On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Dave Camarillo wrote:
> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:39:49 -0700
> From: Dave Camarillo <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
> <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] HAL setup of Mesa 4i65
>
> Hi Peter, thanks for the info. We finally got around to messing with
> this again. We did a couple things:
>
> 1) Set the 4i65 jumpers back to their default positions, that was
> definitely part of the issue...
> 2) Updated BIOS
> 3) set jumpers on the motherboard relating to PCI/ISA bus configuration.
>
> After doing so, the new 'lspci' output is
> 01:07.0 Bridge [0680]: PLX Technology, Inc. PCI9030 32-bit 33MHz PCI
> <-> IOBus Bridge [10b5:9030]
> Subsystem: PLX Technology, Inc. Unknown device [10b5:3132]
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>> TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
> Region 0: Memory at fdcff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
> Region 1: I/O ports at df00 [size=128]
> Region 2: I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
> Region 3: I/O ports at da00 [size=256]
> Region 4: Memory at fdcd0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> Region 5: Memory at fdce0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 0
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=3 PME-
That looks a lot heathier!
>
>
> We found that the EMC2.2.8 build that is in the normal package tree
> was having problems loading the HAL kernel modules, kernel null
> pointer de-reference errors. We cloned the git repo and went to
> v2.3.4-pre and those issues went away...
There are also lots of fixed bugs in the stepgenerator in 2.3.3+
>
> We were able to get the sample 4i65 stepper configs working,
> generating step/direction outputs and driving our 10amp stepper motor,
> man that thing is noisy w/ micro stepping disabled! Anyway, were
> continuing to refine the config and get all the details flushed out.
>
> Thanks again for all your help, it's much appreciated!
Welcome, glad you got it going!
>
> Best Regards,
> -Dave Camarillo
>
>
Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics
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