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Re: 500d development
« Reply #1270 on: 27 / May / 2011, 10:31:46 »
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I didn't mean to criticize you at all Coutts.  It's exactly that stability that I've been working on.  My previous post about Porting is not referring to your development efforts at all, you have misunderstood.  I'm very happy with your efforts!

FYI Jamez, my build includes all of the features you listed except one: Major instability!  No offense to Coutts.
« Last Edit: 27 / May / 2011, 11:02:36 by sbright33 »

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Re: 500d development
« Reply #1271 on: 27 / May / 2011, 10:44:47 »
picture of focus peaking being offset, james says this doesn't happen for him :o

it's just focus peaking, so i'm gonna have to look in zebra.c


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Re: 500d development
« Reply #1272 on: 27 / May / 2011, 11:02:07 »
@coutts : im sending you my email, if you want i can try your build and tell you if the focus peaking is offset or not on my camera.

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Re: 500d development
« Reply #1273 on: 27 / May / 2011, 11:20:11 »
hmmm ive just tested this again, and can report the same Coutts (now I can see what your refering to, I thought you were referring to something else). It wasnt like this in the previous build im pretty sure, so prob worth comparing the 2 files, maybe the pitch is wrong?

Edit: Alex informs me its not the pitch thats wrong
« Last Edit: 27 / May / 2011, 11:31:04 by Jamez »
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Re: 500d development
« Reply #1274 on: 27 / May / 2011, 11:39:01 »
It's obvious, you can see it by looking.

Re: 500d development
« Reply #1275 on: 27 / May / 2011, 12:25:56 »
Hi guys,

I've been playing with ML some time ago (very early alpha builds). I've done some memory dumps to figure out some initial VRAM addresses back then. One day, when making a memory dump, ML stopped booting and  I can't get it to boot ever since. The standard Canon stuff is still fine, though.

Possible cause:
Around that time, I was performing memory dumps in the 0x4 segment (on a very alpha code base). I also did repeated two succesive series of dumps from 0x0 to 0x4, though that would crash the camera often midway.
I also tried some dumps of the higher segments (all the way up to 0xF). The segments above 0xC (iirc) seemed very slow to dump (mapped to (slow?) rom?) and caused very frequent crashes. I never really tried  dumping those again, but I believe that's about the time the problem started, so it may be related.
If I recall correctly, those crashes involved that the camera would stop dumping to the card midway dump (write LED of sdcard turned off) and I could not turn the camera off by flicking the on/off switch, so had to pull out battery.
I may have gotten some err:xx as well, don't remember exactly.

I've been unable to lead any autoexec.bin file since.


Tried remedies:
Obviously, I made sure the card was bootable, and double checked by dumping and examining the first sectors of the sdcard.
I've tried using churchin's .fir file from the opening post to set and unset/set the boot flag multiple times, without succes.
I've tried reflashing the stock Canon firmware and re-installing ML, without succes.

Peculiarity:
If I recall correctly, using Churchin's .fir to set the boot flag is supposed to crash the camera. The install guide explicitly says to take out the battery when the write LED goes off.
When installing ML for the first time, that .fir file did indeed crash the cam iirc, in the way that flicking the on/off switch did not turn the camera off and I needed to take out the battery.
If I use the .fir file now, I can just turn of the camera normally afterward. It turns of cleanly and I get the "sensor clearing" picture.
This makes me think it's somehow not setting the actual flag.

Another thing:
Trying to disable the bootflag from the config file by adding the line:
magic.disable_bootdiskf = 1
to the file magiclantern.cfg (and I've also tried magic.cfg, as they both seem to be mentioned here and there) still makes the .fir display "Set bootflag". Is this normal, even if you want to unset it?


Questions:
1) Has anyone ever had something similar happen and/or has a fix?
2) For the .fir file from churchin at the opening post of this thread: if you set the config file to unset the bootflag, is it supposed to show something different then "Set bootflag" on the screen?
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Re: 500d development
« Reply #1276 on: 27 / May / 2011, 12:37:02 »
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Re: 500d development
« Reply #1277 on: 27 / May / 2011, 12:56:26 »
I had a similar problem when I was doing memory dumps with the latest build 1.50.  Look I mentioned a build number!  The only solution I could find was to return the camera to Canon under warranty.  If you're doubtful, James, I have the receipt.  

Be careful Developers!  Anyone USING a popular build should not worry about this.

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If you want to verify my personal integrity and honesty I offer you my password to this account.
There in my Inbox you will see all the BS I have to put up with daily.
A bunch of children calling each other names!!!
« Last Edit: 27 / May / 2011, 19:47:22 by sbright33 »

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Re: 500d development
« Reply #1278 on: 27 / May / 2011, 14:52:50 »
after playing around with things for about an hour or so, I finally figured out how to catch the AV button event :) so I set the AV button as the button to center the LV AF frame.

https://bitbucket.org/alins/magic-lantern-for-500d/changeset/8a6a84a4cda6
« Last Edit: 27 / May / 2011, 14:58:41 by Coutts »
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Re: 500d development
« Reply #1279 on: 27 / May / 2011, 15:17:55 »
after playing around with things for about an hour or so, I finally figured out how to catch the AV button event :) so I set the AV button as the button to center the LV AF frame.

https://bitbucket.org/alins/magic-lantern-for-500d/changeset/8a6a84a4cda6

Yeah Yeah Yeah, stop showing off mr smarty, lol, nice find, great job figuring that one out!!!

 

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