trouble with serial ports and wine
 

I am trying to run a program under wine that needs read and write access to com1. When I try and comunicate with the serial port the app thinks that the port is in use. in the terminal wine says to check my permisions. I have ownership of ttyS0 and read and write access. I can use a serial mouse with no problems. Is there anyway to get full read and write access to the com port safely. I dont want to run wine as root. I am trying to switch over fully to linux. I am using Mandrake 9.1. My system is twice as fast in linux and I love the stability, but I need this app to work. I have enabled the read and write in the wine config file and set the speed of the com port. Would be greatfull for suggestions.

Thanks:D

Is the mouse attached to COM1? You might try to get the app to access COM2.

I only used the mouse to see if the port was working properly. I have tried with no device attatched to the port and it still says its in use.

My understanding: (1) when you do run wine as root, you can get the app to access COM1 and work; (2) any purely Linux program that uses COM1 can access the port; (3) the app can't access COM1 if you don't run wine as root.

Is this correct?

Try running it as root and see if that's fixed.

ran as root, no change. here is my screen dump.

fixme:win32:SetCriticalSectionSpinCount critsection=0x653cf7a0: spincount=1000 not supported
fixme:win32:SetCriticalSectionSpinCount critsection=0x653cf810: spincount=1000 not supported
fixme:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance Untranslated charset 255
fixme:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance Untranslated charset 255
fixme:win32:GetCalendarInfoA (00000409,00000001,20000030,(nil),0,0x407f1d2c): quarter-stub
fixme:win32:GetCalendarInfoW (00000409,00000001,20000030,(nil),0,0x407f1d2c): quarter-stub
err:dosfs:DOSFS_CreateCommPort Couldn't open device '/dev/ttyS0, 9600' ! (check permissions)
fixme:dosfs:DOSFS_OpenDevice device open L"COM1" not supported (yet)
err:file:CreateFileW Couldn't open device L"COM1"!

Here is my config file.

WINE REGISTRY Version 2
;; All keys relative to \\Machine\\Software\\Wine\\Wine\\Config

;;
;; MS-DOS drives configuration
;;
;; Each section has the following format:
;; [Drive X]
;; "Path"="xxx" (Unix path for drive root)
;; "Type"="xxx" (supported types are 'floppy', 'hd', 'cdrom' and 'network')
;; "Label"="xxx" (drive label, at most 11 characters)
;; "Serial"="xxx" (serial number, 8 characters hexadecimal number)
;; "Filesystem"="xxx" (supported types are 'msdos'/'dos'/'fat', 'win95'/'vfat', 'unix')
;; This is the FS Wine is supposed to emulate on a certain
;; directory structure.
;; Recommended:
;; - "win95" for ext2fs, VFAT and FAT32
;; - "msdos" for FAT16 (ugly, upgrading to VFAT driver strongly recommended)
;; DON'T use "unix" unless you intend to port programs using Winelib !
;; "Device"="/dev/xx" (only if you want to allow raw device access)
;;

[Drive A]
"Type" = "floppy"
"Path" = "/mnt/floppy"
"Label" = "/mnt/floppy"
"Device" = "/dev/floppy/0"

[Drive C]
"Path" = "/home/chris/mswin/"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "/home/chris/C/"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive D]


[Drive E]
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"Label" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"FileSystem" = "win95"
"Device" = "/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd"

[Drive F]
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom2"
"Label" = "/mnt/cdrom2"
"FileSystem" = "win95"
"Device" = "/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd"

[Drive X]
"Type" = "hd"
"Path" = "/tmp"
"Label" = "Tmp Drive"
"FileSystem" = "win95"

[Drive Y]


[Drive Z]
"Type" = "network"
"Path" = "/"
"Label" = "Root"
"FileSystem" = "win95"

[wine]
"Windows" = "C:\\Windows"
"System" = "C:\\Windows\\System"
"Temp" = "X:\\"
"Path" = "C:\\Windows;C:\\Windows\\System;X:\\"
"GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
; Wine doesn't pass directory symlinks to Windows programs by default.
; Enabling this may crash some programs that do recursive lookups of a whole
; subdir tree in case of a symlink pointing back to itself.
;"ShowDirSymlinks" = "1"
"ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"

# <wineconf>

[DllOverrides]
"commdlg" = "builtin, native"
"comdlg32" = "builtin, native"
"ver" = "builtin, native"
"version" = "builtin, native"
"shell" = "builtin, native"
"shell32" = "builtin, native"
"shfolder" = "builtin, native"
"shlwapi" = "builtin, native"
"lzexpand" = "builtin, native"
"lz32" = "builtin, native"
"comctl32" = "builtin, native"
"commctrl" = "builtin, native"
"advapi32" = "builtin, native"
"crtdll" = "builtin, native"
"mpr" = "builtin, native"
"winspool.drv" = "builtin, native"
"ddraw" = "builtin, native"
"dinput" = "builtin, native"
"dsound" = "builtin, native"
"opengl32" = "builtin, native"
"msvcrt" = "native, builtin"
"rpcrt4" = "native, builtin"
"msvideo" = "builtin, native"
"msvfw32" = "builtin, native"
"mcicda.drv" = "builtin, native"
"mciseq.drv" = "builtin, native"
"mciwave.drv" = "builtin, native"
"mciavi.drv" = "native, builtin"
"mcianim.drv" = "native, builtin"
"msacm.drv" = "builtin, native"
"msacm" = "builtin, native"
"msacm32" = "builtin, native"
"midimap.drv" = "builtin, native"
; default for all other dlls
"*" = "native, builtin, so"

