Re: Hptalx is buggy once calculator is plugged and linked
On Sat, 08 May 2010 22:18:05 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Camaleón writes:
>
>> Can you see the "Awaiting Server Cmd." message in calculator's display?
> Pointing this out is a good thing, but I had already tested this.
> Actually, since I installed many programs in Spanish, my calculator is
> (to my dismay) in Spanish, and I get, by pressing and holding right
> shift and by pressing the right arrow, on the calculator,
>
> ==
> Espero comand.Servidor
> ==
>
> It looks like
>
> ==
> Awaiting Server Cmd.
> ==
Ah, in Spanish. Curious :-). Yes, so it translates.
> and, evidently, doing *another* combination of keys gives me a text with
> the Xmodem server.
>
> Thus, what I am doing is right.
O.k.
>> Port "100"? What kind of port nomenclature is that? :-?
> I do not know. I also wondered.
>
>> I would expect "/dev/ttyUSB0" for an USB device or "/dev/ttyS0" for the
>> first rs-232 port...
> Me too.
>
>> I think the application is crashing because cannot establish a
>> connection with the device.
> Such a (trivial, as habitual) case should have been handled by the
> developers, shouldn't it?
Yes... I would report. But also take a look into this:
Connect HP 50g (or HP 49g+) to a Linux Box with hptalx
http://bleedux.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/connect-hp-50g-to-a-linux-box-with-hptalx/
And see if that helps. It seems to be written for ArchLinux (another
linux distribution) but it points some interesting things that you can
check.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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