Re: [Emc-users] Gmoccapy on Debian

2015-03-13 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Ah thanks Andy. I installed all kinds of Glade stuff but missed the -gtk stuff. I will report back -- Original Message -- From: "andy pugh" To: "Marius Liebenberg" ; "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Sent: 2015-03-13 18:39:13 Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Gmoccapy on Debian >On 13 March

Re: [Emc-users] Printing from Debian Wheezy

2015-03-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 3/13/2015 9:54 AM, Rick wrote: > I click on "Network Printer" and after a few seconds our network printer > shows up, " GestetnerDSM618" in the list, I click on it, click forward, > then an installable options page comes up, I click forward, then it > shows the description of the printer, and I

Re: [Emc-users] Printing from Debian Wheezy

2015-03-13 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:54:41AM -0400, Rick wrote: > This is what it prints out on the first page, > > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 This is a huge clue. Your OS setup thinks the printer knows Postscript, but it doesn't. On some old printers that was an add-on, like on a SIMM that you pay extra for. If

Re: [Emc-users] minitech 3 mill nks-3000 spindle

2015-03-13 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/13/2015 03:55 PM, craig wrote: > Thanks also to John. from your suggested testing it is a 3 > phase induction induction. The air line is for cooling > 40psi filtered air needed at higher RPM. I have a Westwind air bearing spindle motor. it has very low inductance, so I had to add large se

Re: [Emc-users] Printing from Debian Wheezy

2015-03-13 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/13/2015 10:54 AM, Rick wrote: > I click on "Network Printer" and after a few seconds our > network printer shows up, " GestetnerDSM618" in the list, > I click on it, click forward, then an installable options > page comes up, I click forward, then it shows the > description of the printer

Re: [Emc-users] minitech 3 mill nks-3000 spindle

2015-03-13 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 03/13/2015 01:55 PM, craig wrote: > On 3/13/2015 8:49 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote: >> On 03/13/2015 08:45 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote: >>> On 03/13/2015 08:16 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 13 March 2015 at 15:09, craig wrote: > The connector has 10 pins. I haven't opened up things to find out how >>>

[Emc-users] ASRock mb vs ASUS

2015-03-13 Thread Steven Jursich
on the latency list some listed an ASROCK motherboard E350-m1 having really low latency and jitter, with only a few tweaks. Anyone see why ASUS's counterpart would have anything different integrated that breaks real-time? -

Re: [Emc-users] minitech 3 mill nks-3000 spindle

2015-03-13 Thread andy pugh
On 13 March 2015 at 20:55, craig wrote: > Enough info to begin thinking about building or buying a controller. It seems likely to be a moderately conventional brushless motor. The tricky part is likely to be working out what the little pins are. (power, gnd, hall, encoder) There is a fair chang

Re: [Emc-users] minitech 3 mill nks-3000 spindle

2015-03-13 Thread craig
On 3/13/2015 8:49 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > On 03/13/2015 08:45 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote: >> On 03/13/2015 08:16 AM, andy pugh wrote: >>> On 13 March 2015 at 15:09, craig wrote: The connector has 10 pins. I haven't opened up things to find out how many are connected. >>> Buzzing-through w

Re: [Emc-users] Installing Linuxcnc on fresh Debian

2015-03-13 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 3/13/15 12:56 PM, Marius Alksnys wrote: > What about following these instructions: > http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/getting-started/index.html#_alternate_install_methods > > ? > > On 2015.03.13 13:01, Marius Liebenberg wrote: >> I installed a fresh Debian distro from the debian netinstall

Re: [Emc-users] Installing Linuxcnc on fresh Debian

2015-03-13 Thread Marius Alksnys
What about following these instructions: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/getting-started/index.html#_alternate_install_methods ? On 2015.03.13 13:01, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > I installed a fresh Debian distro from the debian netinstall ISO. Now I > am trying to install LCNC. I cannot seem

Re: [Emc-users] Gmoccapy on Debian

2015-03-13 Thread andy pugh
On 13 March 2015 at 16:35, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > Anything that uses Glade or Gladevcp does not load here??? sudo apt-get install glade-gtk2 Is, I think, what you need. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

Re: [Emc-users] Gmoccapy on Debian

2015-03-13 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Anything that uses Glade or Gladevcp does not load here??? -- Original Message -- From: "sam sokolik" To: "Marius Liebenberg" ; "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Sent: 2015-03-13 18:29:32 Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Gmoccapy on Debian >Gmoccapy loads here. (RIP master..) > >sam > >On

