Re: [Emc-users] creating logic with lut5.9

2012-01-11 Thread Jeff Epler
This is interesting. Now, what if this was in the form of a 'loadusr'-able program? loadrt lut5 ... loadusr -w lut5_configure lut5.0 '(i2 and i1) or (not i2 and i0)' ... Jeff -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC: The new name of the Enhanced Machine Controller

2012-01-17 Thread Jeff Epler
We have registered new IRC channels on freenode that reflect the new project name. Please join us on #linuxcnc or #linuxcnc-devel. For the time being, users joining the old channels will be forwarded, but this may not be possible indefinitely. Jeff

[Emc-users] LinuxCNC: the sourceforge renaming

2012-01-18 Thread Jeff Epler
Sourceforge has a process for renaming projects that apply to circumstances like ours. When this is done, we expect most information presently on sourceforge to appear but at new URLs that reflect our project's new official name. The mailing lists will have also have new names (linuxcnc-users

Re: [Emc-users] Open letter to the EMC Board of Directors

2012-01-23 Thread Jeff Epler
Michael, I would like to address your concerns over the quality of the rebranding changes and the degree of consideration that they were given before they were made. I can speak only for myself here, and I have my linuxcnc developer hat on as I write this.. I don't have any trouble admitting

[Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-19 Thread Jeff Epler
In the board's original announcement of the rebranding of the project as LinuxCNC, we mentioned a future renaming of the SourceForge project, so that our mailing lists would be under the LinuxCNC name. However, the board has not yet filed this renaming request with sourceforge.net. Instead, we

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-21 Thread Jeff Epler
We presently host the primary webserver, forums, and wiki on dreamhost, and anticipate using this for mailing list and bug tracker hosting. Yesterday I took the time to investigate dreamhost's discussion list offerings more closely. I learned that: * There is a mass subscribe function, so that

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-21 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 05:59:58PM -0500, Kent A. Reed wrote: Finally, perhaps you've already addressed this, but will it be possible to leave forwarding addresses on the old sites, at least for a time, so that people directed to us by mostly old links from external sites will be able to

Re: [Emc-users] Two encoders difference

2012-03-04 Thread Jeff Epler
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 03:09:20PM +0200, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2012/3/4 Andrew parallel.kinemat...@gmail.com: Hello, I have two encoders on one axis, and I'd like to see the difference between their readings with hal scope. The first encoder is on the motor, it's 'axis.0.motor-pos-fb',

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-03-08 Thread Jeff Epler
The responses in this thread seem to have been pretty heavily in favor of moving to self-hosted service. The board will soon start on the behind-the-scenes work to make this a reality. We've looked around for mailing list archive software that is better than the basic mailman one (something that

Re: [Emc-users] Tool change question

2012-03-15 Thread Jeff Epler
I assume that you are talking about the script linked at http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ManualToolChangeMacro It looks like this version of the tool change script is a bit out of date with respect to LinuxCNC. LinuxCNC removed the need to specify [EMC]NML_FILE in the inifile in

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: LinuxCNC 2.5.0

2012-04-02 Thread Jeff Epler
Chris Seb, Thanks! Having been the release manager during 2.4, I am very aware of all the work that a release requires, and due to the rebranding 2.5 required even more work was in order for the packaging. Jeff --

Re: [Emc-users] hal 'net' command puzzler

2012-05-05 Thread Jeff Epler
Are we talking about this documentation? http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.5/html/hal/basic_hal.html#_net_a_id_sub_net_a if so, the syntax net signal-name pin-name opt-direction opt-pin-name doesn't really reflect what net will actually accept. I've revised the documentation to hopefully improve

Re: [Emc-users] Rotating blade question

2006-12-01 Thread Jeff Epler
You could configure your system as a 3-axis system, and hook nothing up to axis.3. in your HAL configuration. If you do this, you won't be able to see the position of the blade axis in the normal GUIs, but its position also won't be subject to the following error calculation. Jeff

Re: [Emc-users] AXIS download problem

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff Epler
If you are using an Ubuntu system, you can get the source for the version of AXIS shipped with emc 2.0.5 with apt: apt-get source emc2-axis If you are not using an Ubuntu system, you can get it in tar form: http://linuxcnc.org/emc2/dists/dapper/emc2/source/emc2-axis_1.4a0-0.2.tar.gz As

Re: [Emc-users] system requirements

2006-12-20 Thread Jeff Epler
Yes, a Pentium 4 is suitable for emc2. Jeff - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 parts missing?

