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Yay! I got it working. Turns out that the baud rate needed to be set to 9600 as opposed to 115200.



$ cat /etc/init/ttyS5
# ttyS5 - getty
#
# This service maintains a getty on ttyS5 from the...

Ok. Not sure what I've changed, but am now getting some junk characters printed to the display (see attached), which I guess is an improvement. This happens when the getty instance launches for ttyS5...

Thanks for the response again.

I attempted to install 3.19 kernel but it caused lots of problems (no network, no keyboard...). So instead I tried to use the latest Ubuntu live version (which...

Hey,

Thanks for the quick response. I tried the howto, but didn't have any success: minicom says offline at the bottom, and the suggested alternative of using screen just gives me a blinking...

Hi,

I'm having some problems figuring out how to get a Serial VFD working on Ubuntu 14.04.

The VFD is part of an Aures point of sale unit. The specs say it's a YUNO-VFD.

I've not had much...

hmm :( still doesn't work for me.

amilo pro v8010d

it worked for me :) but i had to remember to activate it using fn f12

so very happy! had been banging my head against a brick wall over this.

i love tilda, use it all the time, so don't give up yet...

i use fluxbox and just had to enter it into my .fluxbox/startup file, so i assume that with all you gnomers that you go to...

my girlfriend has the ubuntu sample desktop of the tree (is it forest of ubuntu?)

me? i tend to work in terminal a lot, but when i come out i have fluxbox which has a nice picture of my girlfriend...

sorry, i don't know how to delet posts


~$ cd pub
~/pub$ more beer

the likelyhood is that your cd drive is a different device, mine for example is /dev/hda (this is because my hard drive's /dev/sda) what you want to do is enter the command:

cat /etc/fstab...

the dvd release contains ubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu and the live cd (i think)
hence 2.8 gig (700*4=2800)

I'm about 800 megs from finding out.