[x11drv]
; Number of colors to allocate from the system palette
"AllocSystemColors" = "100"
; Use a private color map
"PrivateColorMap" = "N"
; Favor correctness over speed in some graphics operations
"PerfectGraphics" = "N"
; Color depth to use on multi-depth screens
;;"ScreenDepth" = "16"
; Name of X11 display to use
;;"Display" = ":0.0"
; Allow the window manager to manage created windows
"Managed" = "Y"
; Use a desktop window of 640x480 for Wine
"Desktop" = "N"
; Use XFree86 DGA extension if present
; (make sure /dev/mem is accessible by you !)
"UseDGA" = "Y"
; Use XShm extension if present
"UseXShm" = "Y"
; Enable DirectX mouse grab
"DXGrab" = "N"
; Create the desktop window with a double-buffered visual
; (useful to play OpenGL games)
"DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "N"
; Code page used for captions in managed mode
; 0 means default ANSI code page (CP_ACP == 0)
"TextCP" = "0"
; Use this if you have more than one port for video on your setup
; (Wine uses for now the first 'input image' it finds).
;; "XVideoPort" = "43"
; Run in synchronous mode (useful for debugging X11 problems)
;;"Synchronous" = "Y"

[fonts]
;Read documentation/fonts before adding aliases
;See a couple of examples for russian users below
"Resolution" = "96"
"Default" = "-adobe-helvetica-"
"DefaultFixed" = "fixed"
"DefaultSerif" = "-adobe-times-"
"DefaultSansSerif" = "-adobe-helvetica-"

;; default TrueType fonts with russian koi8-r encoding
;"Default" = "-monotype-arial-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"
;"DefaultFixed" = "-monotype-courier new-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"
;"DefaultSerif" = "-monotype-times new roman-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"
;"DefaultSansSerif" = "-monotype-arial-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"
;; default cyrillic bitmap X fonts
;"Default" = "-cronyx-helvetica-"
;"DefaultFixed" = "fixed"
;"DefaultSerif" = "-cronyx-times-"
;"DefaultSansSerif" = "-cronyx-helvetica-"

[serialports]
"Com1" = "/dev/ttyS0, 9600"
"Com2" = "/dev/ttyS1, 9600"

[parallelports]
"Lpt1" = "/dev/lp0"

[spooler]
"LPT1:" = "|lpr"
"LPT2:" = "|gs -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fred -q -"
"LPT3:" = "/dev/lp3"

[ports]
"read" = "0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0"
"write" = "0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0"

[spy]
"Exclude" = "WM_SIZE;WM_TIMER;"

[registry]
;These are all booleans. Y/y/T/t/1 are true, N/n/F/f/0 are false.
;Defaults are read all, write to Home
; Global registries (stored in /etc)
"LoadGlobalRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; Home registries (stored in ~user/.wine/)
"LoadHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; Load Windows registries from the Windows directory
"LoadWindowsRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; TRY to write all changes to home registries
"WritetoHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; Registry periodic save timeout in seconds
; "PeriodicSave" = "600"
; Save only modified keys
"SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys" = "Y"

[Tweak.Layout]
;; supported styles are 'Win31'(default), 'Win95', 'Win98'
"WineLook" = "Win98"

[Console]
;"Drivers" = "tty"
;"XtermProg" = "nxterm"
;"InitialRows" = "25"
;"InitialColumns" = "80"
;"TerminalType" = "nxterm"

[Clipboard]
"ClearAllSelections" = "0"
"PersistentSelection" = "1"

; List of all directories directly contain .AFM files

[afmdirs]
"1" = "/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts"
"2" = "/usr/share/a2ps/afm"
"3" = "/usr/share/enscript"
"4" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"

[WinMM]
"Drivers" = "wineoss.drv"
"WaveMapper" = "msacm.drv"
"MidiMapper" = "midimap.drv"

# </wineconf>

#########################################
# Application dependent sections follow #
#########################################

[AppDefaults\\iexplore.exe\\DllOverrides]
"shell" = "native, builtin"
"shell32" = "native, builtin"
"shfolder" = "native, builtin"
"shlwapi" = "native, builtin"
"comctl32" = "native, builtin"
"commctrl" = "native, builtin"

[AppDefaults\\notes.exe\\DllOverrides]
"shlwapi" = "native"
"msvcrt" = "native"
"crtdll" = "native"
"ole32" = "builtin"
"oleaut32" = "builtin"
"olepro32" = "builtin"

[AppDefaults\\nlnotes.exe\\DllOverrides]
"shlwapi" = "native"
"msvcrt" = "native"
"crtdll" = "native"
"ole32" = "builtin"
"oleaut32" = "builtin"
"olepro32" = "builtin"
"netbios" = "builtin"

[AppDefaults\\nhldaemn.exe\\DllOverrides]
"shlwapi" = "native"
"msvcrt" = "native"
"crtdll" = "native"
"ole32" = "builtin"
"oleaut32" = "builtin"
"olepro32" = "builtin"

[AppDefaults\\_INS5576._MP\\x11drv]
; Lotus Notes R5 installer
; I'm quite not sure this will run on some other machine than mine, but it
; can't hurt
"Managed" = "N"
"Desktop" = "N"

[AppDefaults\\nlnotes.exe\\x11drv]
"Desktop" = "800x600"

Thanks for all the help.

I'm not sure why it'd fail to open. Can you access those devices normally?

Yes. I can connect a mouse or a modem and use it fine within linux. In my app under wine it even tells me the serial port is ready, but when I try to access it, the program thinks its in use.