when playing around with the 7i80 - I used this apt-get install :) I had been compiling this for a while now. (I was confused too with linuxcnc said I needed)
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libpth-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev tcl-dev tk-dev bwidget libreadline-dev python-tk python-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libxmu-dev libudev-dev libmodbus-dev libboost-python-dev libboost-serialization-dev libboost-thread-dev http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Mesa7i80_Driver_For_Linuxcnc_On_Xenomai sam On 07/08/2013 05:07 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetingg Sam; > > I followed along for the 2nd time installing the xenomai kernel, and > building lcnc for RIP. > > This time on a fresh kubuntu-12.04.2 install. > > Gotcha's, in no particular order so far: > > dpkg-chkbuilddeps output a lengthy list, but I had to remove the mesa libs > from the list in order to get that apt-get install (long list) to complete. > It seems the libgl is a meta package, and cannot be removed. It also was > not listed on the synaptic screen, invisible. > > But leaving them out was not reported in a subsequent run of dpkg- > chkbuilddeps, so I proceeded with the top of page 3 of the NewRTInstall > instructions. > > However, kubuntu seems to have a cache problem with the group file even > after the adduser has been run, and the file then checked to make sure it > worked, so at that point, runtests was a 100% fail. > > After the reboot, I re-ran the rip-environmant script and runtests passed > 100%. > > I skipped the lp unload, and proceeded to run linuxcnc, selecting the > sim/axis profile. > > Here it goes stubs its toe and exits, there is not, in the kubuntu repos, a > plain pango, a plain cairo, or a pangocairo. So the python script bails > out and returns you to the terminal screen. > > So how is this to be solved? > > Probably by adding some ubuntu repos to sources.list?, as I had no such > problems running it on a hacked up ubuntu-12.04.2 LTS install that I blew > away. > > Now, put this in your trivia file: It is not possible without some heavy > duty hacking, protected by doing a chattr +i on the working > /etc/resolv.conf file IF you choose to install either ubuntu 12.04.2 or > kubuntu-12.4.2 from the "install now" button on the first, small screen the > install media shows you. > > You MUST hit the "try it now" button on that little postcard sized screen, > let it boot completely up from the optical media. Go make coffee, it will > take a while. :) > > Then you can configure the network, then install from the icon on that > screen, and the networking will be ok on the install reboot. > > I think that is the list of stumbles. > > Now; > > Anybody here know anything about memory drivers? When I had 4Gb in this > box, the bios memory scan reported that it was 4Gb and operating in ganged > mode. I just put 8g of memory in this box, ddr2 800 stuff but each stick > is now 2G rather than 1G/stick. > > Now its reporting 8Gb ok, but 'unganged', which tells me its only half as > fast on operation. Maybe I worry for nothing, it passed 2 full cycles of > memtest86, and TBT the machine just plain feels more stable than this > 10-04.4 LTS install has ever been. Its into swap a gig or more at a 2 week > uptime, and kmail needs restarted daily else it gets to going to sleep on > me for minutes at a time. > > I've dug around in the bios without finding anything there that looks like > its something I might be qualified to putz with. > > Ideas anybody, or am I barking at the moon here? > > Cheers, Gene ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
