Re: [Emc-developers] Question on a gui for rpi4's running buster

2020-09-24 Thread Gene Heskett
has plenty of room for wear leveling yet. I am a happy camper. > On 25/9/20 12:44 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 24 September 2020 21:26:10 Robert Murphy wrote: > >> Not an RPi user but. > >> > >> So right clicking on the panel (taskbar in window

Re: [Emc-developers] Question on a gui for rpi4's running buster

2020-09-24 Thread Gene Heskett
was a 10x shot. That pulled in another 74 packages, including the DeskTop Pager, which I set for 4 workspaces, and it survives a reboot, exactly what I wanted. ;-) It also enhanced the menu's quite a bit. Lots of stuff there now I've never seen before so I'll have to do some exploring when I

[Emc-developers] Question on a gui for rpi4's running buster

2020-09-24 Thread Gene Heskett
. Is there a gui gfx family that does allow more workspaces, workspaces that survive a reboot, and is available as a tacksel? 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 Howdershe

Re: [Emc-developers] Remove PDF Docs? (Was: DEB for linuxcnc HTML documentation)

2020-09-21 Thread Gene Heskett
ty of obtaining English versions of docs on most Chinese products, and the difficulties this virus of theirs has brought to bear on the whole planet, I don't really care if we enable them to use this great software or not. That could be called discriminatory, but it is what it is. Cheers, Gen

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-15 Thread Gene Heskett
fter Andy? > > Well, it's the test I wanted, but not the result I was hoping for. > > No CNC menu at all? I rarely use it, easier to up arrow to linuxcnc -l and hit enter. Yes, the menu is there and works. But you have to then wade thru all the options. Thanks Andy. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-14 Thread Gene Heskett
16 changelog.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4106 Aug 21 13:12 copyright > > The following are not there > > /usr/share/applications/linuxcnc-documentation.desktop > /usr/share/applications/linuxcnc-gettingstarted.desktop > /usr/share/applications/linuxcnc-integratorinfo.desktop > > JT

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-14 Thread Gene Heskett
monium attachment and is > designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and > lunatics." > — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 > > > _______ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sou

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-14 Thread Gene Heskett
gt; > _______ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, j

Re: [Emc-developers] tests->motion-logger/basic seems hung forever on rpi4

2020-09-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 September 2020 21:23:43 andy pugh wrote: > On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 17:27, Gene Heskett wrote: > > It has been hung there for about 15 or 20 minutes now. > > The buildbot seems to suffer this malaise randomly too. But only > sometimes. > > I suspect that if yo

[Emc-developers] tests->motion-logger/basic seems hung forever on rpi4

2020-09-11 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetins guys; It has been hung there for about 15 or 20 minutes now. 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first ma

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC 2.8 pre3 pi4

2020-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
togram --nobase as a tool > for checking latency on a preempt kernel. > > JT +1 at least John, its a question I've asked myself. 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 Howders

Re: [Emc-developers] make-deb.sh, instant exit, no debs of pi

2020-09-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 02 September 2020 06:13:17 andy pugh wrote: > On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 09:51, Gene Heskett wrote: > > But, now I am locked out of a git pull, and apparently need to git > > commit. How do I get back to active status? > > git reset --hard origin master > >

Re: [Emc-developers] make-deb.sh, instant exit, no debs of pi

2020-09-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 September 2020 20:44:42 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 01 September 2020 20:38:54 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 September 2020 17:42:48 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday 01 September 2020 17:16:26 Håvard Flaget Aasen wrote: > > > > Looks li

Re: [Emc-developers] make-deb.sh, instant exit, no debs of pi

2020-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 September 2020 20:38:54 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 01 September 2020 17:42:48 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 September 2020 17:16:26 Håvard Flaget Aasen wrote: > > > Looks like it's still failing, you can try to add "cn" to this > >

Re: [Emc-developers] make-deb.sh, instant exit, no debs of pi

2020-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 September 2020 17:42:48 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 01 September 2020 17:16:26 Håvard Flaget Aasen wrote: > > Looks like it's still failing, you can try to add "cn" to this line: > > https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master/debian/configure#

Re: [Emc-developers] make-deb.sh, instant exit, no debs of pi

2020-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
just gave me hell but its still there. > tir. 1. sep. 2020 kl. 21:05 skrev Gene Heskett : > > On Tuesday 01 September 2020 16:13:57 andy pugh wrote: > > > On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 at 21:01, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Watching the 2nd rebuild go flying by, it seems, co

