Re: [Emc-users] The d525 performance tweak

2014-01-12 Thread Sven Wesley
RTAI works better on some boards with the boot option isolcpus=x set in Grub, where x is the number of processor cores minus the first one. In the case of the d525, which has two cores, it should be isolcpus=1. On a four core CPU this will be isolcpus=1,2,3 (specially with hyper threading active,

Re: [Emc-users] Stopping program for tool change

2014-01-12 Thread Mike Eitel
Michael Haberler mail17@... writes: John, Am 11.01.2014 um 19:57 schrieb John Alexander Stewart ivatt260@...: Hi all; I've got a large bit of steel milling to do, and am changing tools mid-stream every 1mm or so of depth. (6mm end mills, 12.7mm depth) Is it possible that the

Re: [Emc-users] Stopping program for tool change

2014-01-12 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 12.01.2014 um 10:38 schrieb Mike Eitel m...@eitel.ch: Michael Haberler mail17@... writes: John, Am 11.01.2014 um 19:57 schrieb John Alexander Stewart ivatt260@...: Hi all; I've got a large bit of steel milling to do, and am changing tools mid-stream every 1mm or so of depth.

Re: [Emc-users] Pncconf does not include 5i25

2014-01-12 Thread Sven Wesley
2014/1/12 Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com I tried that yesterday (the update.zip with the copy script) but it blanked out and disabled the select boxes in Pncconf and then I went to bed. :) Couldn't the xml files be added to the source tree instead? Found another source of the XML, in

Re: [Emc-users] The d525 performance tweak

2014-01-12 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Thanks Sven, easy enough. On 2014-01-12 10:34, Sven Wesley wrote: RTAI works better on some boards with the boot option isolcpus=x set in Grub, where x is the number of processor cores minus the first one. In the case of the d525, which has two cores, it should be isolcpus=1. On a four core

Re: [Emc-users] Error starting EMC

2014-01-12 Thread jrmitchellj .
Looks like it did not find you parallel port. (just my guess by looking at the kernel message) Ray --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com (818)324-7573 “Normal people ... believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough

Re: [Emc-users] Error starting EMC

2014-01-12 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 01/12/2014 07:14 AM, jrmitchellj . wrote: Looks like it did not find you parallel port. (just my guess by looking at the kernel message) Actually, I think the this error message: insmod: error inserting '/usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/emc2/hal_ppmc.ko': -1 Operation not permitted

Re: [Emc-users] The d525 performance tweak

2014-01-12 Thread Dave Cole
Good information.. Intel has stopped making most motherboards now, which is apparently ahead of schedule from what they originally announced and the D525MW which last came out in a D525MWE edition (Extended) seems to no longer be available except what is left in stock. Is the Gigabyte 350

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2, MESA 5i25: pins toggle on startup

2014-01-12 Thread Marius Alksnys
I am sure it is so - they are active low. These boards are simple opto-isolators with 817. Their + inputs are connected to +5V and - to MESA IO pins. There are LED indicators on each of those channels. And they blink at LinuxCNC startup for part of a second. I didn't try is_opendrain option

Re: [Emc-users] The d525 performance tweak

2014-01-12 Thread Marius Alksnys
Yes, Gigabyte GA-E350N is a good option. http://uk.gigabyte.com/search/search.aspx?kw=GA-E350N#pr-1 Their performance is better than Intel d525, latency is good. I am using number of them on different setups. I tweak their RAM frequency to 1333 MHz with 1333 RAM. It is possible to achieve low

Re: [Emc-users] Error starting EMC

2014-01-12 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2014/1/12 Bruce Klawiter bmkl...@yahoo.com [ 42.067913] PPMC: ERROR: no boards found on bus 0, port 0378 I think that this line is what you are looking for. As Kirk mentioned, it just did not find PPMC board on particular LPT port. Viesturs

[Emc-users] error loading linuxcnc

2014-01-12 Thread Josiah Morgan
everything was working great for me till all the sudden it started throwing me these errors any time I try to open linuxcnc.. it seems to happen regardless of what ini configuration I choose. has anyone seen this before or have any suggestions? thanks linuxcnc@arm:~$ linuxcnc LINUXCNC - 2.6.0~pre

