I'll quickly explain our scenario. We have third-party (read: cheap) camera's that make use of the serial Sony VISCA protocol for communication. They seem to work flawlessly on Windows, but not on Linux. However, they do work in Linux when we cut the serial control wires. But as we have quite a lot of these camera's, this is not a feasible fix for us. My guess is the camera's reset when they receive a DTR high signal and from what I have read, it seems this happens whenever the serial port is opened in Linux (correct me if I am wrong). I can change the VISCA library to set the DTR signal low, but only after opening the port, so the device still resets. Can anyone provide some hints on how I can handle this? I can edit source code and recompile the serial driver if that is what's required (bare in mind I'm not a developer, so I might need some pointers). Thanks so much in advance. Simon Wydooghe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html