[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm new to this group and also to EMC. > > I have just succesfully installed Ubuntu 6.0.6 and EMC and updated it to > 2.2 without problems. > > When I tried to configure EMC however, I was confronted to the latency > issue (close to 100 uS) mentioned in the docuentation, related to MSI > boards. > > My computer is a laptop Dell C610 Pentium III 1Ghz. I'm not sure what > kind of board or chipset it uses but it looks like if I'm suffering > exactely this issue, as when I run the latency test, the numbers are low > (in the region of 10 uS) but aproximately every 64 seconds, it has a > pick which tales latency up to close 100 uS as mentioned. > > I have followed the directions I got from linuxcnc.org page which > includes replacing the binary module rtai_smi.ko and modify rtapi_conf, > but when I tray to save this file with the changes done, I'm not > permited to save it as it is "read only" and apparently, I have no > permisions. > Run the editor from the command line, and prefix it with "sudo". The first time you use this after a period of time elapses, it will ask for your password. Use your normal user password. Hopefully your user account is listed in the file /etc/sudoers. if your account is "jim", then you should see something like this in that file : root ALL=(ALL) ALL
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