreciate your work |
| 16:59:02 | erikm | there went a lot of thinking and discussion into the design |
| 17:00:25 | erikm | we started thinking about it in september 1998 during a short trip after a conference in south africa. it was at an italian restaurant in cape town :) |
| 17:07:46 | prpplague | love those kinda brain storms sessions |
| 17:08:16 | erikm | pity I don't have the napkins with the initial design anymore :) |
| 17:09:09 | prpplague | lol |
| 17:09:58 | prpplague | erikm: i still have my original design of a one digit by one digit calculator using relays that i build in the 6th grade |
| 17:10:53 | erikm | heh :) |
| 17:10:54 | prpplague | of course thats not on the same level as the LART, but my wife gets a kick out of it |
| 17:10:58 | erikm | ok. /me goes skating |
| 17:11:02 | prpplague | later |
| 17:11:03 | erikm | see you guys tomorrow |
| 17:55:59 | sammy_wms | BZFlag: have some question to ask you ... |
| 17:56:53 | sammy_wms | BZFlag: now after a long fight with jffs2 file system , now my puppy can run this file system ... |
| 17:58:00 | BZFlag | nice. |
| 17:58:20 | sammy_wms | but I have soem dev question, if I use devfs , how to build the dev with /dev/fb0 ? |
| 17:59:10 | sammy_wms | because today I let some qpe run on 800 * 600 LCD panel with puppy , and it's can work , but |
| 18:00:06 | sammy_wms | something still wrong , because qpe only can read /dev/fb0 , but can't read /dev/fb/0 .. |
| 18:01:11 | sammy_wms | and when I use devfs it's will made fb or mtd or mtdblock into their director ... |
| 18:02:07 | sammy_wms | so , how to currect made the dev to be sure the /dev have fb0 in it ... |
| 18:05:05 | sammy_wms | p.s: I use busybox , and the fs made by myself , is that only copy fb0 into /dev director ? |
| 18:05:57 | sammy_wms | or I need to download the v0.5 to take a look ? |
| 18:52:45 | prpplague | sammy_wms: hey how hard was it to get your lcd panel electronics working? |
| 18:57:38 | sammy_wms | prpplague : not quite easy , because even it's can run qpe on it , but the frequency still feel not currect ... |
| 18:58:12 | sammy_wms | but I also fallow the erikm say from sa-1100fb.c to get start ... |
| 19:02:23 | prpplague | cool |
| 19:04:13 | sammy_wms | and from the log you talk to erikm , I guess now will more easy to get the lcd panel on |
| 19:06:48 | prpplague | i hope so |
| 19:11:16 | sammy_wms | night prpplague & all ... |
| 19:11:41 | prpplague | night |
| 19:12:11 | Russ|werk | night (whoever) |
| 19:12:29 | sammy_wms | Russ : is't me :) |
| 19:12:33 | prpplague | sammy is going zzzzz |
| 19:12:39 | Russ|werk | ah, night |
| 19:12:53 | sammy_wms | nite . |
| 19:13:03 | sammy_wms | z.z.z.z. |
| 19:14:09 | prpplague | Russ|werk: what's the biggest problem you've run into when interfacing a lcd on arm platform? |
| 20:33:49 | Russ|werk | prpplague: dunno, never done it |
| 20:39:38 | prpplague | Russ|werk: ohh, thought you might have done some before |