Re: [Machinekit] Xylotex.ini failing to run under Stretch

[schoone...@gmail.com]

On 31/08/18 16:19, Condit Alan wrote: Schooner, So I am trying to build a Machinekit system on Stretch. But I sort of expected that the configs that were released on the Stretch image would at least load There is a basic lack of understanding of the process here The image is nothing to do with machinekit, it is released by RCN who is an authority on BBB and all things ARM, but he just builds, or installs the packages, for the current Machinekit. The configs were written or adapted by people using Xenomai on Wheezy most likely. Doubtless many people have adapted them to run on rt-preempt and Stretch, but no-one has submitted working configs for inclusion in the repo, so they are not there. I personally do not have a BBB and have no interest in running an under-powered board to do what a proper computer and a FPGA board will do much better, so these updates won't come from me. — not that they would do what I want to do. So far I haven’t found a single config that uses .hal on Stretch that will even load. That is why I am looking for help and that is why I am trying to post what I find. To help those who follow. If you stick with one config that best matches your hardware and follow the guidelines in reporting problems in a post http://www.machinekit.io/docs/getting-help/ we should be able to help you. When you switch debugging on, the messages  in the linuxcnc.log and/or dmesg will generally pinpoint the source of the problem. If someone has a working config for Stretch that uses both .ini and .hal, I would love to see it. I really thought that there would be a working config for the CRAMPS board since Charles developed that but no luck there either. Thanks, Alan On Aug 30, 2018, at 11:05 PM, schoone...@gmail.com wrote: The .ini file is a configuration file for YOUR system. If you are running a rt-preempt kernel, whereas previous distros would have had a xenomai kernel, YOU need to change things like that. We do not have turn-key systems rigidly linked to specific hardware and software. There is no way we can guess how you will do something and on what. The change Robert referred to I think was the flavor relevant installation, rather than the configs. If we changed the configs to rt-preempt, they would be wrong for everyone running a Xenomai kernel. On 8/31/2018 3:01 AM, Condit Alan wrote: If it is then I am looking at the wrong git: CRAMPS “https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit/blob/master/configs/ARM/BeagleBone/CRAMPS/CRAMPS.ini” [PRUCONF] DRIVER=hal_pru_generic CONFIG=pru=0 num_stepgens=4 num_pwmgens=6 PRUBIN=xenomai/pru_generic.bin Xylotex “https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit/blob/master/configs/ARM/BeagleBone/Xylotex/Xylotex.ini” [PRUCONF] DRIVER=hal_pru_generic CONFIG=pru=1 num_stepgens=4 PRUBIN=xenomai/pru_generic.bin On Aug 30, 2018, at 6:29 PM, Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com> wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 5:55 PM Condit Alan <muggin...@gmail.com> wrote: I found a link talking about getting a CRAMPS board working with Stretch. It said you need to replace #PRUBIN=xenomai/pru_generic.bin with PRUBIN=rt-preempt/pru_generic.bin. Does that apply to the Xylotex DB25 cape also? I tried it in Xylotex.ini but the errors seemed to be the same either way. i thought that was fixed in git.. Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- 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 machinekit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/machinekit/dDVH1TJDFDA/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to machinekit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 machinekit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.