Hi, Thanks for the replies.
Alex, using Xen has done the trick as far as starting and stopping the spindle from G-code but I have now lost the MDI buttons to control it manually. I've tried to re-jig the various signals/pins to recover this but, once again, I've failed miserably - so far... What I'd really like to achieve is what I have now plus the kind of MDI control and speed indication in the 'sim lathe' configuration which accompanies the EMC2 install (although I think a vertical bar graph would be preferable to the horizontal one which seems to use up too much screen). Kirk, I have posted my 'lathe.hal' and 'lathe.ini' files on pastebin at *http://tinyurl.com/5jq4e6 *I'm not sure how I would link to a previous post other than to say that the first relevant post was message 1 in Emc-users Digest, Vol 27, Issue 25 ( I've copied it onto pastebin at http://tinyurl.com/6yafbv ). This post also contained links to photos of my machine on my website at:- * * http://tinyurl.com/5ccrk6 and http://tinyurl.com/672fpr The other significant posts are in Emc-users Digest, Vol 27, Issue 35 where John kindly took me by the hand and set me on the right road.... My computer hardware is a PC with a 1.7GHz AMD Duron processor, 1Gb RAM and a couple of 160Gb hard drives. On my 'production machine' I'm running the Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake version loaded from a live CD image. I also have a similar 'development machine' running the Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron version. I don't know why I'm having so much trouble getting to grips with HAL, I'm sure it should be easy but I get completely confused when every little change I make to the HAL file seems to gain me a load of new pins/signals/parameters and lose as many others.... I have been trying to find my original documentation for EMC to see if that would help but I can't find it and the link to John's description of how it works from the main EMC2 website is down. -- Best wishes, Ian ____________ Ian W. Wright Sheffield UK "The difference between theory and practice is much smaller in theory than in practice..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
