Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-11 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 09:16:42PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: I think somebody turned down the priority of error messages such that my hal_ppmc.c driver doesn't report anything even when it decides to bomb completely. In this case, I think the issue is just that the failure is very early in the

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-11 Thread Neil Baylis
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: Neil Baylis wrote: I rebooted again (this is the third time since I did the upgrade to 2.4) and checked lsmod. Still the same: no parport_pc, but parport is loaded with dependencies lp and ppdev. I tried emc again,

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-11 Thread Jon Elson
Jeff Epler wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 09:16:42PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: I think somebody turned down the priority of error messages such that my hal_ppmc.c driver doesn't report anything even when it decides to bomb completely. In this case, I think the issue is just that

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-11 Thread Jon Elson
Neil Baylis wrote: I commented out the line in /etc/modprobe.d/emc2, rebooted, and it failed as before. Then I uncommented the line, rebooted, and it worked first time again. I have to assume I somehow got confused when I edited this file the first time, and thought I had rebooted when I

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.0

2010-05-11 Thread Neil Baylis
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: Well, this is just RT-linux arcana, and either we will find a good fix for it, or have to put it prominently in the Wiki. Since you are apparently the first person to hit this, there won't be a release note about it

[Emc-users] part program exceeds machine limits

2010-05-11 Thread Jon Elson
There used to be a capability to run part of a G-code program that exceeds the machine limits. I tried doing this today, and got the first big dialog box that says program exceeds machine minimum on axis Y and hit the run anyway button. I intended to stop the program before it ran into the