On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:34:42PM -0500, Igor Chudov wrote: > 1. What are the minimum hardware requirements for this software. For > example, would a 128 MB, 266 MHz computer be sufficient?
This is too little RAM to install from the Ubuntu Live CD image we provide, and you may find that your highest step rates are lower than GHz-range machines can achieve. You can probably still do 10000 steps per second (base_period = 50uS) which is OK for many machines that do not do microstepping. > 2. Can I somehow use EMC2 with regular Fedora Core linux, are the > realtime extensions very difficcult to get for Fedora? The reason for > this is that all my house runs Fedora linux on at least 4 computers. In the past it seemed like a big adventure to build a custom realtime-patched kernel and rtai. At the very least, you should feel like you are comfortable patching and recompiling the kernel, and building other software from source. There are instructions on our wiki for compiling rtai on several forms of debian, and while the instructions for what packages to get will not directly translate to RedHat/Fedora, you will get a good sense of the steps that must be taken to build the realtime stuff. http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Installing_EMC2 Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