Re: [Emc-developers] make-deb.sh, instant exit, no debs of pi

2020-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 September 2020 16:13:57 andy pugh wrote: > On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 at 21:01, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Watching the 2nd rebuild go flying by, it seems, could be my > > imagination, that it loops thru the es and fr builds more than once. > > Build times are around

Re: [Emc-developers] make-deb.sh, instant exit, no debs of pi

2020-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 September 2020 16:00:44 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 01 September 2020 15:51:17 andy pugh wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 at 20:25, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > dh_movefiles > > > > Should move all the files in liuxcnc-docs-cn.files out of > >

Re: [Emc-developers] make-deb.sh, instant exit, no debs of pi

2020-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 September 2020 15:51:17 andy pugh wrote: > On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 at 20:25, Gene Heskett wrote: > > dh_movefiles > > Should move all the files in liuxcnc-docs-cn.files out of debian/tmp. > > > debian/tmp/usr/share/applications/linuxcnc-gettingstarted-cn.des

Re: [Emc-developers] make-deb.sh, instant exit, no debs of pi

2020-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 September 2020 14:41:06 andy pugh wrote: > On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 at 18:35, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Looks like it did. I've been up to my tools inlegal crap, so it > > took me a while to redo it all. Doing debs now, > > It might yet fall over with finding chinese

Re: [Emc-developers] make-deb.sh, instant exit, no debs of pi

2020-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 September 2020 06:18:53 andy pugh wrote: > On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 at 10:41, Gene Heskett wrote: > > successfully configured for 'uspace-Raspbian-10'-'uspace'.. > > This part should set up control from control.top.in > https://github.com/Linu

[Emc-developers] make-deb.sh, instant exit, no debs of pi

2020-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
0m0.471s sys 0m0.127s What should this debian/control line 46 be edited to look like?? Thank you. 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) If we desi

Re: [Emc-developers] Buildbot problems?

2020-08-31 Thread Gene Heskett
t; (with the Wheezy builds there is an i386 pass and an amd64 fail) > > I _was_ planning to release 2.8 this weekend, and have pushed the tag. > But the buildbot won't make the debs without a clean build. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:

Re: [Emc-developers] Docs

2020-08-29 Thread Gene Heskett
gfx for lathe tool orientation at section 3.30 is helpfull, thank you. Probably, certainly s/b more, but page 100 was as far as I read. 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 H

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8.0-pre3

2020-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
is > designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and > lunatics." > — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 Put a space after the double-dash above and your sigs will disappear from my replies automatically. Thanks Andy. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- &quo

Re: [Emc-developers] Help!

2020-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 August 2020 04:07:08 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 17 August 2020 00:37:20 Bari wrote: > > Andy, > > > > I would just fix the Red and not worry about the Orange for now. > > > > On 8/15/20 6:41 PM, andy pugh wrote: > > > I am starting to f

Re: [Emc-developers] Help!

2020-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers 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 (Autho

Re: [Emc-developers] Buildbot output

2020-08-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 August 2020 13:52:34 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 05 August 2020 12:35:38 andy pugh wrote: > > Can anyone interpret what is going on here? > > > > http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/buildbot/builders/4007.deb-precise-i386 > >/b uilds/5596/steps/shell

Re: [Emc-developers] Buildbot output

2020-08-05 Thread Gene Heskett
een something like that before, all starting with Z's, but it went away, 2? weeks back. From the doc build stage. I've got my pi4 working on it, as it was 2 big commits behind. So far its ok, but its still making docs and has not run any tests yet. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxe

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 release update.

2020-08-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 04 August 2020 14:07:19 Jon Elson wrote: > On 08/04/2020 10:10 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 August 2020 08:10:48 Stuart Stevenson wrote: > >> I saw no problems in config.log other than the configure report in > >> the terminal. > >> libg

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 release update.

2020-08-04 Thread Gene Heskett
nstall, on a 240G SSD on a usb3 adaptor, for minimum stress on the u-sd card, even swap has been moved to 120G SSD. my u-sd is a 64G, df says its at 17% so it has plenty of room to wear level. > thanks > Stuart > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 12:33 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 0

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 release update.

2020-08-03 Thread Gene Heskett
t;>> > >>> > >>> ___ > >>> Emc-developers mailing list > >>> Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > >> > &

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 release update.