2006-12-27 Thread Jeff Epler
Nope, nothing's missing. You've just discovered part of the documentation that is out of date. hal_parport is only available as a realtime module, halcmd loadrt hal_parport The path scripts/realtime applies to the old-fashioned way to install emc2 into a single directory, not the run

Re: [Emc-users] Command-line interface to EMC2

2006-12-29 Thread Jeff Epler
I've just put an example program, called jdi (just do it) on the AXIS blog: jdi.py is an example of controlling emc with a simple Python program that sends NML messages. It will turn off estop, turn the machine on, enter AUTO mode, open the named file, and then run it. While the

Re: [Emc-users] usb parallel port possible?

2006-12-30 Thread Jeff Epler
When emc uses a parallel port to send step and direction signals to a stepper motor driver, the signals must be received by the driver at precise intervals measured in microseconds. This is perfectly possible with most built-in or PCI-slot parallel ports, but it is simply not possible with a USB

Re: [Emc-users] manual tool change

2006-12-30 Thread Jeff Epler
The manual toolchange program is a part of the upcoming emc 2.1.0, and isn't in emc 2.0.5 or earlier. I hope that we'll soon have an easy-to-install alpha release of emc 2.1.0, but for now if you want to try out the newest features, you can do it by compiling from source.

Re: [Emc-users] parallel port initializing

2007-01-02 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:34:33PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To use pins 1, 14, 16, and 17 as inputs, you first need a parport that supports it, not all do. Then you need to specify x in the config string. And finally, you need to set the corresponding outputs high. [...] also, not all

Re: [Emc-users] TCL ad g-code preprocessor, How to?

2007-01-11 Thread Jeff Epler
When you ran ./configure it checked for the libraries and headers needed to compile axis. One of them must have been missing. re-run configure and look carefully at the output to find what is missing, install it, and finally re-run configure and make. Jeff

Re: [Emc-users] How to customize Axis Colors?

2007-01-16 Thread Jeff Epler
This warning stdin:2: warning: Illegal digit in octal number 008000 may be ignored. It does not appear to affect the functioning of the xrdb command. A bit more information: xrdb files may use C-style macros. This is done by invoking the C preprocessor. On Ubuntu LTS, the preprocessor that

Re: [Emc-users] Step Pulse Length

2007-01-23 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:19:43AM -0500, Chris wrote: My controller needs a step pulse of 2.5us i assume i have to change the value of stepgen.n.steplen for each axis? Yes. However, emc is probably obeying this requirement already. The default (and minimum!) value for steplen is 1

Re: [Emc-users] Xylotex Drives

2007-01-30 Thread Jeff Epler
Xylotex should work just fine (it is simply step+direction input), though I don't have any specific experience with those boards. If you do end up using these boards with emc2, please add a note to our wiki about your experience. Jeff

Re: [Emc-users] Xylotex Drives

2007-01-30 Thread Jeff Epler
The wiki is at http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/ I've added your information about the Xylotex boards to http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?EMC2_Supported_Hardware Jeff - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the

Re: [Emc-users] error 127

2007-02-01 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:44:13AM +0100, Aitor Plaza wrote: make: g++: Command not found Have you installed the compiler on your system? If you are using Ubuntu, you should use sudo apt-get build-dep emc2 to get all the required packages to build. If you're using some other system or method,

Re: [Emc-users] axis python interface

2007-02-01 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:12:02PM +0100, Michał Geszkiewicz wrote: Hello, I have question about python interface to emc2: Is there any way to change data inserted by command gcode.parse() ? or is a way to parse only a piece of lines without modifing others ? thanks for any answers

Re: [Emc-users] axis python interface

2007-02-01 Thread Jeff Epler
If you modify your g-code file on disk and then press run, emc will execute the copy from the disk, even if you did not press the reload button to update the preview. Jeff - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support

Re: [Emc-users] Hal comands....

