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matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10315
Posted: 08:42am 25 Mar 2018
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This suggests there is a program "autorunning".
Hold down the ! key and press reset on the PCB. You should get a message that the firmware is resetting options and that will clear anything left running. Otherwise it sounds like a USB issue on the PC.
palcal Guru Joined: 12/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1993
Posted: 08:45am 25 Mar 2018
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Yes there was a program "autorunning". Thanks for that but that does not apply to the MM or MM+ does it? Paul."It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all"
matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10315
Posted: 09:12am 25 Mar 2018
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Yes, exactly the same
mschmalenbach Newbie Joined: 19/02/2018 Location: United StatesPosts: 9
Posted: 02:23pm 25 Mar 2018
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Hi Phil
D'Oh!
I'd forgotten the last thing we did was have autorun on!!
I sent a CTRL-C and it's now all peachy over Tera Term on my windows laptop!
I've also gotten my PS2 keyboard recognised.
I just can't get vga to work. When I command "option lcdpanel vga" I get an error saying it's already configured.
I've tried it on 2 different monitors, and neither of them is seeing a VGA signal.
I've also done "option lcdpanel noconsole."
Still no joy.
I know I'm missing something simple, but for the life of me I can't think what!
Cheers
Martin
mschmalenbach Newbie Joined: 19/02/2018 Location: United StatesPosts: 9
Posted: 02:33pm 25 Mar 2018
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One more thing - I got my xmas pressie to myself, a Rigol 4 channel 100MHz digital storage scope out - I'm not seeing any video signals at all on the VGA connector.
So clearly I'm missing a command somewhere!
Cheers
Martin
matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10315
Posted: 02:36pm 25 Mar 2018
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Based on Phil's note above
So
OPTION LCDPANEL DISABLE
then
OPTION LCDPANEL VGA
Personally I think it is best to do a full reset as in my post above and start from a clean setup.
Type OPTION LIST
to see what is set at the momentEdited by matherp 2018-03-27
mschmalenbach Newbie Joined: 19/02/2018 Location: United StatesPosts: 9
Posted: 02:43pm 25 Mar 2018
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When checking mm.vres and mm.hres I get 480 and 800 respectively - ideal for one of those bigger lCD panels, but NOT VGA resolution!
mschmalenbach Newbie Joined: 19/02/2018 Location: United StatesPosts: 9
Posted: 02:45pm 25 Mar 2018
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option list gives the following...
OPTION CPU 252 OPTION LCDPANEL SSD1963_5, LANDSCAPE,, 142 OPTION TOUCH 118, 121, 103 OPTION KEYBOARD US OPTION USBKEYBOARD UK OPTION SDCARD 93, 94 OPTION RTC 15, 16 OPTION HEARTBEAT ON
mschmalenbach Newbie Joined: 19/02/2018 Location: United StatesPosts: 9
Posted: 02:56pm 25 Mar 2018
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OK - the VGA option is now running after disabling the LCD panel.
My scope shows a reasonable VGA signal now on the VGA connector, but none of the 3 monitors I have will display the VGA image although now they do all recognise there is a signal there - they didn't do that before.
One monitor reports a 640x480 display, tries to auto adjust to display it, but comes up with a blank display. :(
EDIT: this is after a hard reset, which would at least display the (c) message...Edited by mschmalenbach 2018-03-27
mschmalenbach Newbie Joined: 19/02/2018 Location: United StatesPosts: 9
Posted: 03:04pm 25 Mar 2018
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UPDATE
I decided to just run the resident program, which is the spinning cube...
And up came the display - a spinning cube, in green, very smooth!
So, do I just need to enable console output to the VGA?
UPDATE 2: It's all running fine now. I have console & running display on all 3 monitors in turn, and PS2 keyboard input.
Nice. It's like being back in the 80s with my old BBC or C-64. But at 252 MHz!!Edited by mschmalenbach 2018-03-27
matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10315
Posted: 04:17pm 25 Mar 2018
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Glad it is all working
Please disable whichever keyboard you are not using. This is WW'S testing configuration and you should have either/or not both. Also if you are using VGA then disable touch.Edited by matherp 2018-03-27
palcal Guru Joined: 12/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1993
Posted: 08:45pm 25 Mar 2018
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The problem with my 144 pin MMX was that there was a program autorunning BUT it had an error in it, so was stopping with an error message and so CTRL-C would not work. I don't know what Matherp meant when he said...
I have always used CTRL-C to break into an Autorunning program. Paul."It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all"
matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10315
Posted: 09:42pm 25 Mar 2018
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It is impossible to diagnose what if anything is wrong based on the information you are giving. If I create a program with an error in it and "autorun" it, it is comes back to the command prompt exactly as expected. If you create a program that corrupts the MM to the extent that MMBasic fails and then autorun it then it will need a full reset to recover and, as we have seen in other threads, this can sometimes even mean reflashing the chip (MM2 and MM+ as well as MMX)
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