I went out to the shed, only washed an oz of sugar off because its raining, fired up a drill, moved the hole for the Z home switch mount about 4" closer to the chuck, then edited the ini file to change the search and latch vel signs so it would search away from the chuck to find the open switches closing point.
Now, I had updated the 2.5.4 on that machine over my ssh session 3 hours back, so this is the first time I had run this new code, but not the first time for 2.5.4. Now the Z axis is dead, motor alive and fairly well locked (driver has idle current cutdown), no response to the left-right arrow buttons it has used for about years. Checked a few things but it occurs to me that I have been using stepgen.1.**** to drive Z all this time as it is configured for XZ in the ini. And that used the left/right arrows to jog. Z also isn't responding to a home axis command (stuck forever in the mode and there is no activity in stepgen.1, for in's or out's. I didn't have sense enough to try the pageup-pagedown keys, but there is not a stepgen even loaded for that. Is this a bug, and I now have to load a third instance of steggen, and switch all the hal stuffs to stepgen.2 and use the up/down keys to run it? On a lathe, thats quite counterintuitive. Ideas? At this point I'm open. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
