Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Andrew Partington Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Siocons under Linux Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:43:10 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: spr1-ward1-6-0-cust65.bagu.broadband.ntl.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Philippe Lorin wrote: > I'm trying to switch entirely from Windows to Linux. I found an adapted > Siocons here: > http://www.identicalsoftware.com/yaroze/ > > Has anybody tried it? I don't know much about Linux, and I think I may > have some serial port configuration to do, because the communication > between the PC and the Yaroze starts properly, but the size and address > received by the Yaroze are systematically wrong. I tried 9600 as well as > 115200 bauds. > > What makes me think it's a configuration problem is that the error is > always precisely the same (if the speed is the same)---for instance, > Siocons will say it's sending data to 80090000, but the Yaroze says it's > putting it at FF800900; or when sending data to 800A0000, it arrives at > FF800A00. > > My serial port seems to otherwise work OK (tested with a graphics > tablet, under Linux). > > Any ideas? I tried it and got the same problem as you. It also seems a bit unstable to me (running Slackware 9.0 kernel 2.4.20 here, if that makes any difference) PSComUtil and CodeWarrior work under Wine (http://www.winehq.com) if that's any help. Perhaps the Yaroze GCC will also work, but i've not tried it myself. TIMUtil/TIMTool also work. I prefer siocons (the DOS version) to PSComUtil, but i've never had it working properly under wine - then again I haven't spent much time trying to make it work, and wine has been updated since then. If you decide to build Wine from source, i've not had much luck with getting 0.9.1 to build, but 0.9 builds OK for me, you might have better luck though. You can find 0.9 here: http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/ (The main site only seems to point to 0.9.1) There are a few prebuilt packages you could try too. Hope this helps Andy P