Hi all. Beeing fully conscious of my ignorance of internals of EMC2, I'm now seeking a mercyfull hand :-)
Please forgive also my awfull english, I do my best :-) I tried several hours to use tutorials showing the use a Joypad to jog an XYZ machine. The joypad I bought ressembles a lot the one pictured on wiki, and is prefectely detected as the SAITEK is. It's USB name is "Jess Technologies" but this issue put aside, they were eventually both casted in the same injection press... There is 3 examples in the wiki doc, but none is satisfaying: - One use deprecated "hal_joystick" driver, and causes errors in hal file loading, i.e without working or crashing EMC with a nice tombstone 5 seconds after launch; - One is so complicated that it perfectly fits... it's writer's needs, but also produces errors during loading, leading to nothing; - One uses a custom made driver for non-linerarity purpose. And also doesn't work. Am I the only one who tries to connect a /dev/input/js0 device to EMC2 to move manually the axis without mouse-clicking ? With HAL meter inside axis, I don't even see the pins that are eventually presented by "hal_input" or "hal_joystick" when shown by halrun. Of course my ".ini" file seems coherent, and references my "joypad.hal" file. I guess that there is a ten-line halfile to use a joypad to jog a XYZ machine within axis, which will connect the output pins of the joypad to the input pins of jogging subroutine, but I wonder which :-) Is there someone around there using a REALLY simple (simplistic I would say) XYZ jogging with axis and a joypad perfectly tested by all available probes ? I use the 6.x UBUNTU BDI CD, on Athlon X64 and fairly new ASUS MoBo. The 8.x UBUNTU doesn't even load axis, crashing immediately, so 6.x release is the good and only choice :-) Regards, Chris. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