2007-02-05 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:07:59AM -0800, osman fikri kocabas wrote: - do I need load the cvs sources and RTOS and RTAPI for use Hal commands? No. To use HAL, you only need to install the binary packages. I did copy of sample configurations.. With somes programs my cnc milling

Re: [Emc-users] Loadrt a new module error

2007-02-05 Thread Jeff Epler
Have you looked in dmesg for the actual insmod error? What other troubleshooting have you done? Jeff - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated

Re: [Emc-users] Package question

2007-02-06 Thread Jeff Epler
Please include the full error that you encountered. Jeff - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2.1 Live CD

2007-02-06 Thread Jeff Epler
On any Linux system, the command uname -r will show the version number of the running kernel. The version is probably 2.6.15-magma. Jeff - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get

Re: [Emc-users] Loadrt a new module error

2007-02-06 Thread Jeff Epler
A HAL component must call hal_ready(). halcmd loadrt is only suitable for loading HAL components, not non-HAL kernel modules. Jeff - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done

Re: [Emc-users] Command-line interface to EMC2

2007-02-07 Thread Jeff Epler
It's possible that 'open' is working, but axis isn't doing what you expect. If another UI (including emcrsh) opens a file, AXIS doesn't automatically load that file in its preview. If you want to open a file in AXIS to preview, you can use the script 'axis-remote' to do it. Jeff

Re: [Emc-users] position pid loop

2007-02-12 Thread Jeff Epler
The stepgen HAL module has a tuned feedback loop between the slow (servo) thread and the fast (base) thread, and it also has parameters to control the maximum acceleration and velocity. Whatever position command you give stepgen, it issues properly-spaced steps that track that position as closely

Re: [Emc-users] Getting Hal prompt back?

2007-02-13 Thread Jeff Epler
If you get the message realtime already running, then issue: halcmd unload all realtime stop the second command may need a path: /etc/init.d/realtime stop On my system (ubuntu 6.06, emc2.1-sim package, urxvt terminal) closing a terminal window where halrun is running doesn't lead to

Re: [Emc-users] ferror problem with emc 2.1.0

2007-02-13 Thread Jeff Epler
I was able to reproduce the problem using the configuration file you attached. When I increased the STEPGEN_MAXACCEL (headroom acceleration) to STEPGEN_MAXACCEL = 165.0 I did not see the problem anymore. Please try increasing the STEPGEN_MAXACCEL in all axes, and let us know if

Re: [Emc-users] Hal command failure

2007-02-16 Thread Jeff Epler
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 04:20:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also forgot to mention that when the command show param is issued, I only see siggen.0.update.time siggen.0.update.tmax I don't see the following parameters: siggen.0.amplitude siggen.0.frequency siggen.0.offset These

Re: [Emc-users] M0 vs Cycle start button

2007-02-24 Thread Jeff Epler
For emc2.1 systems with manual tool change, I recommend using 'hal_manualtoolchange'. This is demonstrated in the 'sim/axis' configuration. When you issue a tool change g-code like 'M6 T1', the machine goes to a location defined in the INI, then a dialog appears on the screen with a button for

Re: [Emc-users] M0 vs Cycle start button

2007-02-26 Thread Jeff Epler
It looks like the TOOL_CHANGE_POSITION can only set the XYZ location. The ABC location is hardcoded to be 0,0,0 (src/emc/task/emccanon.cc around line 1184 and src/emc/ini/initool.cc around line 77). Jeff - Take Surveys. Earn

Re: [Emc-users] EMC 2.1.1 released

2007-02-27 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:52:16AM -0500, WP wrote: Can you give me more detail on upgrading. Does EMC have an update manager? On Ubuntu, updates to emc show up in the operating system update manager. This usually appears as an indicator in the upper-right corner of the screen. Jeff

Re: [Emc-users] Programming EMC/HAL

2007-02-28 Thread Jeff Epler
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:16:59PM -0500, Gerry Chu wrote: Is it possible to get a copy of your HAL component just so I have some code to learn and start from? I think I've reinstalled that system since I was toying around with the idea, and wouldn't have backed up that file. Sorry. Jeff

Re: [Emc-users] Game port question

2007-03-03 Thread Jeff Epler
emc 2.1 (and maybe emc 2.0, I'm not sure) will use any linux-detected joystick. Refer to the hal_joystick manpage for more details. (http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.1/html/man/man1/hal_joystick.1.html or by typing 'man hal_joystic' at the shell prompt) You can tell if your joystick is detected by

Re: [Emc-users] Install problems

2007-03-05 Thread Jeff Epler
... use apt to install additional packages required to rebuild emc2: sudo apt-get build-dep emc2 ... http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Installing_EMC2#Preparing_Ubuntu_to_compile_emc2 Jeff -

Re: [Emc-users] Ubuntu 6.10?

