Hi Juergen, doing screen /dev/your.serial.port is usually another nice solution, as long as you are able to setup parameters of your port beforehand, using e.g. stty or other console utilities. As I quite often use 9600 8N1 for my serial console on AVR systems, and that's the boot-up default for most serial ports, I can just run screen right away. Ctrl-A Ctrl-C to quit in case you got lost ;-)
Cheers, Piotr On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Juergen Harms wrote: > I am using (Linux platform - Mandriva/Mageia) minicom as a terminal emulator > on my serial port to display data received from my Atmel microprocessors. > > I have had some problems making minicom on work a new Linux release - it > works now. But, solving the problem made me have a closer look at minicom: I > decided to explore alternatives (after patching > it works nicely, but looking a the code it does not look "sound": > curses-based, all the not-needed modem stuff, lot of dead code carried along > for systems that pratcically do not exist any more, and the configuration > looks messy - conflicts between the nice curses based dynamic configuration > of minicom and the "make-oriented" static configuration mechanism in the > shipped package). The result is overly complex and looks diffcult to mainain > - how long will it survive? > > What alternatives can other Linux users suggest? Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > AVR-chat mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-chat _______________________________________________ AVR-chat mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-chat
