Hi Hakan, Thanks for the feedback, I’ve commented on the parts I have some knowledge of.
> On 16 Jun 2016, at 11:41, Håkan Båstedt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for all the work on the documentation. > I am trying to follow that to set up Machinekit on a Beaglebone with CRAMPS. > First time ever, never used Machinekit or Beaglebone although I am pretty > fluent in Linux > and know some related things from working with 3d printers, but anyway. > > I will give some feedback here. > 1. Which image to use? There are several options, but really I would like to > have a recommendation. I chose jessie. IMO you chose the right one. > 2. I think the point with configuring apt is not 100% correct when it comes > to libczmq-dev. I failed to follow the instructions > to use "sid". Instead it now seems that libczmq-dev is available in jessie so > that part is not needed. I messed around > quite a bit trying to follow the instructions, so can't be 100% though. > 3. Flashing the image to eMMC - I don't know if it has been done. Should I do > it? Seems info in uEnv.txt doesn't match. I prefer to keep my image on the SD where I can make backups of the SD, or try another image. But that’s personal. > 4. First at this point it was clear to me that I was using xenomai and that > was the version to install. Are you going to do development on the BBB? if not, you shouldn’t have to install anything. > 5. I was running this without a screen, so tightvncserver was installed. That > wasn't good enough due to lacking OpenGL. > x11vnc worked fine though. > 6. Had not attached the CRAMPS board, so when I chose the CRAMPS sample > configuration I got some weird errors. > First after quite a bot of googling I found out that the board has to be > connected. > 7. I felt I should try to update the documentation on the libczmq-dev topic. > But it is quite a big step to take, being > a real beginner and not sure if I am stupid or the documentation is wrong. > Also using git to clone and submit > changes - it is also a large threshold. Nothing a beginner will do for sure. > At least not me. We have an “edit this page” button, which will take you to the source, and following these instructions http://www.machinekit.io/docs/documenting/contributing-documentation/#2-click-editing-with-edit-this-page-link will enable you to have GitHub make a new branch on your own account, where you can make a PR. > Anyway these are my comments and feedback. When being a beginner, nothing is > obvious and > things can't be spelled out clear enough sometimes. yeah I know the feeling, but keep up the comments, cause that’s th only way to understand where the documentation needs to be improved. Cheers, Bas > > /H > -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
