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Subject: [ts-7000] ts7800ctl and /dev/mem
From: "n4rve" <>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:05:48 -0000
Hi...

I'm just beginning to get my feet wet (OK, barely moist) with this board, so 
please forgive me if this is a PEBCAK (Problem Exists Between Chair And 
Keyboard).

When my 7800 first came up, I was able to use ts7800ctl -n and -F to turn the 
LED on and off.  This was fairly exciting, and worked both in root and my user 
account.

However, the next time I tried ts7800ctl in the user account (and every time 
since) I receive this error message on any option:

ts7800ctl: ts7800ctl.c:175: main: Assertion `devmem != -1' failed.
Aborted

This kind of error is associated with failing to close /dev/mem in a program 
after opening it, and sure enough, when I look at the source:

ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/tmp/7800_adc_update/ts7800ctl.c

I see 

devmem = open("/dev/mem", O_RDWR|O_SYNC);

just before all the case statements.  There is no close.  Clearly, however, 
this must be working for other people as it is often cited... so I can't 
imagine that's really the problem.

The puzzle, perhaps negating the question above, is why am I getting the abort 
message on every attempt to use it in user space, even though it still works 
fine in root (assuming I use the explicit path of /usr/local/bin/)?

Cheers, 
Steve
(who is still puzzled about the lack of sudo)






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