Re: [Emc-users] Gmoccapy on Debian

2015-03-13 Thread sam sokolik
Gmoccapy loads here. (RIP master..) sam On 3/13/2015 11:20 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > Can I expect all lcnc features to run on Debian? Has anyone tested > Gmoccapy on Debian? > > > - > Regards / Groete > > Marius D. Liebenberg > +27 82 698 3251 > +27 12 746 6064 >

[Emc-users] Gmoccapy on Debian

2015-03-13 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Can I expect all lcnc features to run on Debian? Has anyone tested Gmoccapy on Debian? - Regards / Groete Marius D. Liebenberg +27 82 698 3251 +27 12 746 6064 -- Dive into the World of Parall

[Emc-users] Not directly related to LinuxCNC but useful

2015-03-13 Thread Andreas Pettersson
https://industruino.com/ And Arduino unit in the DIN form factor - could be useful in our applications im guessing. =) // A -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and

Re: [Emc-users] Ethernet! - and uspace

2015-03-13 Thread sam sokolik
yes - with rt-preempt you usually get higher jitter. Probably not good for base thread systems. For servo only (with external interface hardware like yours) it will work great. Peter with mesa has also done some magic with his cards (I don't understand it fully) using a DPLL to help negate ji

Re: [Emc-users] minitech 3 mill nks-3000 spindle

2015-03-13 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/13/2015 11:01 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 03/13/2015 10:09 AM, craig wrote: >> On 3/13/2015 2:28 AM, andy pugh wrote: >>> On 13 March 2015 at 00:16, craig wrote: 1. It has a Nakanishi nks-3000 spindle but no controller. Does anyone know what it takes to drive this spindle? >>> How m

Re: [Emc-users] Ethernet!

2015-03-13 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Thais good news indeed. I have to agree the menu config is great although I dont understand half of it. What I did see that was very good is that one can compile the kernel for the exact CPU. When I tried any config other than the full RT I had some problems. I think Peter also reported that.

Re: [Emc-users] Ethernet!

2015-03-13 Thread sam sokolik
I am pretty sure I started with the wheezy linuxcnc iso. sam On 3/13/2015 10:52 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > Hi Sam > What distro are you running on? > > -- Original Message -- > From: "sam sokolik" > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > Sent: 2015-03-13 16:52:52 > Subject: [Em

Re: [Emc-users] Ethernet! - and uspace

2015-03-13 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/13/2015 09:52 AM, sam sokolik wrote: > I still cannot believe that it is possible. I have been testing 2.7+ > uspace for a while now. It defiantly opens up options. > > I just did some comparison tests between rtai and uspace, on a 2 GHz Pentium 4 system. I found uspace had a LITTLE bit mo

Re: [Emc-users] Ethernet!

2015-03-13 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Hi Sam What distro are you running on? -- Original Message -- From: "sam sokolik" To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Sent: 2015-03-13 16:52:52 Subject: [Emc-users] Ethernet! >I still cannot believe that it is possible. I have been testing 2.7+ >uspace for a while now. It defiantly

Re: [Emc-users] Printing from Debian Wheezy

2015-03-13 Thread Rick
I click on "Network Printer" and after a few seconds our network printer shows up, " GestetnerDSM618" in the list, I click on it, click forward, then an installable options page comes up, I click forward, then it shows the description of the printer, and I click apply. This is what it prints o

Re: [Emc-users] Printing from Debian Wheezy

2015-03-13 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/13/2015 08:17 AM, Rick wrote: > Hello All, > > Are there any tricks, or added packages that aren't stock > that I need to do to get my printer connected and > functioning properly. We have a network printer here at my > shop, and I have never had a problem under Ubuntu > connecting and co

Re: [Emc-users] minitech 3 mill nks-3000 spindle

2015-03-13 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 03/13/2015 08:45 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > On 03/13/2015 08:16 AM, andy pugh wrote: >> On 13 March 2015 at 15:09, craig wrote: >>> The connector has 10 pins. I haven't opened up things to find out how >>> many are connected. >> >> Buzzing-through with a multimeter might be instructive. >> >>>

Re: [Emc-users] minitech 3 mill nks-3000 spindle

2015-03-13 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 03/13/2015 08:16 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 13 March 2015 at 15:09, craig wrote: >> The connector has 10 pins. I haven't opened up things to find out how >> many are connected. > > Buzzing-through with a multimeter might be instructive. > >> It also has an air hose going to the spindle. > > Any

