Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I use a D945GSEJT (single core atom 1.6GHz) in that kind of configuration - I've disabled X11, so I always boot to a command prompt. I have a KVM if I need it. Jitter - 6873/6755. When running a desktop it glitches to about 15000. Interestingly, if I'm running latency-test then startx, my

Re: [Emc-users] Commanded positions

2012-01-09 Thread andy pugh
On 9 January 2012 05:36, Farzin Kamangar farzin.kaman...@gmail.com wrote: commanded position is not right, but the actual position is correct. I was looking for an interface from emc.stat which can show the correct commanded position. Do you want to see the end-point of the current move? That

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/08/2012 06:27 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: I had a few minutes this afternoon and decided to try another experiment with this board---still running Ubuntu 10.04LTS with the 2.6.32-122-rtai kernel. I disabled Gnome (which shut down X) on the board by running the following from the command

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/9/2012 5:20 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: On 01/08/2012 06:27 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: I had a few minutes this afternoon and decided to try another experiment with this board---still running Ubuntu 10.04LTS with the 2.6.32-122-rtai kernel. I disabled Gnome (which shut down X) on the board by

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/9/2012 12:17 AM, Jon Elson wrote: Kent A. Reed wrote: possible even install RTAI and EMC2 over a Ubuntu server distribution to avoid the Gnome/X-server stuff altogether, since there's the usual niff-naff about booting Ubuntu desktop edition without a monitor attached, etc. I have a

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/09/2012 09:22 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/9/2012 5:20 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: On 01/08/2012 06:27 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: I had a few minutes this afternoon and decided to try another experiment with this board---still running Ubuntu 10.04LTS with the 2.6.32-122-rtai

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Les Newell
Some kernel mode display drivers can make X fail to start if they don't find a monitor. See this page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting so see how to turn off KMS for your driver. You will have to create an xorg.conf to manually specify the driver and monitor. I had to do this for

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/09/2012 10:52 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/9/2012 9:57 AM, Les Newell wrote: Some kernel mode display drivers can make X fail to start if they don't find a monitor. See this page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting so see how to turn off KMS for your driver. You will have

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/9/2012 9:56 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: On 01/09/2012 09:22 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/9/2012 5:20 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: On 01/08/2012 06:27 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: I had a few minutes this afternoon and decided to try another experiment with this board---still running Ubuntu 10.04LTS

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Les Newell
Sorry Kent, For some reason I thought you were still running an X server. My bad. Les On 09/01/2012 15:52, Kent A. Reed wrote: Maybe I'm just being thick this morning, but why would I want to start an X11-server on a machine lacking a monitor? Regards, Kent

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/9/2012 10:59 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: On 01/09/2012 10:52 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/9/2012 9:57 AM, Les Newell wrote: Some kernel mode display drivers can make X fail to start if they don't find a monitor. See this page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSettingso see how to turn

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Jon Elson
Kent A. Reed wrote: Interesting, Jon. I've been told that Ubuntu desktop edition stalls during boot if it doesn't detect a monitor. There's a lot of blog entries out there devoted to how to make a VGA plug to fool your system into thinking a monitor is present. Well, easy enough to test

[Emc-users] emc Through ssh

2012-01-09 Thread Kirk Wallace
The recent talk about headless emc2 got my to look into running emc2 on a remote PC with ssh. I looked at the wiki page http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Running_Multiple_User_Interfaces and generic pages on X11 through ssh

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Jon Elson
Mark Wendt wrote: On 01/09/2012 10:52 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/9/2012 9:57 AM, Les Newell wrote: Some kernel mode display drivers can make X fail to start if they don't find a monitor. See this page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting so see how to turn off KMS

Re: [Emc-users] emc Through ssh

2012-01-09 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 10:16 -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote: The recent talk about headless emc2 got my to look into running emc2 on a remote PC with ssh. I looked at the wiki page http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Running_Multiple_User_Interfaces and generic pages on X11 through ssh

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 12:20 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: ... snip No, it is much broader than that. If X is not running on the server machine, then any client that wants to use ANY X program on the server will not be able to make an X connection. You would be able to make ssh connections with

