Ted Hyde wrote: > Does anyone have a working 7i43 setup (with hostmot2) currently? (Eric? > Anders? Peter?) I shifted from step/dir drives to servo and added the 7i43 > card to my system. I was previously running a functional, > fully-updated-to-11Oct08 Ubuntu 8.04, EMC2 2.2.6 system with step/dir > (stepper-mm, modified) to the onboard parallel port of my Epia 10000 board, > and have started the "Slow move" to full closed loop servo. The Ubuntu > install was originally from a LiveCD.
I have the 7i43 working well, on the TRUNK. The version in 2.2.6 can be made to work, but not as well. <snip> > When this is run (either manually typing or loading from CL, the 7i43 inits, > loads and "reacts" as expected; done and init flash, and go out. 7i43 is set > for EPP config, power always on, external 5v (with external 5v connected!) > Epia parport is set for EPP mode in BIOS. My sandbox was obviously > symlinked, else the firmware wouldn't have been found. Great! And thanks for the great description of your setup. > Now, when I view 047.out on halmeter, and toggle it with some setp, it > changes as expected, on the halmeter. Also as expected, it does not output > to the board, as the rt threads aren't actually running. So I type start, > and the system locks up; no kbd, no mouse, video freeze. Siggen is just > there for what would be my next stage (pin strobing) - if I could get > there... Ugh, that's no good. This is the first crash report for the 7i43 driver, other users (including me) have not observed this... Please try disconnecting everything from the 7i43 except the EPP cable. Disconnect the cables from P3 and P4. What is the source of the external 5V power? If it's a different power supply than what's powering the PC, that might be a problem. Does your PC have a USB port? If so, try powering the 7i43 from the PC via a USB cable. > I have read recently that the 7i43 support is still ongoing, and all the > "good stuff" is in the trunk, not release, so I went and pulled down the > HEAD (which showed the most recent entries to the hostmot2 components - 6 > days ago). Couldn't compile it - so many packages missing with the LiveCD > install (I stopped counting at 14!) - Python and OpenGL were the main > unresolvable culprits; even tried to configure with Python disabled > (--disable-python) - still wouldn't finish out. An attempted make did break > my EMC2 build. So time to wipe. Hm, i dont know if the debian build-deps for emc2 are up-to-date in TRUNK... Alex or Jeff, do you know? In any case, try installing (with "apt-get install" the packages listed in the Build-Depends lines of the debian/control.in file. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky Distances obtained as the speed of light multiplied by a cosmological time interval have no direct physical significance. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