2020-08-03 Thread Gene Heskett
Its not a showstopper, I've been able to make pyvcp show me what I've needed. Biggest problem is the wasted screen real estate using those primitive toools. > > On 3 Aug 2020, at 5:09 pm, Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > > > On Sunday 02 August 2020 23:51:17 Phill Carter

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 release update.

2020-08-03 Thread Gene Heskett
. And it doesn't find opencv. It does find a libopencv.version.jni but that removes the dev & dbg stuff for linuxcnc. And that will cascade thru the install, destroying the sd card, so I'm never again going anywhere near that. Starting over from a fresh sd card 3 times is enough. Cheers, Gene Hes

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 release update.

2020-07-31 Thread Gene Heskett
case, the packages are not in the repository > yet. > > But you can try out a not-quite-release .iso file > http://www.linuxcnc.org/temp/2.8_test4.iso Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that o

[Emc-developers] I need to improve my version numbers when building on the pi

2020-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; How do I modify my build scripts to include the current git version number in the file names generated? Thanks. 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 Howdershe

Re: [Emc-developers] problem understanding diagram from help-pages of pncconf

2020-07-14 Thread Gene Heskett
t; Fusion360 CAM assumes that a G53G0Z0 will retract the tool to the top > of Z travel. I have seen a number of posts on the forum where this > has mashed a tool into the table. IMO Fusion360 is correct. And its not open for discussion. There is no valid reason for it to do otherwise. C

Re: [Emc-developers] problem understanding diagram from help-pages of pncconf

2020-07-14 Thread Gene Heskett
starting to home it. It just goes in the right direction to find the switch autmatically. Its called usability. Whats not to like about that? > > > ___ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lis

Re: [Emc-developers] two_pass failure on armhf

2020-07-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 14 July 2020 11:27:46 andy pugh wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 at 16:20, Gene Heskett wrote: > > twopass: load_the_modules cmd= > {config={"num_encoders=4 num_pwmgens=1 num_stepgens=4"}} spi_debug=3 > > spiclk_rate=41666 spiclk_rate_rd=25000> > >

[Emc-developers] two_pass failure on armhf

2020-07-14 Thread Gene Heskett
d_the_modules cmd= waitpid failed /usr/bin/rtapi_app hm2_rpspi /usr/bin/rtapi_app exited without becoming ready insmod for hm2_rpspi failed, returned -1 Works fine w/o the TWO_PASS Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury

Re: [Emc-developers] problem understanding diagram from help-pages of pncconf

2020-07-14 Thread Gene Heskett
t, by the time its finished its right at 200lbs. I shoulda started with a BS-0... > > Ed. > > > > > ___ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-

Re: [Emc-developers] What to do about the docs?

2020-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
> ___ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and a

Re: [Emc-developers] what am I missing?

2020-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 13 July 2020 07:04:24 andy pugh wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 at 11:49, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Cannot convert 'common/images/emc2-intro.png' to pdf > > https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928/ > > Imagemagick no longer supports converting images to PDF. Humm,

[Emc-developers] what am I missing?

2020-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Something has gone missing in generating pdf docs, and results in quite a few of these: Cannot convert 'common/images/emc2-intro.png' to pdf Cannot convert 'hal/images/HAL_Configuration.png' to pdf What, on Buster armhf, uptodate do I need tp squish these? Thanks. Cheers, Gene

Re: [Emc-developers] LiveCD Install

2020-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
gt; > The next question becomes "which one" > > Thats easy, evince. And cups in case somebody wants to print it. 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)

Re: [Emc-developers] armhf master is ignoreing axis limits

2020-07-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 06 July 2020 10:01:44 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 05 July 2020 20:56:52 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 05 July 2020 18:54:25 andy pugh wrote: > > > On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 19:52, Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > > > So what have I nuked

Re: [Emc-developers] armhf master is ignoreing axis limits

2020-07-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 July 2020 20:56:52 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 05 July 2020 18:54:25 andy pugh wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 19:52, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > So what have I nuked to result in them now being not only > > > disabled, but totally missing from

Re: [Emc-developers] armhf master is ignoreing axis limits

2020-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 July 2020 18:54:25 andy pugh wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 19:52, Gene Heskett wrote: > > So what have I nuked to result in them now being not only disabled, > > but totally missing from the pin and parameter lists? > > Maybe you forgot to home the machi

