[Emc-developers] direct phase drives

2012-08-01 Thread EBo
I finally broke away some time to start playing with some of the hardware I have available. This includes a Gecko-g540, Artek's NURBS/FPGA, the embedded MiniEMC2, and an old MaxNC-10 (which uses direct phase). Regarding testing on the old MaxNC, does anyone have a copy of the hacks that were

Re: [Emc-developers] direct phase drives

2012-08-01 Thread Steve Stallings
The current Stepgen already has support for many types of direct phase drive. See: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/stepgen.9.html -Original Message- From: EBo [mailto:e...@sandien.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 8:45 AM To: EMC developers Subject: [Emc-developers]

Re: [Emc-developers] direct phase drives

2012-08-01 Thread EBo
Thanks. I was looking in the wrong place. On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 09:57:13 -0500, Steve Stallings wrote: The current Stepgen already has support for many types of direct phase drive. See: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/stepgen.9.html -Original Message- From: EBo

Re: [Emc-developers] direct phase drives

2012-08-01 Thread andy pugh
On 1 August 2012 15:57, Steve Stallings steve...@newsguy.com wrote: The current Stepgen already has support for many types of direct phase drive. I think that it will now support any direct phase drive as you can define your own patterns. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it.

[Emc-developers] Potential .6.32-122-rtai problem

2012-08-01 Thread Gene Heskett
The reason I say potential is that I actually have NDI where the problem lies. This is the main box in the house, a quad core, but slow 2.1 ghz phenom, with 4 gigs of system ram a loaded pci pcie bus, with a USB tree attached that resembles a weeping willow. It is running an install based

Re: [Emc-developers] Potential .6.32-122-rtai problem

2012-08-01 Thread Dave Caroline
open a terminal type top look what processes are up to do you have a large %wa (waiting on io) is a process pinned at 100% fix/remove/diagnose/stop using also fix dns/web connections, any dns and reverse dns check will try for 30secs before timeout look in logs for clues Dave Caroline

Re: [Emc-developers] Potential .6.32-122-rtai problem

2012-08-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 01 August 2012 11:59:45 Dave Caroline did opine: open a terminal type top I keep htop running full time look what processes are up to do you have a large %wa (waiting on io) ran top, see 0.2%wa occasionally, usually 0.0%wa, string of incoming mail ran it up to 5.4%wa once.

[Emc-developers] [ emc-Bugs-3553265 ] blank lines in tool table file cause problem

2012-08-01 Thread SourceForge . net
Bugs item #3553265, was opened at 2012-08-01 11:12 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by cncdreamer You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=106744aid=3553265group_id=6744 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the

[Emc-developers] [ emc-Bugs-3553265 ] blank lines in tool table file cause problem

2012-08-01 Thread SourceForge . net
Bugs item #3553265, was opened at 2012-08-01 11:12 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by cncdreamer You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=106744aid=3553265group_id=6744 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

Re: [Emc-developers] Potential .6.32-122-rtai problem

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Keller
Have you tried isolcpu for the real-time? RTAI will reduce system responsiveness, but not by much if no real-time software is running. You should try booting into a generic kernel and seeing if the kmail problem persists. If you don't have a generic kernel, it's rather easy to build one with

Re: [Emc-developers] Potential .6.32-122-rtai problem

2012-08-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 01 August 2012 15:18:02 Eric Keller did opine: Have you tried isolcpu for the real-time? RTAI will reduce system responsiveness, but not by much if no real-time software is running. You should try booting into a generic kernel and seeing if the kmail problem persists. If you

Re: [Emc-developers] [ emc-Bugs-3553265 ] blank lines in tool table file cause problem

2012-08-01 Thread Dewey Garrett
A patch for test: From ff128dbcd1122351484b5e7f715c9c308fa24a3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dewey Garrett dgarr...@panix.com Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:53:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] tool_parse.cc: handle erroneous tool tbl lines require a toolno for line to be valid Bugs item #3553265 ---

Re: [Emc-developers] [ emc-Bugs-3553265 ] blank lines in tool table file cause problem

2012-08-01 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 8/1/2012 7:58 PM, Dewey Garrett wrote: A patch for test: From ff128dbcd1122351484b5e7f715c9c308fa24a3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dewey Garrett dgarr...@panix.com Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:53:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] tool_parse.cc: handle erroneous tool tbl lines require a toolno