2007-03-06 Thread Jeff Epler
Why aren't there packages for Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft? - We have chosen to use 6.06 because it's a long term support (LTS) release. If you use it, you can be sure of support and security fixes from the Ubuntu team for 3-5 years. However, we would

Re: [Emc-users] Hal Implementation of a different enable

2007-03-06 Thread Jeff Epler
Why not use 'halcmd show' to investigate this problem for yourself? Jeff - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT

Re: [Emc-users] Micha's double lines.

2007-03-07 Thread Jeff Epler
If your g-code crashes emc, it is not (only) a bug in your CAD or CAM software. We would still like an example program so that we can correct the crash, no matter whether the g-code that causes it could be considered low quality or useless for actual milling. Jeff

Re: [Emc-users] Error-Unexpected realtime delay

2007-03-08 Thread Jeff Epler
The wiki gives some suggestions on bios, software, and hardware changes to get rid of this message. But I just want to point out one thing: [42446.696284] PARPORT: installed driver for 3 ports [42706.533177] 263103: ERROR: Unexpected realtime delay: check dmesg for details the first number

Re: [Emc-users] [Fwd: Jog wheel ?]

2007-03-09 Thread Jeff Epler
John, I can't make any promises, but I believe that hal_input, which will be a part of emc 2.2, will support most HID devices recognized by Linux. How's your Linux and emc expertise level? You should be able to try out this driver with emc 2.1 by copying a few files from the development version:

Re: [Emc-users] connection from display to hal

2007-03-09 Thread Jeff Epler
This sounds like a good idea. I have added this feature to the development version of AXIS, for eventual inclusion in emc 2.2. The new HAL pin will be named 'axisui.jog.increment'. Jeff - Take Surveys. Earn Cash.

Re: [Emc-users] display to hal connection

2007-03-10 Thread Jeff Epler
Unfortunately, this new feature builds on other new features added since emc 2.1 was released, so there is no simple way to add only this one feature to emc 2.1. You can try the development version by downloading the source and building it yourself, but it can be unstable at times since it is

Re: [Emc-users] More gecko bridgeport Questions

2007-03-11 Thread Jeff Epler
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:04:42PM -0800, Mike :0) wrote: What all does the G-rex do? There is no emc driver for the g-rex, so exactly what it does is immaterial. Jeff - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT

Re: [Emc-users] Unexpected realtime delay

2007-03-12 Thread Jeff Epler
Perhaps it helps to know what 'rmmod' does: $ man rmmod rmmod(8) NAME rmmod — simple program to remove a module from the Linux Kernel [... much more information snipped ...] Jeff - Take Surveys.

Re: [Emc-users] The Wrong-way DIR Signal - Possibly Solved!

2007-03-15 Thread Jeff Epler
You can also read the emc mailing lists at the (slightly misnamed) http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.emc.user http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.emc.devel I notice John K's message lamenting the quality of the sourceforge archive has already appeared there.

Re: [Emc-users] Minefields and...

2007-03-17 Thread Jeff Epler
Here's an article hosted on xilinx's website about developing GPL software (including Verilog source code as well as, apparently, a full embedded Linux system): http://www.xilinx.com/publications/xcellonline/xcell_46/xc_pdf/xc_freesw46.pdf it sounds quite interesting! Jeff

Re: [Emc-users] EMC 2.1.3 released

2007-03-18 Thread Jeff Epler
If you don't enjoy the minutae of working with CVS, it's a great time to go back to using the prepackaged version -- updates to emc appear automatically. Otherwise, instructions to check out a fresh copy of the 2.1.3 source with CVS are on the wiki:

Re: [Emc-users] Module load error

2007-03-25 Thread Jeff Epler
Hal:5:ERROR: Can't find module 'trikins' in Hal config file /etc/emc2/sample-configs/unipwm//univpwm_load.hal failed ^^^ this should be trivkins (TRIVial KINematicS) Jeff - Take

Re: [Emc-users] Another Look at SPI

2007-03-28 Thread Jeff Epler
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Installing_EMC2#On_Ubuntu_5_10_and_6_06_from_source Jeff - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to

Re: [Emc-users] Obsolete header file

2007-03-29 Thread Jeff Epler
Apply this patch, which is not included on the emc 2.1 branch: http://cvs.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/emc2/src/hal/hal_lib.c.diff?r1=1.52;r2=1.53 Jeff - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join

