Thanks for the help.
> You probably have SL_enable_serialconsole-3.1-4.noarch installed. Try
> removing it,
This solved the problem.
Bill Lutter
ubject: Re: serial ports and SL4.4
To: WILLIAM J LUTTER
Cc: "SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@listserv.fnal.gov"
> I have SLF4.7 on my laptop and I don't have the problem you mention.
> In the days when I had 4.4 it was OK too.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, WI
If I install SL4.4 on a laptop and then try to use the /dev/ttyS0 serial port,
I find I can't control the ownership and permissions of the port. It resets
from 0660 root uucp to root root and owner rw permissions. So, I can't add a
user to the uucp group to manage usage of the serial port (thi
My apologies for having sent the email about a possible serial port UART issue.
It was clear following more fiddling around with stty sane, cooked, and raw
parameter groupings who the suspects were.
Bill Lutter
SUMMARY
I'm running SL 5.0 (Boron) with kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5. I have a 15 year
old digitizer unit with vanilla 8N1 (8 bits, no parity, one stop bit) serial
port parameters.
When I send the unit a status prompt which returns 55 characters, it comes back
using a c "read(fd,data,80) (read
I don't do a lot of work with serial ports and I know this should be an obvious
question. I've several linux boxes running SL4.7 or 5.0.
I have a digitizer connecting to a serial port via RS232 cable with trivial
settings (start bits 1, data bits 8, parity none, stop bit 1 with a variety of
Following a Feb 06 update of the sudo package to sudo.i386 1.6.9p17-3.el5_3.1 I
find that its behavior has changed for my simple usage. The linux box runs
SL5.1 (earliest SL5 as I remember).
As a separate question, how do I easily deduce which SL version I am running?
Back to sudo issue:
I
On SL4, I've had a hard drive go bad with two bad sectors. This is the first
time I've seen in /var/log/messages, errors like:
art_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device hda3) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device hda3) in start_transaction: Journal has
My apologies for restarting this thread. I thought I replied Saturday
privately and not to the list.
For the sake of accuracy, let me copy and paste a few notes commenting in
particular the path issue I had installing nvidia drivers on SL 4.2.
1. I installed from atprms repo (only time I use i
Several years ago, I've installed nvidia graphics drivers using their download
files - which require reboots. I'd prefer to use rpm packages for this and was
pleased to find for my system (SL4.1?) and kernel 2.6.9-55.0.2.EL, the legacy
driver package (I have a GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X),
nvi
I use nx/nxclient connecting SL4 and SL5 nx servers to windows XP clients
(nxclient) and to other linux PCs.To avoid the license restrsictions on the
www.nomachine.com freeware versions, (2 connections per server), I've used
freenx and an earlier www.nomachine.com release (nxclient-1.5.0-14
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