RespeQt general discussion

[_The Doctor__]

I've seen such things solved with serial port card as not al machines have decent serial ports onboard. even if the ports look like they are in a slot, most times that just goes to a header on the mother board.

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2 hours ago, mytek said:

Interesting. Obviously there's something different between the two systems that affects this. And if I had to guess it probably relates to the serial port hardware, assuming the RespeQt application runs in both machines.

 

Well at least you got it working in one instance

It does not run at all on my Linux Mint laptop. Having it run on my desktop is useless, it's nowhere near my Atari 800. I only tried installing it there for testing purposes.

[stushug]

I thought maybe it was a permissions issue, so I tried to run RespeQt as administrator and I got this message

[stushug]

I just did the same thing on my desktop computer and I got this error message, even the program started normally. Maybe this gives a clue?

[+mytek]

For the laptop, my suggestion would be to install Windows via Virtualbox, and then run the Windows version of RespeQT from there. That's what I have currently setup on one of my Linux Mint machines and it works fine. And the Windows release seems a lot less fussy to get working.

 

I used Windows XP, but Win2K should work as well. Here's a link to a version I've used in the past: https://archive.org/details/enwin2000prosp4_202001

(serial number: F4PFP-HGXFB-QRVYK-C9J2Y-23PW6).

 

Good luck

 

[stushug]

4 hours ago, mytek said:

For the laptop, my suggestion would be to install Windows via Virtualbox, and then run the Windows version of RespeQT from there. That's what I have currently setup on one of my Linux Mint machines and it works fine. And the Windows release seems a lot less fussy to get working.

 

I used Windows XP, but Win2K should work as well. Here's a link to a version I've used in the past: https://archive.org/details/enwin2000prosp4_202001

(serial number: F4PFP-HGXFB-QRVYK-C9J2Y-23PW6).

 

Good luck

 

My laptop is a dual boot win 11 and Linux Mint 21. It will be simpler to just boot into windows when I want to run RespeQt. My problem is that I'm very stubborn and I hate to give up without figuring out what's keeping RespeQt from running in Mint on my laptop when it runs in Mint on my desktop. Thanks for your suggestion, though. I appreciate you taking time to answer me! Perhaps someone else may see this and know the answer.

[HiassofT]

Open a shell, change to the directory where the RespeQt binary is located and run "ldd RespeQt" - this will show you which libraries it needs.

 

If any of them show up as "not found" then install them via the package manager - otherwise RespeQt won't start.

 

It would have been better if respeqt had been distributed as a proper deb package then all required libraries would have been installed automatically (Qt really is a beast in that aspect).

 

so long,

 

Hias

[stushug]

7 hours ago, HiassofT said:

Open a shell, change to the directory where the RespeQt binary is located and run "ldd RespeQt" - this will show you which libraries it needs.

 

If any of them show up as "not found" then install them via the package manager - otherwise RespeQt won't start.

 

It would have been better if respeqt had been distributed as a proper deb package then all required libraries would have been installed automatically (Qt really is a beast in that aspect).

 

so long,

 

Hias

I knew if I didn't give up someone would come forward with a solution. I did as you suggested and found one missing library. I installed it it and... RespeQt is now running on my Linux Mint 21 laptop.

Thank you very much Hias.👏

I've been struggling with this for a few months and it's finally solved. Hopefully, some other users will see this and it helps them too.