Flying Electron wrote:
> I don't know about Ubuntu 9.10, but the directions for getting EMC to
> run on a fresh install of 8.04 have always worked for me.  It might be
> easier to use the proven Ubuntu 8.04 instead of the 9.10.
>    
Unfortunately, I'm betting that the hardware mentioned is too new to 
have adequate driver support in 8.04.  There are some experimental 
kernel/emc2 packages for Karmic at 
<http://www.linuxcnc.org/experimental/Karmic/>.  I don't know if the 
kernel is SMP or not, it's not labeled as such in the file name.

You don't need any of the emc2-firmware* files, unless you have a Mesa 
card.  You also don't need emc2-dev unless you want to do development 
work (you'll need to apt-get build-dep emc2 also, if you do want to 
compile emc2 for yourself).  Otherwise, you need all the files that 
don't have the word "source" in them (emc2, librtai*, linux image and 
headers, rtai modules, rtai 3.8, maybe rtai doc).  Once you've 
downloaded them, select them all in the file browser, right-click and 
select "Install using GDebi".  From the command line, go to the 
directory where you downloaded them and type "sudo dpkg -i *.deb" 
(assuming those are the only files in the directory).

Note that these packages are experimental, and that you won't get 
automatic update notifications for them.  Hopefully we'll support 9.10, 
or more likely 10.04, with emc2 2.4.

Hope this helps
- Steve


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