Hello, First, let me say that I am pretty new to CNC. I use a 3 axis mill (like this one <http://www.cnc-shop.ch/cnc6040.htm>) for 2 years now And English is not my native language ( i'm french ) so I may have misunderstood things. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
My current breakout board died because of a motor short-circuit. I was running it with ubuntu 12.04, xenomai kernel and "rtos-integration-preview3" branch. So I decided to go for a more reliable, better quality hardware, and bought a Mesa 5i25 / 7i76 and Gecko G203V drives. From what I understood, the 5i25 does what you call "hardware stepgen" and the computer latency numbers are much less critical than "software stepgen". right ? So I installed a Debian Wheezy with the rt_preempt kernel ( I was fed up with ubuntu 12.04 / xenomai that didn't let me install fglrx graphic driver ). So my main question is : what version of LinuxCNC can I install ? - the stable 2.5.2 ? From what I understood, it is RTAI-only. - master branch ? - rtos-integration-preview3 ? I am looking for something pretty stable, that can work with the rt_preempt kernel. Would I gain anything at using a xenomai or rtai kernel that have better latency numbers ? Even though I am not skilled coder at all, I have a look at devel mailinglist regularly, and it looks like you, guys, are doing a fantastic job. The new version that will run with multiple rt kernels looks like a major step forward. Shouldn't this upcoming version be granted a "LinuxCNC 3.0" name ? Thank you so much for your work. Christophe -- Christophe Grellier Guitares acoustiques 8 rue de Rouans - 44680 Chéméré Tél. 02.40.64.17.96 www.grellier.fr <http://www.grellier.fr> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
