Re: [avr-chat] Using Minicom (WAS Linux : any good ASCII terminal ?)

[Christopher X. Candreva]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

> Thanks Chris, I didn't think Minicom had such an advanced/rich UI.

Not nearly as advanced as Qmodem for DOS circa 1984 :-)

> I did search all the menus and set all the details of my connection (I
> think !) and saved it as 'AVR'. But doesn't work. Tried exiting Minicom
> and the AVR board, then starting Minico like this (after looking at the
> man page) to load my 'AVR' configuration file :
> 
> "sudo Minicom -o AVR"

Well, that't not how I do it. They explicitly say NOT to run it as root 
unless you are configuring it.

First, set permissions so you can access your serial port as your own user
(or some user other than root).

As root:
minicom -s /dev/ttyS0

Set options, just save -- don't give it a different name. You can test while 
root to make sure it is talking. Once it works, as yourself you just run

minicom /dev/ttyS0

And it should just work.



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