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xtdigvid software question - Page 2

vishnu
From Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
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Wrote the following at Nov. 27, 2012, 8:25 a.m...
So much for the hope that these stupid things might be COTS... :evil:
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recondas
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Wrote the following at Nov. 27, 2012, 8:52 a.m...
vishnu wrote: So much for the hope that these stupid things might be COTS... :evil:

If we can get the pin outs it still might be possible to make a set.

How'd the power-on tests go?
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vishnu
From Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
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Wrote the following at Nov. 27, 2012, 9:48 a.m...
recondas wrote: How'd the power-on tests go?
Well I tossed the joint like an FBI agent but couldn't find my RS232 cable; so I will have to pick one up at Microcenter on my way home and do it tonight... :|
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vishnu
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Wrote the following at Nov. 28, 2012, 7:07 a.m...
This is odd; I looked at the wiki before my shopping excursion to buy a new serial cable, and it said to use a NULL modem, which I already had, so I skipped going shopping and used that, but found it couldn't send any keyboard commands through to the VBOB. :?: :shock: :evil: This was using minicom 9600 8N1... :cry:

But the good news is that the diagnostics that ran automagically looked exactly the same as those posted earlier by Neko, so that at least is promising. I'll try a DB9 cable tonight and see if I can't get the keyboard through to test the VBOB RAM... :?
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PymbleSoftware
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Wrote the following at Nov. 28, 2012, 12:31 p.m...
vishnu wrote: This is odd; I looked at the wiki before my shopping excursion to buy a new serial cable, and it said to use a NULL modem, which I already had, so I skipped going shopping and used that, but found it couldn't send any keyboard commands through to the VBOB. :?: :shock: :evil: This was using minicom 9600 8N1... :cry:

But the good news is that the diagnostics that ran automagically looked exactly the same as those posted earlier by Neko, so that at least is promising. I'll try a DB9 cable tonight and see if I can't get the keyboard through to test the VBOB RAM... :?



If the wiki is wrong fix it.

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vishnu
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Wrote the following at Nov. 28, 2012, 1:11 p.m...
PymbleSoftware wrote:
vishnu wrote: This is odd; I looked at the wiki before my shopping excursion to buy a new serial cable, and it said to use a NULL modem, which I already had, so I skipped going shopping and used that, but found it couldn't send any keyboard commands through to the VBOB. :?: :shock: :evil: This was using minicom 9600 8N1... :cry:

But the good news is that the diagnostics that ran automagically looked exactly the same as those posted earlier by Neko, so that at least is promising. I'll try a DB9 cable tonight and see if I can't get the keyboard through to test the VBOB RAM... :?



If the wiki is wrong fix it.

R.

Well it's the old "...hit ESC to halt the boot process and go to the diagnostics menu," and I'm hitting the ESC button like a mad fool but the VBOB either never sees it or ignores it, who knows why. So I rebooted the thing a dozen times and tried META-ESC, ALT-ESC (which gets captured by the window manager), CTRL-ESC, CTRL-META-RT BUTTON-ESC, etc., etc., all of which were summarily ignored. This was all from Linux using minicom; I'll try it from my Octane tonight, using cu, which is the way it's detailed in the wiki...
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