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 > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > All best, Andy C.