Re: [Emc-users] increment doesn't change

2007-03-29 Thread Jeff Epler
Thank you for your report. I can also reproduce the problem. I filed a report on sourceforge with a proposed patch https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1690950group_id=6744atid=106744 but I will leave it to someone who knows more about tkemc to test it and actually add

Re: [Emc-users] Abort messes up position

2007-03-30 Thread Jeff Epler
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:26:50PM -0500, Andy Holcomb wrote: Are the key short cuts in AXIS? like c,i,r and p? http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gui/axis/index.html#SECTION0014 Keyboard Controls Almost all actions in AXIS can be accomplished with the keyboard. A full

Re: [Emc-users] Ubuntu 7.04

2007-04-24 Thread Jeff Epler
The easy way is to use Ubuntu 6.06, because otherwise you must build your own real-time kernel and emc packages---the emc developers do not provide packages for 7.04. For more information on how to build these packages yourself, see our wiki:

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 failed to initialize

2007-04-24 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:58:53PM +0700, Dominikus Budiwibowo wrote: insmod: error inserting '/usr/realtime-2.6.15-magma/modules/emc2/hal_parport.ko': -1 Device or resource busy This may be the problem described here:

Re: [Emc-users] Probing

2007-04-30 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:15:33PM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote: BTW: Can I tell EMC2 to automatically go to a specified position on M06 execution so that I could change the tool manually, waiting for confirmation from me? I might have overlooked it, but I couldn't find this information in the

Re: [Emc-users] Turning tiny bits...solution?

2007-05-10 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:44:45PM -0400, Dean Hedin wrote: My next problem is that I have discovered that the steppers on this machine are 5 phase. Granted, These are very precise German made stepper motors but I don't think I will be able to find a low cost controller to drive them.

Re: [Emc-users] How to

2007-05-18 Thread Jeff Epler
Ubuntu is distributed over the Internet as CD image files, called ISOs. To install Ubuntu, you first need to burn its ISO file onto a CD. You need a working CD/DVD burner and an 80 minute (700 Mb) CD for this. This page explains how you can do it using Windows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu and Kubuntu.

Re: [Emc-users] Multi I/O Driver support - kernel patch

2007-05-21 Thread Jeff Epler
emc does not use the linux kernel's parallel port driver, so patching the kernel for your PCI parallel card won't work and won't change anything. Here is the experience of one user with a NetMos chipset PCI parallel card: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?NetMos after finding the

Re: [Emc-users] estop writes to toolchange pin out?

2007-05-21 Thread Jeff Epler
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:24:07PM -0400, Alfred Smart wrote: When I put my mill into estop it writes to iocontrol.0.tool-change pin out is this a bug? I tested with emc 2.1.4, configs/sim/axis.ini, using halscope to trigger on rising or falling edges of iocontrol.0.tool-change and found the

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe Threading in EMC

2007-05-24 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 05:46:02AM -0700, Isak Levinson wrote: Does the index output need to be one pulse per revolution? Can it be similar to what there is in mach2 program: several pulses per rev with one pulse wider than the others. Right now, only a spindle with encoder and index pulse

Re: [Emc-users] estop writes to toolchange pin out? more testing

2007-05-24 Thread Jeff Epler
Please make sure you are running the latest version of emc, which is currently emc 2.1.5. It includes fix for bug 1701900 - spindle does not turn off when going into machine-off state. Information about changes in each release: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Released How to

Re: [Emc-users] user manual, image2g-code

2007-05-25 Thread Jeff Epler
Hello. I'm the author of image-to-gcode, and I'm happy to answer your questions. Thanks for reading the manual first, by the way, even if it didn't answer your questions. (and it looks like the screen shot doesn't match the current version of the program -- whoops!) When image-to-gcode is

Re: [Emc-users] user manual, image2g-code

2007-05-26 Thread Jeff Epler
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 06:20:45PM -0500, Jeff Epler wrote: Then when it complets that row, it moves down by Stepover pixels to do the same thing over again. If you want to move down by about .05 inches each time, and you specified a Pixel Size of .005, you would choose a stepover of 16

Re: [Emc-users] Should I use Classic Ladder?

2007-05-29 Thread Jeff Epler
If you think the task can be done either way, the choice of using classicladder or writing your own realtime component as a .comp or .c file is yours. Personally I am not skilled at creating ladder diagrams, so I'd write a .comp. We've tried to make installing your own components easy, using

Re: [Emc-users] Problem with LiveCD ISO image file?

