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Efficient Viewing of the Northern Lights
For best viewing of the Northern Lights installation and testing, download an RTSP-compatible client (e.g., VLC at http://www.videolan.org) and connect to rtsp:spare1-29.cs.purdue.edu/mpeg4/media.amp.
====== Collected (but Rough) Documentation ======
From Mike Miller, 3/3/08…
====== Expedient for Testing/Running the Northern Lights======
Northern Lights information from Zach Tatlock, 1/12/08…
I'm attaching a hacked way to drive the boards from the current new NL.
It is ugly, but uses the same mechanism as the old NL, so will work
modulo changes that Mike has made to hardware.
As I left things, all you should need to do (to run to old development
board) is attach the parallel port to a PC and then:
$ cd hack_nl/
$ vim Main.java # change the size of Pat.SIZE to the # of transformers
$ make
$ ./gen_c_driver trial.nl
$ sudo ./C_DRIVER/drive
Note that you might have to find the correct “io.h” to include
(in C_DRIVER/HEADER). On my Ubuntu system, it's “sys/io.h”. On my old Slackware
box it's “asm/io.h”.