Re: [Emc-developers] armhf master is ignoreing axis limits

2020-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 July 2020 18:13:52 Jon Elson wrote: > On 07/05/2020 01:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I see some fussing about jerky jogs so I thought I'd go check mine, > > starting with the Sheldon, which is driven by an rpi4b thru a 7i90 >

[Emc-developers] armhf master is ignoreing axis limits

2020-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
as various pieces of my (in)famous configuration has gained other functionality. So what have I nuked to result in them now being not only disabled, but totally missing from the pin and parameter lists? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:

Re: [Emc-developers] fails for master too on rpi4

2020-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 July 2020 07:35:31 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Despite 52 tests fails. I tried a make-debs and got a fuss about a > missing libtirpc-dev, installed that, rerunning first script. > > dpkg-checkbuilddeps possibly incomplete? > > Cheers, Ge

[Emc-developers] fails for master too on rpi4

2020-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Despite 52 tests fails. I tried a make-debs and got a fuss about a missing libtirpc-dev, installed that, rerunning first script. dpkg-checkbuilddeps possibly incomplete? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot,

Re: [Emc-developers] huge failure of local armhf build

2020-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 July 2020 15:04:14 andy pugh wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 at 18:56, Gene Heskett wrote: > > However since early June, I have been subjected to a thousand or so > > of these at LinuxCNC launch time. > > smalloc_dn: shmem available 152213 > > It is one per

Re: [Emc-developers] huge failure of local armhf build

2020-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 July 2020 14:43:53 andy pugh wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 at 18:56, Gene Heskett wrote: > > smalloc_dn: shmem available 152213 > > Eeek! Did that find it's way in to the base code? > > That was some debugging I put in trying to work out the RTAI problem.

[Emc-developers] huge failure of local armhf build

2020-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
a wholesale failure output. The extra git checkout of one of the tests is because the make clean deletes it. cd /media/pi/workspace cd LinuxCNC-dev/debian ./configure uspace cd .. dpkg-checkbuilddeps time dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -nc Many thanks for any help. Cheers, Gene Heskett

Re: [Emc-developers] linuxcnc on armhf

2020-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 23 June 2020 17:36:05 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 21 June 2020 04:10:04 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I just updated my rpi4 after about a weeks timeout, and find > > shmallloc_up and shmalloc_dn is so noisy on lcnc launch that very &

Re: [Emc-developers] linuxcnc on armhf

2020-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 21 June 2020 04:10:04 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I just updated my rpi4 after about a weeks timeout, and find > shmallloc_up and shmalloc_dn is so noisy on lcnc launch that very > little else can be found in the launch log. The latency has also > dou

[Emc-developers] linuxcnc on armhf

2020-06-21 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I just updated my rpi4 after about a weeks timeout, and find shmallloc_up and shmalloc_dn is so noisy on lcnc launch that very little else can be found in the launch log. The latency has also doubled to about 30 u-secs. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Situation

2020-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
fo/emc-developers > > > > > > -- > > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus Pinneberg > > > Julian Wingert > > > > > > Subtilitas Consulting > > > > > > Holstenstr. 25 > > > 25421 Pinneberg > > > > > >

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Situation

2020-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
rge.net > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > -- > Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus Pinneberg > Julian Wingert > > Subtilitas Consulting > > Holstenstr. 25 > 25421 Pinneberg > > Phone: 0170/4516094 > FAX: 03212-1479681 > Mail: julian.

Re: [Emc-developers] uspace

2020-06-13 Thread Gene Heskett
some teething problems we'll have to work out. But I have confidence that won't be as big a problem as our imagination is telling us. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -

Re: [Emc-developers] HUMM, good code won't run

2020-06-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 June 2020 18:07:09 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > updated the master/wheezy on th G0704 earlier today, then opened up > the nema 34 mount to pass the spindle end of a nema 23 motor. I > carved that square pattern without any hickups not of my doing, but

[Emc-developers] HUMM, good code won't run

2020-06-12 Thread Gene Heskett
second pause to blow chips & buttercut the tap ) o100 ENDWHILE M5 G0 z75 M2 % This code ran fine the last time I used it, but now a click on go starts the spindle, spindle-at-speed is solidly true, but it never execs the first of 10 loops. Nor does it highlight the problem line. clues a

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Situation

2020-06-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 June 2020 23:28:26 Reinhard wrote: > Hi Gene > > On Donnerstag, 11. Juni 2020, 21:53:55 CEST Gene Heskett wrote: > > I find it totally unreal that most shop owners won't spend the > > sheckles to buy a router and maybe a switch to put the network i

