Re: [linuxdc-dev] Looking to help out

[Adrian M. <ad...@mc...>]

Subject: Re: [linuxdc-dev] Looking to help out
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:44:15 +0100
From: Adrian McMenamin <ad...@mc...>
To: "Mike Barnett" <mik...@ho...>

On Monday 14 Oct 2002 5:21 pm, Mike Barnett wrote:
> Hi
>     I'm just getting started with my dreamcast.  I've built both Bill's
> distribution as well as the Debian port.  Haven't been able to get a build
> from scratch to boot yet, it just resets my DC after the Sega splash
> screen.  I've seen messages in the archives where other's have had the same
> problem.  Once I get that solved, I'll be on my way to doing something
> productive.

Have you got a BBA or a coders' cable? One or the other is pretty much
essential if you are going to do something other than press coasters for the
rest of your life.

>     So, what's a productive thing to do to help the cause?  I'm a good
> embedded systems developer with lots of years under my belt, but am new at
> this Linux stuff.  I would like to work on a driver project (or a part of
> one) that's not too difficult.  Anyone have suggestions as to where I can
> lend a hand once I get a good build environment up and running?

Well, the main next thing is video, I suppose. Video support isn't brill at
the moment and much much more could be done - but I am not sure that is a
good place to start :->

I have always wanted a UK keyboard driver :-> There is broken microphone code
and only partially working puru puru pack code in the cvs courtesy of yours
truly - they could be fixed.

Or you could write code for the vmu/vms screen.

Adrian

> -Mike

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