[PD] [comport] crashes system (Ubuntu 11.10) when USB from Arduino gets disconnected by mistake

[Martin Peach]

I think it's the FTDI drivers that were the problem. Try getting the latest
VCP driver from here:
http://www.ftdichip.com/FTDrivers.htm

Martin

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Ingo <ingo at miamiwave.com> wrote:

> I'm on an old Ubuntu (11.10) and Pd-extended 0.42.5 - possibly a newer
> version would help.
> Here Pd-extended freezes and I cannot shut down Pd or Ubuntu anymore.
>
> Ingo
>
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> Von: Pd-list [mailto:pd-list-bounces at lists.iem.at] Im Auftrag von
> Alexandros Drymonitis
> Gesendet: Montag, 26. Oktober 2015 17:45
> An: Max
> Cc: pd-list at lists.iem.at
> Betreff: Re: [PD] [comport] crashes system (Ubuntu 11.10) when USB from
> Arduino gets disconnected by mistake
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Max <abonnements at revolwear.com> wrote:
> On 2015년 10월 26일 19:32, Alexandros Drymonitis wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Max <abonnements at revolwear.com
> >     It's a known issue that if a connection is not released in the
> software
> >     and the cable is unplugged, comport and Pd will crash. It should not
> >     affect the Operating system however.
> > Hasn't that issue been fixed?
>
> Not that I know of. Maybe newer Arduinos have a USB driver that handles
> this better?
> I think it's on the [comport] side that it has been fixed. Maybe it's
> combined with a better handling from the Arduino itself. I guess Martin
> Peach can answer this.
> AFAIK the only way to get around this issue is to use a Byron/Minia
> http://www.1010.co.uk/org/byron.html
> and use the HID or MIDI-USB for the (Sensor-)input.
> Newer Arduinos should be able to reprogram the USB Atmel chip to behave
> like a Keyboard/HID/MIDI-USB, That would work too.
> The Arduino Leonardo is designed to behave like a keyboard, as far as I
> know, not the Uno.
>
>
> > My computer won't crash if I unplug the
> > Arduino without closing the serial port.
>
> And Pd is not freezing either?
> Nope, it just throws an error message (or a few of them) saying that the
> connection to the serial device has been lost..
> More precisely, it says that it lost connection and that it retries to
> obtain it. After a few attempts (around 10) it gives up, but no crash.
>
>
>
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