[Coco] DriveWire4

[Christof M Bradford]

On 1/18/22 9:09 PM, gene heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 18, 2022 11:28:15 PM EST Christof M Bradford wrote:
>> On 1/18/22 8:21 PM, gene heskett wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, January 18, 2022 11:01:15 PM EST Christof M Bradford
> wrote:
>>>> Anyone here use DriveWire on Linux?
>>>
>>> I have in the past, worked well but my coco has died, needing all the
>>> electrolytic caps replaced.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
>>
>> How did you solve the problem of being unable to find the RXTX library?
>> DriveWire refuses to start for me because of that.
> 
> Hazy memory says I googled for it, downloaded and built it. Equally hazy
> memory says pidrivewire doesn't need it. Since my 2 meg coco3/6309 is in
> the basement, I used a 10 meter boosted usb-2 cable, which works ok as
> long as you stay in the next drainage away from any prolific seriel to
> usb adaptors. Future Domain Tech Inc stuff just works. On linux,
> drivewire uses a usb port, the adapter is between the coco's serial port
> and the boosted usb cable.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
> 
Funny thing is, I have actual RS-232 and parallel ports on my Linux box. 
So, if anyone knows their way around Linux, DriveWire4, and Java, I'd be 
most grateful for a solution to this problem.


"FATAL: UseRXTX is set, but RXTX native libraries could not be loaded" 
Said library is in my system but DriveWire/Java can't see it.

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