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Situation

2020-06-11 Thread Gene Heskett
y being usable anyway" - so why not put manpower on that > issue? If the source would be readable, more developer would likely > jump into the game. > With projects like this, no one "assigns" manpower, and effort is put out far more on "scratch that itch" stuff. An

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Situation

2020-06-09 Thread Gene Heskett
eferring to in my previous email. RTAI offers lower > > >> > latency than PREEMPT_RT and for some applications, PREEMPT_RT > > >> > will not make the > > > > cut. > > > > >> > I'll post the script right now from Andy to the RTAI mailing > > &

[Emc-developers] thank you, whoever recently worked on pyvcp spinbuttons

2020-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
;-) 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 16 May 2020 19:41:18 andy pugh wrote: > On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 00:07, Gene Heskett wrote: > > It, when free, also has half a degree of backlash. The adjuster > > screw Andy told me about is locked by a screw thru the front face > > that can only be access

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 15 May 2020 16:43:50 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 15 May 2020 14:39:12 Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > > > On Thursday 14 May 2020 14:57:59 Chris Morley wrote: > > > > Well I dare say that a VFD counts as hardware. > > > > I use serial data

Re: [Emc-developers] off-topic- State Tags and Hal_port pins

2020-05-16 Thread Gene Heskett
std size here, thats still way more than the MDA but I find it seems to help. 3 now its 08;20 here and I've taken my vitamins and put a cuppa yesterdays in the microwave. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. P

Re: [Emc-developers] State Tags and Hal_port pins

2020-05-16 Thread Gene Heskett
gt; > > _______ > > Emc-developers mailing list > > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > ___ > Em

Re: [Emc-developers] State Tags and Hal_port pins

2020-05-16 Thread Gene Heskett
this added. It expands what hal can do. > > Rod Webster > *1300 896 832* > +61 435 765 611 > VMN® > www.vmn.com.au > > ___ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourcefor

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-15 Thread Gene Heskett
_ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please u

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
ays). > > Chris Unfortunately, the vfd's I have bought are totally w/o even the footprint for a serial port on the pcb's. And yes, I've looked. > ________ > From: Gene Heskett > Sent: May 14, 2020 5:55 PM > To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > Sub

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > ___ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers Cheers, Gene Heskett -- &qu

Re: [Emc-developers] RTAI Testing

2020-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
and you should be there. > I am going to halt that test and run the Seb abs.0 test with > RTAI-uspace to see if that is different to RTAI-kernel. (ie > LXRT-realtime not RTAI-realtime) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballo

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 May 2020 04:07:25 Reinhard wrote: > Hi Gene, > > On Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2020, 09:47:01 CEST Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 14 May 2020 03:06:41 Reinhard wrote: > > > P.S.: by the way - what does the css in spindlestatus mean? > > > > Co

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle status

2020-05-14 Thread Gene Heskett
ling list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers 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) If we de

[Emc-developers] Motorizing my BS-1

2020-05-11 Thread Gene Heskett
ipm, so I've made an offer on 2 of these 3NM nema 23's. 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law r

[Emc-developers] armhf build minor problem.

2020-05-11 Thread Gene Heskett
as it cannot find libgnomeprintui because it doesn't seem to exist in the debian repos that raspbian uses. Is there a newer such utility that could be used to satisfy that need? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot,

Re: [Emc-developers] got a bug

2020-05-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 07 May 2020 15:53:20 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 07 May 2020 15:32:50 andy pugh wrote: > > On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 19:14, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Despite repeated lcnc restarts, my editing of the .xml file is > > > having zero effect on

Re: [Emc-developers] got a bug

2020-05-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 07 May 2020 15:32:50 andy pugh wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 19:14, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Despite repeated lcnc restarts, my editing of the .xml file is > > having zero effect on the gui pyvcp is displaying. And it is the > > file named in the .ini file. >

[Emc-developers] got a bug

2020-05-07 Thread Gene Heskett
out the -l and reselected the config, no effect. Scratching head looking for whats wrong, but running low on hair. TWOPASS is on. Hints welcome. Thanks folks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in t

Re: [Emc-developers] linuxcnc on the rpi4, kernel Q

2020-05-07 Thread Gene Heskett
eps/environment-report/logs/stdio > > Original message From: andy pugh Date: > > 7/5/20 10:16 pm (GMT+10:00) To: EMC developers < > > emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] > > linuxcnc on the rpi4, kernel Q On Thu, 7 Ma

