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Copying from acroread issues

It seems that if you copy from acroread and then paste into emacs then there may be problems with certain characters. Single quote marks ' (ascii 0x27) are being turned into pairs of (left and right handed) single inverted commas (unicode??). This causes havoc with shell scripts and languages such as elisp.

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Co-Design LCD screens & sshd

Not related but both are fixes for problems.

Bit 7 of the LCD not working? Turn off DMA to enable this bit. Example code to do this is in toggle_dio1.c. the relevent bit is here.

sshd not starting due to missing keys? cd into the /etc/ssh/ directory of your sd card and execute this script.

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CoDesign Update

The nios excalibur standard_32 example has been updated. If you are using this then download the new example & sdk from the module webpage.

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CPU & VHDL:

Struggling with installing the alliance toolkit?

• Copy this tarball to somewhere convenient.
• As root( or sudo) move it to /opt/.
• In a terminal & as root, cd to /opt and execute the instruction
  • tar -zxvf alliance-5.0-20070718-i386-linux-2.6.9.tar.gz
  • ( if you type tar -zxvf alli and then hit the tab key it should save you some typing)
• You should see a load of stuff rush up the screen.
• For debian like systems with /usr/local/lib/netprofile/profile, add the line(it starts dot space) . /usr/local/etc/alc_env.sh to it
• For slackware like systems do
  • cp /opt/alliance5.0/etc/alc_env.sh /etc/profile.d
• and make sure it's executable
  • chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/alc_env.sh
• this will make sure that the environment is set up correctly next time you log in.
• If you have trouble running xpat then execute the following as root (in a terminal)
  • cd /lib/
  • ln -s /usr/lib/libXm.so /usr/lib/libXm.so.3

Bloodhound

A nice animation of the Bloodhound supersonic car, including it's UWE logo!here

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CNOS & Advanced Sys. Admin.

Fixing your network interface name with udev rules. A worked example.

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