From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost.localdomain (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3559E3F87C for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:37:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (IDENT:root@lacrosse.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.154]) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2NGb3m10508 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:37:03 -0500 Received: (from mail@localhost) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) id g2NGb3r18258 for blinux-list@listman.redhat.com; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:37:03 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g2NGb3i18254 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:37:03 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g2NGb3m10504 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:37:03 -0500 Received: from front2.chartermi.net (24.213.60.124.up.mi.chartermi.net [24.213.60.124]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g2NGYqu21308 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:34:53 -0500 Received: from [24.196.69.180] (HELO maranatha.chartermi.net) by front2.chartermi.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.3) with ESMTP id 75616182; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:37:01 -0500 Received: from chomiak (helo=localhost) by maranatha.chartermi.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16ooe8-00008z-00; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:45:36 -0600 Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:45:36 -0600 (CST) From: Cheryl Homiak To: "blinux-list@redhat.com" Cc: dave@mielke.cc Subject: dosemu and com port problem resolved Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Loop: blinux-list@redhat.com Sender: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I finally am able to use serial ports with dosemu; there is a bug in the stable version that won't allow lock files to be created without suid root. I solved this by obtaining and compiling the 1.1.3 version (development) from www.dosemu.org. For any interested debian users, I understand that the maintainer of the package has fixed the bug in our 1.0.2.1--whatever version and the upgrade will be out shortly. Pcisk and megadots both work with dosemu; you need to put in the number of kilobytes for dpmi in the dosemu.conf for megadots to work. The one catch turns out to be that brltty is stopped dead in its tracks, I assume during the initialization process when starting dosemu. This does not happen with speakup, however; speakup keeps going right to the dos prompt and beyond. It isn't probably just the piece of equipment being used, as I was using the same equipment for brltty and speakup. However, it is possible to kill brltty before entering dosemu and then start up a DOS speech screen reader on the same equipment. It is also possible simply not to include the serial port on which brltty is running in your dosemu.conf file. In that case, brltty keeps running happily on the dosemu console as well as all other consoles during the dosemu session. If one does accidentally leave brltty installed when starting dosemu, brltty dies but can be restarted again on exiting dosemu with a restart command (chord-r with braillelite), so apparently brltty isn't completely killed. In fact if you assume it was killed and type 'brltty" after exiting dosemu, you will probably be dealing with more than one brltty! At any rate, I'm happy to have access to the serial ports under dosemu now. thanks to all who helped.