Re: [TiLP-devel] grey link cable trouble

[Tijl C. <ti...@ul...>]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:13:36 +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote:

> I've ran into a problem with the grey serial cable on FreeBSD.
> Apparently it got introduced with the switch to gtk2, because if I run
> the latest versions (cables 3.7.7, files 0.5.7, calcs 4.4.7-4.5.1)
> there's no problem in gtk12 mode (with tilp 6.09), but there is in the
> gtk2 version (with tilp 6.52-6.68).
> 
> Because there's no difference between the glib12 and glib2
> versions of lcalcs, it appears to be with tilp itself. However, I
> don't know the code that good and a lot has changed between 6.09 and
> 6.52, so does anybody have an idea what might be the problem?
> 
> A little bit more in detail, most of the time I get a timeout error
> while it's receiving the first byte, so sending seems to work and the
> calc also turns on. Very rarely it all does work properly, but I
> haven't found a way to reproduce that.
> 
> Any clue?
> 
> btw, who owns the project now roms left?

I got it working again, but I don't have a nice solution yet. What I did
is setting VMIN=1 en VTIME=0 in tig_open() in libticables, so it waits
indefinitely for a byte to read. VMIN=0 and VTIME=15 (normal values)
doesn't work and gives a timeout error almost immediately as in, it
doesn't wait 1,5 seconds. The strange thing is that the gtk1version
still works flawlessly without any of these modifications.
What's going on here? Are Linux versions affected too?