2007-06-05 Thread Jeff Epler
The correct md5sum for that file is 2b99a5eb6b38d6bebcc1fa1b37ba7075 emc2-ubuntu6.06-desktop-i386.iso and the size is 692107264 bytes. I just verified this, both on a copy on my local system (downloaded a few months ago) and on the copy stored on the linuxcnc.org webserver. Jeff

Re: [Emc-users] Text editor

2007-06-05 Thread Jeff Epler
On Ubuntu 6.06, it looks like the package name for gvim is vim-gui-common. apt support for offline operation seems to be pretty poor, but maybe I've simply never read the right documentation. The basis for offline operation seems to be apt-get --print-uris, but I've never had to use this. Jeff

Re: [Emc-users] EMC Live-CD - how to burn ?

2007-06-11 Thread Jeff Epler
Ubuntu is distributed over the Internet as CD image files, called ISOs. To install Ubuntu, you first need to burn its ISO file onto a CD. You need a working CD/DVD burner and an 80 minute (700 Mb) CD for this. This page explains how you can do it using Windows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu and Kubuntu. If the

Re: [Emc-users] [Fwd: Jog wheel ?]

2007-06-14 Thread Jeff Epler
Here at the CNC workshop I had an opportunity to plug in a device which identifies as I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0b33 Product=0020 Version=0117 N: Name=Contour Design ShuttleXpress The bottom of the device says Shuttle Xpress Model No. S-XPRS S/N: 0 0 4 7 x x x and there doesn't seem

Re: [Emc-users] [Fwd: Jog wheel ?]

2007-06-14 Thread Jeff Epler
It seems that others were seeing this behavior from the shuttlexpress as far back as 2004: http://lists.ardour.org/pipermail/ardour-dev-ardour.org/2004-February.txt.gz Jeff - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express

Re: [Emc-users] [Fwd: Jog wheel ?]

2007-06-15 Thread Jeff Epler
If it is actually being sent from the device, I'm sure the Linux kernel is suppressing the relative axis changed by zero counts message to hal_input. If the OS didn't take care to do this (something that always makes sense with a device that is actually a relative axis) I'm sure it would work a

Re: [Emc-users] Source of tort.ngc?

2007-06-18 Thread Jeff Epler
There is some form of that script in scripts/torture.py -- but I am not 100% sure that this is the exact version used to generate nc_files/tort.ngc. Jeff - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C

Re: [Emc-users] Computer hardware questions (many)

2007-06-19 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 04:10:18AM -0700, Craig wrote: How much memory is required to install form the CD? The Ubuntu documentation says that the official CD requires 256MB, but some people have had trouble with less than 320MB and our live installer CD. If you're on a lower-memory machine,

Re: [Emc-users] AXIS touch-off numeric keypad

2007-06-23 Thread Jeff Epler
The numeric keypad behaves much better in axis in the development version of emc2. These improvements will be a part of emc 2.2 when it is released. Jeff - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express

Re: [Emc-users] Driver for Winbond W83627hf GPIO?

2007-07-01 Thread Jeff Epler
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 09:40:54PM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote: This board uses an AMD Geode LX and provides both a standard parallel port and GPIO pins (exported from the Winbond W83627hf Super I/O Controller). The driver for this chip in drivers/hwmon/w83627hf.c provides access to these GPIO

Re: [Emc-users] Printer

2007-07-05 Thread Jeff Epler
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:23:40PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: Can any one tell me how to get my epson printer to work with emc2??? If this is a USB printer, then you should have success simply by following the general instructions for Ubuntu

[Emc-users] setp requires 2 arguments, 3 given (was Re: homing)

2007-07-06 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:51:52PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: So, I decided to update my Bridgeport to the current CVS, and I got a HAL error setp requires 2 arguments, 3 given This was a collection of configs files that worked before. I can't find this 3rd argument, even looked for

Re: [Emc-users] Index Not Working With UnivPWM Controller

2007-07-09 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 12:02:25PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: Stepgen has a position-cmd input, but you really want to feed it a velocity. I suppose you could keep your own position counter, and increment or decrement it every servo cycle to generate steps at the desired rate. Probably you

Re: [Emc-users] Axis 2.1.6 jogging always uses inches?

