I’m giving this another try and want to leave some notes to my future self so I don’t break it again.
To upload the firmware, I need to use the Apple laptop. The Purism laptop somehow doesn’t do this correctly is what my old notes say. So I mailed myself the blob.
To build the blob, use `make atreus:workman PCBDOWN=yes` in the `qmk_firmware` working directory. The PCBDOWN option is required because I have the old layout.
To but the keyboard in *reset* mode when everything is borked, open it up and connect two pins right of the middle: number 6 with the lone number 7. The result is a slow pulsing yellow LED that lights up.
To check whether it’s working, check for new devices in a loop. Here’s a simple example:
ls /dev > /tmp/off for n in $(seq 3600); do ls /dev > /tmp/on; diff /tmp/off /tmp/on; sleep 1; done
On my system, I’m looking for `cu.usbmodem411`.
When it appears, I have 8s to run the following command:
avrdude -p atmega32u4 -c avr109 -U flash:w:atreus_workman.hex -P /dev/cu.usbmodem411
Sadly, it doesn’t quite work as expected: the modifiers were borked:
1. the key I assigned KC_LGUI acts as Control key
2. the key I assigned KC_LCTR acts as Meta key
3. the key I assigned KC_LALT acts as GUI key
The solution was to quickly flash an extra hex file, then re-flash my own. Here’s the explanation by user drashna:
The reason that this has happened is that a new block is being used for the EEPROM. Unfortunately, because it’s a block that wasn’t used previously, it has not been zeroed out properly, so it has a random value. This means that the Ctrl-GUI swap may be enabled, because the bit used for it was on, randomly.
Alright! With this done, I think my workman branch is based on the current upstream master and it works.
If your Control and Meta keys are still swapped, then you have an old A-STAR board like I do and the `PCBDOWN=true` option doesn’t quite work as intended. There’s a patch by @technomancy out that I submitted. It will get fixed. Anyway. If you feel strongly about it, use the workman_fix branch which simply swaps the two keys. 😆
In any case, keymap layout files are available.
#Atreus #Workman #Keyboard
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All the patches have been merged! Yay. 🙂
– Alex Schroeder 2019-09-02 21:10 UTC
