Re: looks like I need an hid interface
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 07:59:19PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 19 April 2021 14:24:09 deloptes wrote:
>
> > Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > A warning to others, a "sudo apt install avrdude" did a just barely
> > > announced reboot of my machine, and it has taken me nomonally half
> > > an hour to restore everything that had x jerked out from under it.
> > > It killed x before it announced it on a text screen. The reboot was,
> > > shall we say, messy. No /var/run/locks were removed, so kmail had a
> > > cow when it was restarted.
> > >
> > > That was on my stretch system, it did not repeat on a buster
> > > install. But no TDE is in use there either.
> >
> > You've still not updated this stretch of yours - shame on you!
> >
> Well, I did buy some 1/2T samsung SSD's a week ago, so I am making
> progress. Breaking in one of them in another machine right now. Working
> well in fact. Makes an elderly Dell act like the latest hardware.
>
> How soon is bulleye going live?
>
Call is out for the final release to be in late May - 22nd, maybe? [amacater
is on the Debian images team].
The bullseye-RC1 iso files are out: Bullseye is frozen so there aren't
many files moving at the moment - now would be quite a good time to try
an installation - and tell folks how it went.
> > > This device, a usb dongle labeled "USB ISP version 2.0" is
> > > apparently not well supported by avrdude. And unforch, the ATmel
> > > address in the man page is now re-directed to a Microchip site,
> > > ATmel I assume having since been bought by microchip, the product
> > > listing on that web page does not include the ATmega1284p, and while
> > > an option "-c usbtiny" gets a device listing that includes the
> > > ATmega1284p, this isn't a usbtiny. I am guessing from the
> > > instructions that this dongle has a memory area where the patches
> > > for marlin, the printers rs-274d driver, are kept, accessed and
> > > uploaded to the flash in the printers controller. But thats a WAG.
> > >
> > > I'll email the author by cc'ing, maybe he can help.
> > >
> > > Anybody have a better idea?
> >
> > I use mySmartUsb light (~16,-) with the avrdude and with a self
> > soldiered Atmel programmer board for ~12,-, but knowing your skills
> > and context, I am sure you need only the USB stick.
>
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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All best,
Andy C.
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