The upcoming 3.0 version will have much better serial code (i.e., Mark's, rather than mine) but yes, it may still be vulnerable to the Windows serial-mouse lameness. I'm not sure why the FIFO buffer size should have mattered, though. If any other information on that comes to light, I'd be curious to hear about it.
-- john, KE5FX > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on > Behalf Of David Bengtson > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 2:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Serial receive Error 0x2 > > > Hi All > > I finally managed to get some time to figure this out. I was using a > usb-serial interface with the FTDI chipset, and I had to tweak two > parameters to get it working. First, I had to tell the driver that I > didn't have a serial mouse (Serial enumnerator checkbox) and the > second thing was to tweak the serial buffer. It was set to 4k, which > was too large. I changed that to 1k, and it's been running for ~ 20 > hours happily. > > Dave > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:53 PM, David Bengtson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All: > > > > I'm running what I believe to be the latest version of Lady Heather on > > a Windows XP laptop. I'm using a USB-Serial interface, and I'm getting > > this error after about 15 to 20 minutes of data taking. I haven't seen > > any recent discussion on this problem, I'm curious to know if anyone > > else has seen this, and if they've figured it out. Once the error > > message shows up, I quit out and restart the app, and it works fine. > > I'm starting it with a shortcut "C:\Program > > Files\Heather\heather.exe" /7 to point it at the com7 serial porty. > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Dave > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