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2, MESA 5i25: pins toggle on startup

2014-01-12 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014, Marius Alksnys wrote: Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 18:40:55 +0200 From: Marius Alksnys marius.alks...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2, MESA 5i25:

[Emc-users] LinuxCNC shows new, but runs old ngc program

2014-01-12 Thread Marius Alksnys
This bug not only annoys, but is very dangerous too. File reload does not help. Latest stable version. -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2, MESA 5i25: pins toggle on startup

2014-01-12 Thread Marius Alksnys
Yes, I am using DB25 port for sserial to two 8i20's and encoders and IDC port for IO. On 2014.01.12 19:22, Peter C. Wallace wrote: What configuration and which pins are you using? (I do know sserial must be specifically disabled in the config line to prevent I/O twiddling at startup)

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2, MESA 5i25: pins toggle on startup

2014-01-12 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014, Marius Alksnys wrote: Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:28:58 +0200 From: Marius Alksnys marius.alks...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2, MESA 5i25:

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC shows new, but runs old ngc program

2014-01-12 Thread jrmitchellj .
I ran into this yesterday as well. I edited the ngc file to remove 4 spot drill operations at the start of the program, saved it, reloaded it (saw that the operations were gone in the gui), ran the program, and it started with the spot drill points I removed from the file. stopped the program,

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC shows new, but runs old ngc program

2014-01-12 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 01/12/2014 10:27 AM, Marius Alksnys wrote: This bug not only annoys, but is very dangerous too. File reload does not help. Latest stable version. Wow, that is a dangerous bug! By latest stable version, do you mean 2.5.3? Or v2.5.3-91-g5751b1d or something else? Which UI are you using?

Re: [Emc-users] error loading linuxcnc

2014-01-12 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 01/12/2014 10:18 AM, Josiah Morgan wrote: everything was working great for me till all the sudden it started throwing me these errors any time I try to open linuxcnc.. it seems to happen regardless of what ini configuration I choose. has anyone seen this before or have any suggestions?

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC shows new, but runs old ngc program

2014-01-12 Thread jrmitchellj .
I believe it is 2.5.3, but I will check when I get to the school later today. Ray --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com (818)324-7573 “Normal people ... believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.” -- Scott

Re: [Emc-users] error loading linuxcnc

2014-01-12 Thread Josiah Morgan
I don't even know what Xenomai is. linuxcnc was working great for me on the beaglebone for a week till it just to stop opening for me and giving me this message. On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.comwrote: On 01/12/2014 10:18 AM, Josiah Morgan wrote:

Re: [Emc-users] The d525 performance tweak

2014-01-12 Thread Dave Cole
Excellent. Thanks! Dave On 1/12/2014 12:10 PM, Marius Alksnys wrote: Yes, Gigabyte GA-E350N is a good option. http://uk.gigabyte.com/search/search.aspx?kw=GA-E350N#pr-1 Their performance is better than Intel d525, latency is good. I am using number of them on different setups. I tweak

Re: [Emc-users] Fwd: Re: Re: How do you change polarity of Step Pulses in MachineKit stepgen?

2014-01-12 Thread Thomas Studwell
On 1/10/2014 12:33 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: On 1/10/2014 9:33 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: On 1/10/2014 7:42 AM, Thomas Studwell wrote: I can easily modify the PRU assembly and create a version that does falling-edge step pulses for all step/dir generators. To use it, you would

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC shows new, but runs old ngc program

2014-01-12 Thread Marius Alksnys
I think it is 2.5.3, but I am not 100% sure. Axis GUI. On 2014.01.12 20:04, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 01/12/2014 10:27 AM, Marius Alksnys wrote: This bug not only annoys, but is very dangerous too. File reload does not help. Latest stable version. Wow, that is a dangerous bug! By

Re: [Emc-users] error loading linuxcnc

2014-01-12 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 01/12/2014 11:37 AM, Josiah Morgan wrote: I don't even know what Xenomai is. linuxcnc was working great for me on the beaglebone for a week till it just to stop opening for me and giving me this message. On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com

Re: [Emc-users] Fwd: Re: Re: How do you change polarity of Step Pulses in MachineKit stepgen?

