Do you want to look at the card database? (y/n). Answer
Radeon card. Finish the configuration process.
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Do you want to look at the card database? (y/n). Answer
Radeon card. Finish the configuration process.
++ +Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA +Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies +of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. +
+ ++ Copyright (c) YEAR YOUR NAME. + Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document + under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 + or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; + with the Invariant Sections being LIST THEIR TITLES, with the + Front-Cover Texts being LIST, and with the Back-Cover Texts being LIST. + A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU + Free Documentation License". +
Check the file permissions on this port with "ls -l /dev/ttyS?"_
If you own the ttyS? then you need read and write permissions: crw
with the c (Character device) in col. 1. It you don't own it then it
-should show rw- in cols. 8 & 9 which means that everyone has read and
-write permission on it. Use "chmod" to change permissions. There are
-more complicated ways to get access like belonging to a "group" that
-has group permission.
+will work for you if it shows rw- in cols. 8 & 9 which means that
+everyone has read and write permission on it. Use "chmod" to change
+permissions. There are more complicated (and secure) ways to get
+access like belonging to a "group" that has group permission. Some
+programs change the permissions when they run but restore them when
+the program exists normally. But if someone pulls the plug on your
+PC it's an abnormal exit and correct permissions may not be restored.
This means that an operation requested by setserial, stty, etc.
@@ -3476,9 +3519,12 @@ in: /lib/modules/.../misc/serial.o.
When a port is "opened" by a program a lockfile is created in
/var/lock/. Wrong permissions for the lock directory will not allow a
lockfile to be created there. Use "ls -ld /var/lock" to see if the
-permissions are OK: usually rwx for everyone (repeated 3 times). If
-it's wrong, use "chmod" to fix it. Of course, if there is no "lock"
-directory no lockfile can be created there. For more info on
+permissions are OK. Giving rwx permissions for the root owner and the
+group should work, provided that the users that need to dialout belong
+to that group. Others should have r-x permission. Even with this
+scheme, there may be a security risk. Use "chmod" to change
+permissions and "chgrp" to change groups. Of course, if there is no
+"lock" directory no lockfile can be created there. For more info on
lockfiles see
@@ -3501,10 +3547,19 @@ have been automatically removed if it contained a stale process id
supposedly busy (in use) or that a resource it needs (such as an IRQ)
is supposedly being used by another device and can't be shared.
This message is easy to understand if it only means that the device is
-busy (in use). But it often means that a needed resource is already
+busy (in use). But it sometimes means that a needed resource is already
in use (busy). What makes it even more confusing is that in some cases
neither the device nor the resources that it needs are actually
-"busy".
+"busy".
+
+In olden days, if a PC was shutdown by just turning off the power, a
+bogus lockfile might remain and then later on one would get this bogus
+message and not be able to use the serial port. Software today is
+supposed to automatically remove such bogus lockfiles, but as of 2003
+there is still a problem with the "wvdial" dialer program related to
+lockfiles. If wvdial can't create a lockfile because it doesn't have
+write permission in the /var/lock/ directory, you will see this
+erroneous message.
The following example is where interrupts can't be shared (at least
one of the interrupts is on the ISA bus). The ``resource busy'' part
@@ -3611,6 +3666,14 @@ troubleshooting:
+ Perhaps a baud mismatch. If one port sends at twice the speed that
+the other port is set to receive, then every two characters sent will
+be recieved as one character. The bits of this received character
+will be a sample of every other bit of the two characters sent, so it
+will be wrong. Also, only half the characters sent seem to get
+received. A worse mismatch will produce even worse results.
+