Re: [Emc-users] minitech 3 mill nks-3000 spindle

2015-03-13 Thread andy pugh
On 13 March 2015 at 15:09, craig wrote: > The connector has 10 pins. I haven't opened up things to find out how > many are connected. Buzzing-through with a multimeter might be instructive. > It also has an air hose going to the spindle. Any idea if that is a drawbar release, or just for cooli

Re: [Emc-users] minitech 3 mill nks-3000 spindle

2015-03-13 Thread craig
On 3/13/2015 2:28 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 13 March 2015 at 00:16, craig wrote: >> 1. It has a Nakanishi nks-3000 spindle but no controller. >> Does anyone know what it takes to drive this spindle? > How many wires does it have? The connector has 10 pins. I haven't opened up things to find out

[Emc-users] Ethernet!

2015-03-13 Thread sam sokolik
I still cannot believe that it is possible. I have been testing 2.7+ uspace for a while now. It defiantly opens up options. Building the latest rt-preemt using peters instructions and .config made the latency on this laptop much much better. I am running a 2khz servo thread for a day now.

Re: [Emc-users] Installing Linuxcnc on fresh Debian

2015-03-13 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 3/13/15 5:01 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > I installed a fresh Debian distro from the debian netinstall ISO. Now I > am trying to install LCNC. I cannot seem to find a complete instruction > to do so. Can I follow the standard Ubuntu 10.04 instructions or is Debian-based distributions (inclu

Re: [Emc-users] Printing from Debian Wheezy

2015-03-13 Thread Adam McLeod
Hi Rick, What is the printer? I have HP printers and for them there is the hplip package that gives official HP support for their printers. It gives access to the scanning and printing features of the multifunction printers, and works over the network. For other brands, I'm not experienced.

[Emc-users] Printing from Debian Wheezy

2015-03-13 Thread Rick
Hello All, Are there any tricks, or added packages that aren't stock that I need to do to get my printer connected and functioning properly. We have a network printer here at my shop, and I have never had a problem under Ubuntu connecting and configuring the printer. When I try to set up the

Re: [Emc-users] Installing Linuxcnc on fresh Debian

2015-03-13 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Next time, I promise :) -- Original Message -- From: "andy pugh" To: "Marius Liebenberg" ; "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Sent: 2015-03-13 14:31:11 Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Installing Linuxcnc on fresh Debian >On 13 March 2015 at 12:26, Marius Liebenberg >wrote: >>I normal

Re: [Emc-users] Installing Linuxcnc on fresh Debian

2015-03-13 Thread andy pugh
On 13 March 2015 at 12:26, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > I normally install from source only. It is the only way I know how to > :( The packages are rather easier, and faster. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -

Re: [Emc-users] Installing Linuxcnc on fresh Debian

2015-03-13 Thread Marius Liebenberg
I normally install from source only. It is the only way I know how to :( -- Original Message -- From: "andy pugh" To: "Marius Liebenberg" ; "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Sent: 2015-03-13 14:20:21 Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Installing Linuxcnc on fresh Debian >On 13 March 2015 a

Re: [Emc-users] Installing Linuxcnc on fresh Debian

2015-03-13 Thread andy pugh
On 13 March 2015 at 11:01, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > I installed a fresh Debian distro from the debian netinstall ISO. Now I > am trying to install LCNC. I cannot seem to find a complete instruction > to do so Do you want to install from source, or install the pre-compiled binaries? The latter

Re: [Emc-users] Installing Linuxcnc on fresh Debian

2015-03-13 Thread Rick
Marius, Here is what Peter sent me awhile back when I started working on my build, cd ~ sudo apt-get install git-core gitk git-gui sudo apt-get build-dep linuxcnc sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.2.0-4-rt-686-pae sudo apt-get install libudev-dev sudo apt-get install iptables-persistent git clo

[Emc-users] Installing Linuxcnc on fresh Debian

2015-03-13 Thread Marius Liebenberg
I installed a fresh Debian distro from the debian netinstall ISO. Now I am trying to install LCNC. I cannot seem to find a complete instruction to do so. Can I follow the standard Ubuntu 10.04 instructions or is there a place to read up on the right way to do it. What seems confusing to me is t

Re: [Emc-users] minitech 3 mill nks-3000 spindle

2015-03-13 Thread andy pugh
On 13 March 2015 at 00:16, craig wrote: > 1. It has a Nakanishi nks-3000 spindle but no controller. > Does anyone know what it takes to drive this spindle? How many wires does it have? > Do the stepper drivers take pulse and direction controls? > if so, what is parallel port pinout? Does it ha