I just got the duemilanove. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64(x86_64) with openjdk-6, librxtx-java 2.1.7. I've copied librxtxSerial.so from /usr/lib/ to arduino lib and it's working fine. I'm able to program the board fine. However, I cannot initiate serial monitoring... it crashes with this:
See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
Aborted
I've tried updating to the jaunty librxtx-java deb and even compiling newer versions of the RXTX api. At this point I have no idea what the problem is. I've tried serial monitoring in windows and it works just fine. I absolutely hate logging into windows so I'm desperate for a solution here. Thanks.
I realized that this is in the wrong section... should be under the Software Troubleshooting section.
Yes, I did copy RXTXcomm.jar. I'm not sure what the problem is but in the meantime I will explore with screen. Also, I will mess around with the C and C++ workarounds for serial communication....
Ubuntu crashed last night and I was not able to log back in.
I tried reinstalling Nvidia drivers, checking GDM and Xorg logs, installing kdm instead of gdm... something went bad.
I reinstalled Ubuntu 8.10. I install arduino... yet this time I couldn't get avrdude to run from hardware/tools...which is strange because it ran perfectly last time without the need to compile avrdude. I had to compile avrdude which took some time because I needed to get all the dependencies settled. Anyways, now I'm uploading to the arduino and serial communication is working perfectly for some reason. I just copied librxtxSerial.so like last time... this time no errors.
This is all getting quite annoying. I
had
a working setup (Arduino Duemilanove, Ubuntu 8.10) It worked straight away. And then suddenly, it doesn't work.