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- From: drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: conflicting serial ports
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.090416.17831@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <jane.714294486@munagin>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 09:04:16 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <jane.714294486@munagin> jane@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (jane lynette cosham) writes:
- >Hi!
- >
- >I am using linux 0.96c and having problems using ttys0 and ttys2 at
- >the same time.
- >
- >If ttys0 is in use (for example for the mouse in X) then attempts to
- >open ttys2 fail - reporting that the device is busy. The reverse also
- >happens - if ttys2 is in use then ttys0 reports as busy.
- >
- >This is not dependent on what is trying to open the port or which one
- >has the first port open - X for the mouse, kermit, getty or just a
- >write to that device. It also is not dependent on the hardware - I
- >have tried different i/o cards or even removing the card altogether.
- >(kermit doesn't mind opening a port that isn't installed and writes
- >to the other one still say the device is in use)
- >
- >Is this a bug? Am I doing something wrong? Would it be fixed if I
- >upgraded to 0.97?
-
- This is a feature, not a bug. The ISA bus cannot share interrupts.
- If one line is not asserting an interrupt condition (ie, pulling the
- IRQ line low), and another has the IRQ driver enabled, and triggers
- an interrupt, it will short out with the one pulling the line low,
- the IRQ line will stay in a logic low state, and you will never
- see the interrupt.
- --
- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
- IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but
- marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
-