Version 0.2, Jan 14 1998
KSermon is an system-utility to watch the activities on a given serial port. The current state of the TX,RX,CTS,RTS,DTR,DSR,DCD and RI lines are shown by some kind of LEDs. Furthermore, the current TX/RX transfer rates are visualisized using bars and within an osziloscope (this is nice to analyse the transfer characteristics). Additionaly, the count of received and transmitted data since programm start is displayed.
As KSermon uses the session-management system from KDE, the user has only to start the programm, and then choose the device to observe from the Options->Preferences menu. It is also possible to change the update interval and the maximum displayed transfer-rate during runtime within the Preferences.
For proper compilation, you will have to install the kernel-patch included in sermon-0.20; For proper execution, will have to recompile the kernel!
Then, just type "make", but be shure, that Qt and KDE are installed and $QTDIR and $KDEDIR are set properly.
Type "make install" to install the binary and the Manual-pages (html). Be sure, that you are superuser!
The program has been compiled for Linux-2.0.33 and later, using the GUI-Toolkit Qt 1.31 from Trolltech, the K Desktop Environemet and sermon-0.20 from Peter Fox (fox@roestock.demon.co.uk).
Tell me, if you find more :-)
This program and documentation is copyright B. Kuhn (kuhn@eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de) and distributed under the GPL (see COPYING).
Copyright notices are not to be removed or altered.
There is NO WARRANTY for this program.
This program has been compiled on my machine using gcc 2.7.2, Qt 1.31, sermon-0.20 and linux 2.0.33, and it seems to work for me.
Thanks to Peter Fox for his excelent serial device extension !
Bernhard Kuhn, Tue Jan 14 01:58:28 MET 1998