Re: [TiLP-devel] grey link cable trouble

[Romain L. <rom...@wa...>]

Hi,

Tijl Coosemans a écrit :
> 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?

Could you see whether the timeout value is passed fine to the lib. It 
may explain your problem... BTW, are you 'root' ?

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