Tuxcnc: It's difficult to respond when you have provided so little information.
It would be nice to know at the outset what your intentions are. Just saying you "care for a small system with no unnecessary software" is not very illuminating. To paraphrase Einstein, the system should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. On 9/26/2012 3:30 PM, tuxcnc wrote: > I installed Ubuntu mini from > http://www.ubuntu-mini-remix.org/download/10.04.1/ubuntu-mini-remix-10.04.1-i386.iso. Okay, so this is a minimalist installation that has almost nothing in the way of software we need to build LinuxCNC nor does it have a real-time kernel or its headers, so it is capable only of supporting a pre-built LinuxCNC simulator, and then only in text mode, as you echoes in your next sentence. > It is only text mode. > Dpkg shows that all dependencies are met. Dependencies of what, in particular? Dpkg deals with .deb packages. For what .deb package does dpkg show all dependencies are met? > I installed Xorg and Fluxbox, via apt-get. Okay, so now you have a minimalist installation that also has Xwindows and a meager window manager so it should support LinuxCNC GUIs, more or less. (At this point you have more or less what I have built on several ARM appliances in the past, so I'm generally familiar with it.) > Then LinuxCNC of buildbot. > 2.5 and next 2.6 too. What does this mean, exactly? At this point, you have no real-time kernel, and essentially none of the software needed for a build environment, so did you follow the instructions leading to "sudo apt-get install linuxcnc-sim"? > Still dpkg shows that all dependencies are met. Again, dependencies of what, exactly? > The program works only partially. > Can run and move the machine, but, for example, latency-test does not > run at all. When you say "can run and move the machine" I assume you mean you see things change in whatever LinuxCNC display you are using. (If you mean a real machine is moving under control, then stop reading now; I have no idea how you got to that.) If this is so then everything you've said from the beginning of your message up to the word "but" in this last sentence suggests you have succeeded in installing and running a LinuxCNC simulator on a non-realtime Linux system. What would you expect latency-test to test in this installation? On my non-realtime Ubuntu system, latency-test prints something like "Waiting for 'timedelta' to become ready" and then endlessly prints a period/fullstop line after line after line. Is this what you mean? It is expected. I'll leave the remainder of your message to answer some other time. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
