5 Sep
2016
5 Sep
'16
9:05 a.m.
The usual answer, from back in the day, was to make sure hardware flow
control was on and working at higher speeds. If you don't have that,
you are going to lose > 9600 baud. I spent way too much time pulling
fat cable to enable this after we'd wired the building with 3-wire
cable for the VT52's and cute 'headphone' plug-in jacks back in my
high school days...
Warner
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Adrian Graham
<witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk> wrote:
On 05/09/2016 01:10, "Fritz Mueller"
<fritzm at fritzm.org> wrote:
Hi all ?
I?m trying to run a real-deal vt100 on a serial port connected to Linux
(Xubunto 16.04). I?ve got this working *pretty* well, but it looks like the
padding values in the default vt100 terminfo entry are not quite correct ?
when running the vt100 at 9600 I still get occasional garbage characters on
the screen, and 19200 is a hopeless mess.
I did figure out that if the terminfo contains ?xon?, the non-mandatory
padding values in the terminfo are disregarded. Removing this, then disabling
xon/xoff on both the vt100 and the tty device actually produces *better*
results ? apparently the turnaround on xon/xoff isn?t quite fast enough to
keep the terminal from being swamped at higher baud rates, and padding
actually works better. But tracking down the source for the default vt100
entry turned up a comment that admits that the padding values there are a
total guess. :-(
So, before I go diving too much further into the terminfo-tweaking-samp, I
thought I?d ask if anybody has a good vt100 entry already on hand? (I?d take
one for the VT52 as well!)
Interesting. I'm running a genuine VT100 from a home-made serial port
(MAX3232 based) on a Beaglebone Black running Debian Jessie as part of my
DECbox project and it's rock solid at 9600 baud, even with smooth scroll.
I'd never given the termcap entry a moment's thought.
This may or may not help, but when talking serially to a ZX Spectrum (I
know, but it's still RS232 comms) I get consistent results with a genuine
serial port on a laptop but with a cheap chinese USB-serial converter it
just doesn't work and I put this down to incorrect grounding.
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