2014-01-12 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 1/12/2014 1:19 PM, Thomas Studwell wrote: The only oddity, which doesn't affect the motion but does affect power consumption, is that the signals are not initialized to high (AKA inactive state) on program startup. The signals do go high and remain there after the first step, however. The

[Emc-users] Beaglebone linuxcnc error loading after trying other GUI

2014-01-12 Thread Josiah Morgan
I posted this a little bit ago but decided to repost adding some helpful info. I had my beaglebone-linuxcnc system running smoothly until yesterday it just completely decided to stop working. I just realized the series of events that caused it to stop working. I wanted to see what it would look

Re: [Emc-users] Error starting EMC

2014-01-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 January 2014 14:58:59 Kirk Wallace did opine: On 01/12/2014 07:14 AM, jrmitchellj . wrote: Looks like it did not find you parallel port. (just my guess by looking at the kernel message) Actually, I think the this error message: insmod: error inserting

Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone linuxcnc error loading after trying other GUI

2014-01-12 Thread Josiah Morgan
this is what I get linuxcnc@arm:~$ id uid=1000(linuxcnc) gid=1001(linuxcnc) groups=1001(linuxcnc),4(adm),15(kmem),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),27(sudo),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),999(xenomai) linuxcnc@arm:~$ On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 2:02 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 12

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC shows new, but runs old ngc program

2014-01-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 January 2014 15:18:53 Marius Alksnys did opine: I think it is 2.5.3, but I am not 100% sure. Axis GUI. The top of the window frame tells you what version it it. On 2014.01.12 20:04, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 01/12/2014 10:27 AM, Marius Alksnys wrote: This bug not only

Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone linuxcnc error loading after trying other GUI

2014-01-12 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
It looks like you're a member of the xenomai group. The other piece of the puzzle is telling the kernel which gid is used for xenomai, which happens towards the end of etc/rc.local: echo 999 /sys/module/xeno_nucleus/parameters/xenomai_gid See what's currently in the xenomai_gid file via: cat

Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone linuxcnc error loading after trying other GUI

2014-01-12 Thread Josiah Morgan
thank you for the help. that seems to have fixed it. On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: It looks like you're a member of the xenomai group. The other piece of the puzzle is telling the kernel which gid is used for xenomai, which happens

Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone linuxcnc error loading after trying other GUI

2014-01-12 Thread Josiah Morgan
/sys/module/xeno_nucleus/parameters/xenomai_gid was somehow set to -1 resetting it with echo 999 /sys/module/xeno_nucleus/parameters/xenomai_gid fixed it On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: It looks like you're a member of the xenomai group.

Re: [Emc-users] Fwd: Re: Re: How do you change polarity of Step Pulses in MachineKit stepgen?

2014-01-12 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 1/12/2014 2:44 PM, Thomas Studwell wrote: Charles, I didn't see any reference to 'high' being a valid 'direction' using the virtual GPIO pins, so I added these to the end of the setup.sh file. If I get time later today or tomorrow, I'll update the script to process an optional 'level'

Re: [Emc-users] Fwd: Re: Re: How do you change polarity of Step Pulses in MachineKit stepgen?

2014-01-12 Thread Thomas Studwell
On 1/12/2014 3:57 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: On 1/12/2014 2:44 PM, Thomas Studwell wrote: Charles, I didn't see any reference to 'high' being a valid 'direction' using the virtual GPIO pins, so I added these to the end of the setup.sh file. If I get time later today or tomorrow, I'll

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC shows new, but runs old ngc program

2014-01-12 Thread jrmitchellj .
Yes, 2.5.3. I duplicated the issue again today. Also I noticed on the help/about page, there is not an entry for copywrite for 2013 (and 2014), so you may want to update that with the next release. Ray --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com (818)324-7573 “Normal people ... believe that

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC shows new, but runs old ngc program

2014-01-12 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 06:45:33PM -0800, jrmitchellj . wrote: Yes, 2.5.3. I duplicated the issue again today. Can you describe a step-by-step procedure that someone else can follow, that will show the problem occurring?