[Emc-developers] Apparently another missing dependency on my pi install.

2021-06-21 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetingsd all; I note while building linuxcnc on my pi4 this morning, that I am getting megabytes of this sort of error froom the build script: Cannot convert 'motion/5-axis-figures/equation__30.png' to pdf What do I need to install to fix this? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four

Re: [Emc-developers] RTAI 5.3.1 for LinuxCNC

2021-06-21 Thread Alec Ari via Emc-developers
RTAI 5.3 with 4.19.152? That doesn't make sense, the RTAI 5.3.1 release I made does a check for a 4.19.195 kernel. The 4.19.174 kernel works with the dongle but 4.19.152 does not. 4.19.195 will have whatever fixes 4.19.174 had and then some. The 4.19.195 kernel crashes eventually when you do

Re: [Emc-developers] Mesaflash Versions

2021-06-21 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 22 Jun 2021, andy pugh wrote: Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 00:11:49 +0100 From: andy pugh Reply-To: EMC developers To: EMC developers Subject: [Emc-developers] Mesaflash Versions The LinuxCNC repo carries Mesaflash 3.4.0~pre1, a tag released something over a year ago. Who is in charge of

[Emc-developers] Mesaflash Versions

2021-06-21 Thread andy pugh
The LinuxCNC repo carries Mesaflash 3.4.0~pre1, a tag released something over a year ago. Who is in charge of Mesaflash releasing? Does the buildbot make packages, or is that a manual process? -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use

Re: [Emc-developers] RTAI 5.3.1 for LinuxCNC

2021-06-21 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 at 22:49, Sam Sokolik wrote: > Andy - random thought.. are you using wicd? I had issues getting USB wifi > to work Ended up installing network manager... Yes, I have already done this. In fact this is all part of a process that should end with a 2.8.2 release and a

Re: [Emc-developers] RTAI 5.3.1 for LinuxCNC

2021-06-21 Thread Sam Sokolik
Andy - random thought.. are you using wicd? I had issues getting USB wifi to work Ended up installing network manager... On Mon, Jun 21, 2021, 4:45 PM andy pugh wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 at 21:12, andy pugh wrote: > > > The same device _does_ work with the 4.14.174-rtai kernel (from

Re: [Emc-developers] RTAI 5.3.1 for LinuxCNC

2021-06-21 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 at 21:12, andy pugh wrote: > The same device _does_ work with the 4.14.174-rtai kernel (from last April) The drivers seem to be installed. AR drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/built-in.a AR drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/built-in.a AR

Re: [Emc-developers] RTAI 5.3.1 for LinuxCNC

2021-06-21 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 at 13:34, Alec Ari via Emc-developers wrote: > I think that boils down to how important it is that it may crash after > several hundred or a few thousand runs. I don't think that is the question. The existing 4.14.174 kernel package that we have available also crashes. >

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC Board of Directors

2021-06-21 Thread Jared McLaughlin
I'm a bit curious what your list looks like. On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 1:56 AM Feral Engineer wrote: > I would hop on this in a heartbeat. I've literally been learning C so I can > eventually join in on development in some way, shape or form. Currently on > video 89 of 270 from neso academy on

Re: [Emc-developers] RTAI 5.3.1 for LinuxCNC

2021-06-21 Thread Alec Ari via Emc-developers
Hi Andy! >I am happy to build a new kernel + RTAI deb for the LinuxCNC repo if >you think that 5.3.1 is worth it? I think that boils down to how important it is that it may crash after several hundred or a few thousand runs. If the abs.0 stress test is enough to steer you away from RTAI then