Problem accessing ttys0 ttys1?

I have a problem with softimage XSI installation in Linux Red Hat 7.3...
spm service has to be installed in order to run softimage and he requires free ttyS0 or ttyS1.
When I start spm service I receive error message which says that he can not accsess ttyS0 or ttyS1 depending on which one I choose...

Can you tell me what could be the problem here?

Thanks x 100000000000000e20

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Horak,

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don't know about softimage or spm, but i had some problems writing code that used /dev/ttyS0 a while back. The solution was to use /dev/cua0 instead. afaict they worked the same way, only ttyS0 didn't hang up properly after I disconnected.

Not sure if that will help any.

Max

I had some problems with ttyS0 and ttyS1 when trying to access a camera using those ports. It turned out to be a permission problem. You might want to check that out.

Hi..


You can check the detected serial ports by

dmesg | grep tty

it will show the detected serial ports with assigned names.

Regards

Siddiqu.T

I use serial ports on Linux fairly regularly, and I have found two things that
can bite you quite often:

1. The port is turned off or disabled in the BIOS. I run into this one a lot.
I think some Windoze Modem installation programs will do this. This is the
first thing I check when having a problem with ttyS0 or ttyS1. So get into the BIOS setup at power on time, and make sure those ports are enabled.

2. The labels for the ports are incorrect. Sometimes the header gets plugged
into the wrong port on the back of the case. So what you think is ttyS0 is really ttyS1 (and vice versa).

Hope this helps

Dwain