[Coco] Drivewire and Ubuntu

[CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts]

On May 16, 2014 6:53 PM, "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
> i will check rxtx. i have added my user to dialout group. it will work
fron my user but it will display the crash window. if i ignore it i can use
it normally
>

That might be something different, not sure.  If you submit a bug report
from the crash window, I could probably tell ;)

> On May 16, 2014, at 6:44 PM, CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
> On May 16, 2014 6:12 PM, "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <
> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> >
> > i have problem too. it crashes on me on ubuntu 14.04 64-bit. i dont even
> see the gui. this from a fresh installed version.
>
> Start it from a shell, I don't know what the GUI is doing differently than
> just running the jar like most GUIs do, probably some kind of security
> feature to protect you.  shell works normally though.
>
> > i have an copy of the previous note, last version it only works with
> sudo. running normally it gives me a null reference pointer . although it
> keeps running if i dont click to close the error dialog still is annoying
> to have it.
> >
> > i tried changing default-jre to oracle java 7 and 8 with no avail.
>
> Its not a problem with the java version, its something in the Ubuntu GUI
> that doesnt like something DW does.  I don't think theres is anything
> simple that will change it but shell is a functional workaround.
>
> DW doesn't need sudo itself, but in some Linux systems there are
permission
> issues with rxtx (a library DW uses) and/or the serial devices.  You can
> probably just give your user account the right magic permissions if you
can
> figure out what they are on and avoid needing sudo.  If you Google search
> for rxtx + your flavor of Linux + permission problems, you'll probably
find
> people who have solved it, as rxtx is used by much more popular programs
> than DriveWire.
>
> Ubuntu is one of the systems I test the nice double click and go
> instructions on when I do a release, but I think they were back on 11 or
12
> when I did the last DW.  Things have changed...
>
> -Aaron
>
> >> On May 16, 2014, at 6:01 PM, CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <
> > coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ubuntu enforces some sort of no execute attributes allowed security
> > thing on downloaded files.
> >
> > To start DW, open a shell, change directory to where you unpacked
> > DriveWire and type:
> >
> > java -jar DW4UI.jar
> >
> > This will start it, although it may immediately exit and tell you some
> > things didn't work.
> > That's OK.  Just start it again, it will have disabled all the things
> > that didn't work before.
> > Seems to work here at least.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 5:14 PM, CoCoList for Color Computer
> > Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> >> I just tried running Drivewire 4 under Ubuntu 14.04 with no luck at
all.
> >> Where is the best place to get help?
> >>
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