Yes Sven you are dead right, the mistake I was making was trying to do it
using Nero SmartStart which would have been alright if I had closed the
window that appears and gone straight to Recorder then Burn Image. However I
did persivere and eventually work it out. I have now had Ubuntu+EMC2
Inside the ini file you are using there are the following lines:
#HALFILE = xylotex_pinout.hal
HALFILE = standard_pinout.hal
simlpy remove the comment character '#' from the first line, and add it to
the second one.
Regards,
Alex
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First off I have managed to get EMC2 Live loaded onto a computer and
running. Lots of changes since the last time I looked at EMC, I really
like the graphics in the AXIS interface, makes debugging programs a lot easier.
I did translate a program that was running on a Fanuc control and got it
--- John Kasunich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stephen Wille Padnos wrote:
# connect index pulses to motion controller
# do these when index pulsing is figured out
net Xindex axis.0.index-enable ppmc.0.encoder.00.index-enable
net Xindex axis.1.index-enable ppmc.0.encoder.01.index-enable
Jon Elson wrote:
Actually, he's got the PPMC, the analog servo board set.
But, the problems are the same, it all is in the encoder handling.
With the Gecko drive, the encoders are powered off the Gecko,
and there could be noise issues with trying to hook the index
signal to the USC board. I
Hi all,
After the success I've had with EMC2 and my minimill, I've decided to take a
whack at converting a little Prazi 5x12 lathe I have. So far I've got it
steppered and I have procured a PC on which I've installed EMC2 from the live
CD. So far so good.
On the minimill I'm using a PMDX
The only difference is I us hardware estop force estop sense low, and when I
release my estop button ,estop sense goes high and then I turn the machine on
through the gui halui and off she goes ,I'm running EMC2.6.15 halui_halvcp
configs My (standard pinout) file is below your response Jon