Re: [Emc-users] Compile - install new kinematic

2012-01-09 Thread Francesca Sca
Hallo, I have also some problem with compile and install new kinematic. I have modificated a kinematics file, renamed it in armkins.c and copied it into /usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/emc. Then I run compile and install   (sudo comp  --install) and I have something very similar to Tomaz

Re: [Emc-users] emc Through ssh

2012-01-09 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: The recent talk about headless emc2 got my to look into running emc2 on a remote PC with ssh. I looked at the wiki page http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Running_Multiple_User_Interfaces and generic pages on X11 through ssh

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread andy pugh
On 9 January 2012 18:20, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: and use any command-line program Keystick? Keystick, a character-based screen graphics program suitable for minimal installations (without the X server running). http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gui_keystick.html -- atp The idea

Re: [Emc-users] Compile - install new kinematic

2012-01-09 Thread andy pugh
On 9 January 2012 18:34, Francesca Sca fancy_...@yahoo.it wrote: cp armkins.ko /usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/emc2/ armkins.ko in /home/cnc/emc2-dev/rtlib NOT FOUND! That seems a little odd. Are you running . ./emc2-dev/scripts/emc-environment before running comp? It looks like armkins

Re: [Emc-users] emc Through ssh

2012-01-09 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 12:40 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: ... snip Or are you talking about running Axis directly on the remote computer, rather than exporting the X display through ssh -X ? I'm not even sure that is possible. Jon Oops, I forgot that AXIS doesn't run or run well on the remote

Re: [Emc-users] Compile - install new kinematic

2012-01-09 Thread Francesca Sca
Andy pugh wrote: Are you running . ./emc2-dev/scripts/emc-environment before running comp? It looks like armkins is being installed to the installed version of emc2, not to the run in place version. Yes...I'm running emc2 through  . ./emc2-dev/scripts/emc-environment because I created a

Re: [Emc-users] Compile - install new kinematic

2012-01-09 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/1/9 Francesca Sca fancy_...@yahoo.it: Andy pugh wrote: Are you running . ./emc2-dev/scripts/emc-environment before running comp? It looks like armkins is being installed to the installed version of emc2, not to the run in place version. Yes...I'm running emc2 through  .

Re: [Emc-users] emc Through ssh

2012-01-09 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
This whole server/client/remote/x11 discussion has got me perplexed. Maybe I've missed something, but I've been running my development environment on headless boxes for years. I work on a windows 7 box, and use Cygwin/X to connect to the unix boxes. I run... ssh -Y -l username hostname to

Re: [Emc-users] emc Through ssh

2012-01-09 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 07:26 +1100, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: This whole server/client/remote/x11 discussion has got me perplexed. Maybe I've missed something, but I've been running my development environment on headless boxes for years. My recent experience has been a little bit different. I

Re: [Emc-users] emc Through ssh

2012-01-09 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 13:57 -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote: ... snip This means, as Kent discovered, you can create a minimal linux installation, that is pretty much dedicated to running emc. Then use a remote connection to display axis on another machine. I would like to try an EMC setup

Re: [Emc-users] Hal Configuration available outside of axis?

2012-01-09 Thread Karl Cunningham
On 01/08/2012 05:08 PM, Dewey Garrett wrote: halshow.tcl is a tcl script, it doesn't seem to be set up currently to run as a executable but you can do it as follows from the command line: For a RIP build: $ cd your_build_directory $ source scripts/emc-environment $

Re: [Emc-users] Compile - install new kinematic

2012-01-09 Thread Spiderdab
Il giorno lun, 09/01/2012 alle 18.34 +, Francesca Sca ha scritto: Hallo, I have also some problem with compile and install new kinematic. I have modificated a kinematics file, renamed it in armkins.c and copied it into /usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/emc. Then I run compile and

Re: [Emc-users] OT: HDMI to VGA Was RE: Ideal Atom?

2012-01-09 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com wrote: It seems like more and more LCD screens have HDMI input ports will that be the future video standard? The DVI connector seems like an overkill compared to the HDMI connector. True that, DVI is much bigger and yet less