[PlanetCCRMA] Odd error in pilot-xfer

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

> > Does this happen with the original redhat kernel?
> 
> Yes. Which is weird.

Must be some update that broke this, I don't know where to start
looking. If you sort off remember when it happened you could take a look
at the output of "rpm -q -a --last", it is packages installed sorted by
install time. 

> Another wrinkle: I see from surfing google that SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE
> shows up a lot in strace when it shouldn't, so I think that strace is
> being buggy (again, no surprise there) and the ioctls being done are
> actually the ones to set the baud rate on the serial port.

Yes, I saw that as well, makes sense. I don't know which other package
is in the loop for controlling the tty's other than the kernel. I take
it that you have checked the permissions of /dev/ttyS*, right? (should
be fine because the device is apparently being opened). 

-- Fernando