The proposed solution does not work at all. Yes, the sketches compiles without errors, the upload is also done without problems, but when I tried the Examples AnalogReadSerial, DigitalReadSerial, BareMinimum and ASCIITable it wouldn't work.
Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem? My Linux is Gentoo amd64.
I tried the proposed solution with the Uno, Mega2560 and with the Mega1280.