On Monday 26 September 2016 22:49:15 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I gave up on trying to just copy my TLM's config over to the Sheldons > computer, mainly because I've not yet installed home switches and > such. > > But I need to be able to exercise this BoB, and find all my signals if > I can. Something I haven't had a lot of luck finding because mach uses > totally different parport pin assignments. But the board still has 17 > available pins, 11 outs and 5 in's, so I figure if I tickle it and > watch with a scope, I ought to be able to find them, right? > > So I fired up pncconf and built me a bare bones config based on metric > measurements. It has one pwmgen for feeding the vfd. Only one > direction ATM, but I can sort that by grabbing pin 17 at some point. > NBD to me. > > However, when I attempt to run this config, I get konsole messages: > ===================================== > check_config: ERROR > (Using identity kinematics: trivkins) > [JOINT_1]MIN_LIMIT > [AXIS_Z]MIN_LIMIT (-200.0 > -1e99) > [JOINT_1]MAX_LIMIT < [AXIS_Z]MAX_LIMIT (800.0 < 1e99) > > check_config validation failed > LinuxCNC terminated with an error. You can find more information in > the log: > /home/gene/linuxcnc_debug.txt (its empty) > and > /home/gene/linuxcnc_print.txt (the usual blather that is zero > info) ================================================ > So I fired up geany and added what I think are sane limits in both > axis's, and theres an entry in each axis AND each joint (seems one > ought to sufficient, and I suppose once I check the syntax, and add it > to this hal file, the other copy can be removed). > > Zero difference. > > Fire up geany to look at the syntax used to bring that data into hal. > > No such critter, totally missing from the pncconf generated hal file. > So hal presumes everything is -1e99 from the message above. > > I think this is a pncconf bug. Can we call the Orkin Man? :-) > No, not an obvious one at least. TLM's config does not contain that either. And it works, works well. So big old dummy did something wrong. Anybody got a clue-bat?
Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
