Actually, my program wants to both send control information AND watch
player serial port output as well as push the player off the serial port to
reserve it for communicating with my own hardware.

As for setserial, I've already tried it last night (the Debian ARM version)
but "setserial -g" reports an 8520 UART with a speed of 230400 and
trying to set it to anything else doesn't seem to change much except
a multiple character bug seems to show up. Maybe I'll do it the direct
ioctl way and just see what I can figure out, at least I have the source
code to look at .

Brett