2007-07-09 Thread Jeff Epler
In emc2/axis 2.1, the units for incremental jogs are always the machine native units (e.g., inifile units). In 2.2, it will be possible to set the units of each increment, including a mixture: [DISPLAY] INCREMENTS = 1 mm, .01 in, .1mm, 1 mil, .1 mil, 1/8000 in While a better choice in

Re: [Emc-users] Axis 2.1.6 jogging always uses inches?

2007-07-10 Thread Jeff Epler
Yes, the code is in the development version. (cvs TRUNK) I don't recommend using TRUNK on any production machine. At most times, new features can be added to TRUNK, and that means it will occasionally be completely broken or have grave bugs. Jeff

Re: [Emc-users] CNC4PC C10 Breakout Board

2007-07-24 Thread Jeff Epler
Based on the description of the board, I see no reason why it would not work with emc's hal_parport in I or O mode. It would not work with boards like the Universal Stepper Controller or Pluto Servo Controller which use the parallel port in EPP mode. It also would not work with hal_parport in X

Re: [Emc-users] ACCEPTED SECONDED NOMINATION: Jeff Epler

2007-07-24 Thread Jeff Epler
I accept the nomination and thank you for your kind words. I intend to continue improving emc over the next year, and if serving on the board of directors is another way I can do that, I'm happy to get a chance to do it. Jeff

Re: [Emc-users] SECONDED NOMINATION: Alex Joni

2007-07-24 Thread Jeff Epler
In addition to the things Sam mentioned, Alex brings an international flavor to emc development. He also really understands teamwork. While most of the developers simply try to make sure they're not stepping on anybody's toes, Alex will pop up and offer to do the tedious part of a project (be it

Re: [Emc-users] Compile genhexkins.c as a executable

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff Epler
My commandline was intended for the development version of emc2. In version 2.1, it appears that the posemath functions are in the library 'libnml'. In the next version, the posemath functions are split out into a separate library. You also need to use g++, not gcc, to link this program in any

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 15, Issue 32

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff Epler
It looks like libgtk2.0-dev is already listed in the Build-Depends of emc2.1 packages, emc2 TRUNK, and emc2-cvs-build-dep. Jeff - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find

Re: [Emc-users] EMC Convert???

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff Epler
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 09:32:41AM -0400, Jerry Jankura wrote: Does EMC support the G33 threading capability? I'll be adding CNC to my lathe and will probably use TurboCNC there if EMC doesn't. Yes, emc 2.1 has G33 spindle-synchronized motion and G76 canned threading cycle. emc 2.2 will have

Re: [Emc-users] EMC 2.1.7 released

2007-07-30 Thread Jeff Epler
Here is one short program that was affected by the bug in G64 P- that has now been fixed: g64 p0.01 g0z.1 g0x.1y.1z.1 g1z0 f99 g1z.1 g0x.2y.2z.1 g1z0 g1z.1 g0x.3y.3z.1 g1z0 g1z.1 m2 Jeff

Re: [Emc-users] Help sought to modify hostmotXX.vhd

2007-07-30 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 05:38:08PM +0100, paul_c wrote: Stephen - If/when you get elected to the board and succeed in restoring the CVS repository at Sourceforge where we ALL can have access, I'll show you how to handle firmware. FUD FUD FUD Here's what the board had to say the first time

Re: [Emc-users] Stand Alone Interpreter

2007-07-31 Thread Jeff Epler
The stand-alone interpreter is only in the CVS TRUNK version of emc. The executable file is called rs274. Jeff - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now

Re: [Emc-users] SourceForge, EMC and the board

2007-07-31 Thread Jeff Epler
If you have trouble with reliability of the sourceforge mailing list archives, try the archives at these locations: http://www.mail-archive.com/emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/ http://gmane.org/info.php?group=gmane.linux.distributions.emc.user Jeff

Re: [Emc-users] [Re: Run from here]

2007-08-03 Thread Jeff Epler
You could enter the move you want (e.g., G0Z10) in MDI mode before you Set Next Line. Jeff - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and

Re: [Emc-users] emc on an imac g3

2007-08-03 Thread Jeff Epler
Without substantial work (a port of the RTAI realtime kernel to the G3's processor), you will not be able to run realtime software such as emc. Even if you did this, it doesn't look like you can use any emc-supported I/O hardware (such as parallel-port or PCI cards) in that machine, so you still

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