On Monday 11 August 2008, Steve Blackmore wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:06:09 -0400, you wrote:
>>On Monday 11 August 2008, Steve Blackmore wrote:
>>>On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:09:33 -0600, you wrote:
>>>>What do you expect the EMC volunteers to do to encourage new users?
>>>
>>>A fully working distro would be a good start :)
>>>
>>>I downloaded the latest live CD, it booted fine, however on loading EMC
>>>sim/lathe it froze the PC, only way out was the reset button.
>>>
>>>Sim axis works, but that's not what I'm looking for.
>>
>>Um, an editing session for that particular .ini file might be in order.
>> Start by adding another 0 to the BASE_THREAD period setting, too small a
>> value there will freeze the machine if the machine isn't fast enough.
>> Actually there are three PERIOD settings, add a zero to all 3. It may be
>> slow, but shouldn't freeze then.
>
>Bit of problem there Gene, it's the Live CD version, so can't edit the
>file. I don't want to risk writing configuration files over a working
>Windows/Mach3 machine which I was testing on. The PC is 3.2GHz AMD with
>2Gb of RAM so really shouldn't be slow.
>
Ahh so. Yes Steve, that s/b sufficient and then some. It then appears there
may be something wrong with the LiveCD version in that case.
--
Cheers, Gene
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