On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, James Stevenson wrote:
> with the serial port it has a buffer when it recives data the
> serial port buffer will fill up if data is not read quickly enough
> the buffer will overflow hence the 1 input overrun
>
> to fix it your could try to reduce the data rate to the serial port
> and what type of UART do you have in that port ?
I don't think this should be normal.
The relevant dmesg part:
Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ
SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
I am using 115200.
Balazs Pozsar.
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I get the following message:
> > tts/0: 1 input overrun(s)
> >
> >each time while downloading pictures from my digital camera via ttyS0,
> >_and_ switching between an X session and textmode console.
> >(ie, 1 switch -> 1 error)
> >
> >This is with 2.4.1. I don't remember getting these with 2.2
> >This error also means a transmit error (gphoto reports error and a packet
> >has to be retransferred.)
> >
> >What is this? Why I'm getting it? What should I do? :)
> >
> >bye,
> >Balazs Pozsar.
> >
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