e3-hacking February 2013

e3-hacking@earth.li

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4 discussions

Re: [E3-hacking] Just got an e3 - where do I start
by Antony Stone 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

On Wednesday 27 June 2012 at 00:17, Edward Robbins wrote: > Sorry for 3rd email... > > Using a 9V supply the emailer appears to start - email and voice lights > flash, then after some time the power light comes on when I press power, > and camera light comes on when I then press video, but the LCD does not > come on. So I suspect that amstrad were being cheap in choosing such a high > voltage PSU - because they didn't want to include a backlight inverter to > boost the voltage for the LCD backlight. I thus further suspect that I can > still talk to the serial port without the full voltage input... so if I > build a cable, is there a way I can tell which PBL I have from the serial > output? See the first line of http://www.earth.li/%7Enoodles/files/delta.boot (linked from http://www.earth.li/~noodles/hardware-e3.html). Hope this helps, Antony. -- All generalisations are inaccurate. -- I'm not impossible, just highly implausible. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.

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Latest kernel / patch
by Spargue 19 Feb '15

19 Feb '15

Hi, Bought an E3 back in 2008 Not done much with it till now. Wanted to start developing on it again but the files on the ftp server are only up to 2.6.19 and muru only has upto 2.6.27. Can anyone provide me with the latest kernel patch / buildroot config files?

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em2001uk
by Anthony Griffiths 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

I've got an amstrad emailer em2001uk that is locked up and unusable - 'Hold down (email) button to restore service', so I'm here as a beginner to see what I can do about it. All I want is to use it as an ordinary phone. I know my way a bit around a linux pc if that helps. Thanks for any advice.

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Newbie help please .......
by Andy Brown 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hi, Looking for some help with an Amstrad E3 I was given recently. I'm a computer technician, but have very little experience with Linux based systems ( all our systems at work are Windows). I was looking for a small screen to fit in the Comanche helicopter cockpit simulator I'm building. All it has to do is display some web pages and change them based on about 8 different key presses. I have set up a machine with Ubuntu on it and it is talking to the E3. I followed the instructions here http://wiki.earth.li/E3_Getting_Started and everything went fine until the last "bootm" command. It did give a lot of info about the image but didn't end with a shell prompt. Instead I get a message: " kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root FS on unknown block(1,0)" I do get the "penguin" and a load of text on the E3 screen before the error, so I rekon I'm not far away. I've also tried the system from 2.6.16 here http://the.earth.li/pub/e3/ with exactly the same results. Can somebody advise what I'm doing wrong please ? Many thanks in advance, Andy

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e3-hacking February 2013