Following on Peter's comment, check to see that the polarity (step vs space & direction timing) feeding the Geckos is correct. That is where I got into trouble building my setup a couple of years ago. It all looked good except for that erratic stepper behavior.
Ray --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. [email protected] (818)324-7573 “Truth is treason in the Empire of Lies.” — Ron Paul On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:06 AM, andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 June 2013 17:55, Hugh Currin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I spent a few minutes trying to configure it to use the PCI parallel > > card rather than the onboard parallel port. I found the card (lspci -v) > > but couldn't get it configured in LinuxCNC. The I/O ports are at 1000, > > 1010, 1018, 1020, 1028, & 1030 but I may have a format error when I > > enter these into the HAL file. > > Try 0x1000 (the addresses are in Hex). > > I am not sure what the problem is with the built-in parport though. > You could try inverting the pins on the parport? > > -- > atp > If you can't fix it, you don't own it. > http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