Re: [Emc-developers] linuxcnc on the rpi4, kernel Q

2020-05-07 Thread Gene Heskett
0) To: EMC developers > Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] > linuxcnc on the rpi4, kernel Q On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 13:08, Gene > Heskett wrote:> What kernel are you running on > the buildbot machine for armhf?  And what> sort of machine is it?It's > a Pi4: > http://buildbot.linux

[Emc-developers] linuxcnc on the rpi4, kernel Q

2020-05-07 Thread Gene Heskett
. I just installed the buildbot version of master on that rpi, looks and seems to run normally. What kernel are you running on the buildbot machine for armhf? And what sort of machine is it? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot,

Re: [Emc-developers] startup anomaly on OLD LinuxCNC

2020-05-06 Thread Gene Heskett
developers mailing list > > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > ___ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforg

Re: [Emc-developers] just noticed this on my wheezy box

2020-05-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 05 May 2020 20:44:48 andy pugh wrote: > On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 01:21, Gene Heskett wrote: > > gcc version too old: skipping hal/user_comps/xhc-whb04b-6 > > > > gcc is uptodate, for wheezy. > > Yes, but Wheezy is too old. > > Do you have an xhc_wh04b-6

[Emc-developers] just noticed this on my wheezy box

2020-05-05 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; fyi, master build. gcc: fatal error: no input files compilation terminated. expr: syntax error gcc version too old: skipping hal/user_comps/xhc-whb04b-6 gcc is uptodate, for wheezy. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, b

Re: [Emc-developers] Third-Party GUIs

2020-05-03 Thread Gene Heskett
fferent timings. > >> > >> cheers Reinhard > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ___ > >> Emc-developers mailing list > >> Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > >> h

Re: [Emc-developers] Third-Party GUIs

2020-05-02 Thread Gene Heskett
ions. My biggest squawk about our gui's in general is the microscopic halmeter. It needs about a 4x magnification so it can be read from 3 meters away on a 22" screen when troubleshooting a home switch or whatever its set to watch. > Cheers, Phill > > __

Re: [Emc-developers] Third-Party GUIs.

2020-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
://github.com/DjangoReinhard/JCNCScreen > > > > And maybe also PathPilot. > > ___ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers Cheers, Ge

[Emc-developers] warnings at the end of dpkg-buildpackage

2020-04-29 Thread Gene Heskett
rce included) Will these go away eventually? 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Loui

[Emc-developers] this is puzzling

2020-04-26 Thread Gene Heskett
distro dpkg-buildpackage was built for? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order.

Re: [Emc-developers] apt key ?

2020-04-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 26 April 2020 18:46:22 andy pugh wrote: > On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 22:20, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Closest I've got is: > > deb http://linuxcnc.org/ buster master-rtpreempt > > You could try using what it tells you to use on the buildbot page. > > deb h

Re: [Emc-developers] apt key ?

2020-04-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 26 April 2020 16:42:48 andy pugh wrote: > On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 21:03, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Thats the web address, but apt can't find it. > > > > > > What are you using? > > I was asking what apt stanza you were using. Somewhere around

Re: [Emc-developers] apt key ?

2020-04-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 26 April 2020 13:24:42 andy pugh wrote: > On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 16:25, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Thats the web address, but apt can't find it. > > What are you using? firefox on this machine, apt on the rpi4. I do all this stuff over an ssh login. What I need is a so

Re: [Emc-developers] apt key ?

2020-04-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 26 April 2020 11:10:28 andy pugh wrote: > On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 16:07, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I go to the wiki (many thanks for the update, it works now), but > > there I find there is not a build for armhf, which is what > > raspian-buster is. >

Re: [Emc-developers] apt key ?

2020-04-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 26 April 2020 11:10:28 andy pugh wrote: > On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 16:07, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I go to the wiki (many thanks for the update, it works now), but > > there I find there is not a build for armhf, which is what > > raspian-buster is. >

Re: [Emc-developers] apt key ?

2020-04-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 26 April 2020 11:02:44 andy pugh wrote: > On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 15:54, Gene Heskett wrote: > > That took 2 passes for two keys, but now the repo has been renamed. > > Its no longer master-rt. Tisn't just master either. What is it > > called now? > > h

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