Re: [Emc-developers] questions to ngcgui_lib and more

Hi, thank you for your fast reply! On Montag, 20. April 2020, 17:11:41 CEST Dewey Garrett wrote: > Ref: ngcgui: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/gui/ngcgui.html > > In these docs: > "(The gcmc executable must be installed separately, see: Sorry, I did not read the overview at the beginning of

Re: [Emc-developers] Document errors

Thanks for that, another case of not seeing the forest for the trees... > On 21 Apr 2020, at 2:21 am, John wrote: > > A fixed width of 1000 may be your issue. > > JT > > On 4/18/20 7:43 PM, Phill Carter wrote: >> A forum user posted some PDF doc errors in the way some graphics appear: >> >> <

[Emc-developers] In the interests of avoiding duplicated work.

If you decide to start working on a self-identified problem, it is probably a good idea to raise an issue on the tracker and self-assign it, so that other folk don't start working on the same thing. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial u

Re: [Emc-developers] old distros

> > > Drop support for anything earlier than Stretch in master, and as soon as > > python3 support is working, drop support for python2 in master. > > Python2 is EOL since January, and it's not feasible to support both. > > I suggest instead only dropping support for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise in > maste

Re: [Emc-developers] questions to ngcgui_lib and more

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 16:12, Dewey Garrett wrote: > I don't know if gcmc is still maintained but the link works There seems to have been some activity 8 months ago: https://gitlab.com/gcmc/gcmc/-/commits/master -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed f

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 doesn't compile on mint 18 or 19

Fantastic! That did the trick on both my systems. Thank you. Chris From: andy pugh Sent: April 20, 2020 11:36 AM To: EMC developers Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 doesn't compile on mint 18 or 19 On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 06:07, Chris Morley wrote: > > The new

Re: [Emc-developers] old distros

On 4/20/20 5:34 AM, andy pugh wrote: There is one point to remember here: Does preempt-rt work on 32-bit machines? Our only good support for 32-bit is the Wheezy / RTAI ISO. RT-Preempt works well on 32-bit Stretch, it's how i run my Bridgeport. I use Mesa hardware, I haven't tried software ste

Re: [Emc-developers] old distros

On 4/19/20 10:58 AM, René Hopf via Emc-developers wrote: I added the EOL date of the official distros to the wiki: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MinimumSoftwareVersions Notice that only stretch and buster are not near end of life. Thanks, that's helpful info! I've seen a misconcepti

Re: [Emc-developers] Document errors

A fixed width of 1000 may be your issue. JT On 4/18/20 7:43 PM, Phill Carter wrote: A forum user posted some PDF doc errors in the way some graphics appear:

Re: [Emc-developers] questions to ngcgui_lib and more

> but in master there is no executable called gcmc. Ref: ngcgui: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/gui/ngcgui.html In these docs: "(The gcmc executable must be installed separately, see: http://www.vagrearg.org/content/gcmc)" I don't know if gcmc is still maintained but the link works -- Dew

[Emc-developers] questions to ngcgui_lib and more

Hi, after discovering qpocket.ngc I got curious about that stuff and digged all related docs I found. But docs are quite rare on that subject. Found O-codes and ngcgui ... In the helpfile ngcgui a gcode-meta-compiler is mentioned and that help will be provided at command line ... ... but in ma

Re: [Emc-developers] old distros

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 13:09, Gene Heskett wrote: > Because no one has found and touted a replacement for the D-525-MW yet? There are many potential replacements for that (old) board, and it runs 64bit anyway. (see the benchmarks here: https://browser.geekbench.com/geekbench2/1523128 ) -- atp

Re: [Emc-developers] old distros

On Monday 20 April 2020 07:34:19 andy pugh wrote: > There is one point to remember here: > Does preempt-rt work on 32-bit machines? > Our only good support for 32-bit is the Wheezy / RTAI ISO. > RTAI for 4.0+ kernels is 64-bit only. > > It might be that preempt-rt is a good solution for such machi

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 doesn't compile on mint 18 or 19

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 06:07, Chris Morley wrote: > > The new driver breaks my systems from compiling. I had missed some makefile updates from Jepler when I picked the driver back to 2.8. Can you try again with a fresh pull? (However, it works fine on all the buildbot machines) -- atp "A motor

Re: [Emc-developers] old distros

There is one point to remember here: Does preempt-rt work on 32-bit machines? Our only good support for 32-bit is the Wheezy / RTAI ISO. RTAI for 4.0+ kernels is 64-bit only. It might be that preempt-rt is a good solution for such machines, I simply don't know. (And this comes back to the "why are