Re: [Emc-users] Need compile help

2011-08-09 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
about libXt, but I'm not going to bother fixing that now But I will push the two things that look like real bugs in our build. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities

Re: [Emc-users] tool length probing does not work as expected

2011-07-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
the parport/probe bugfix), you can also use the v2.4_branch packages from the buildbot. The fix went into 2.4.6-44, so it's included in the most recent version, which is 2.4.6-74. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Storage

Re: [Emc-users] difficulty compiling emc2 master

2011-07-13 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
: install the pre-built debs from the buildbot. Instructions here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/emcinfo.pl?Installing_EMC2#Debs_of_recent_git_versions -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge

[Emc-users] estop switch question

2011-06-22 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
that latches on, can be easily unlatched by punching it (like an e-stop button), and that unlatches automatically when the bottom limit switch (or the fuse) opens the circuit. Any suggestions? -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] Backplot window limit on number of toolpaths colored

2011-05-17 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
? 2.4 release. Projected timeline? We don't really have any timeline for releases, of any branch. It's when the developers find time for it. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Achieve unprecedented app performance

Re: [Emc-users] Guidance on usb comp

2011-02-24 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
project, but it has to be done, then supported. I'm currently talking to PoLabs (the makers of PoKeys) about doing this work for them. We'll see what comes of it. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky the moon is full here every night / and i can bathe here in his light the leaves will bury every year

Re: [Emc-users] Guidance on usb comp

2011-02-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
USB HID keyboard and joystick. Based on that, I'd expect it to just work with hal_input. Is that not the case? -- Sebastian Kuzminsky the moon is full here every night / and i can bathe here in his light the leaves will bury every year / and no one knows i'm gone -- tom waits

Re: [Emc-users] Rotated coordinate system

2011-02-18 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
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Re: [Emc-users] Ethernet with EMC2

2011-02-06 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
or Ethernet, someone would have to write an hm2_usb or hm2_ethernet module, which would detect the AnyIO board(s) and provide this interface to them. This in turn would require access to the local USB or Ethernet controller from within rtai. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky and the young people ask me

Re: [Emc-users] Second (PCI) parallel port card

2011-01-27 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
chipset are still advertised as supporting EPP... :-( I'll try to take another look at the Lava boards soonish. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally

Re: [Emc-users] Halscope as an oscilloscope?

2011-01-22 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
as fast as your base thread, so you're somewhat limited in the speed of signals you can examine. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log

[Emc-users] the buildbot is back

2011-01-20 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
or bugs to me. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code

Re: [Emc-users] Toolpaths from simple line drawings?

2011-01-15 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
-specific. Thanks for any help or advice. I think this topic is totally apropos on the emc-users list. :-) -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics

Re: [Emc-users] 7i43 setup woes

2010-12-22 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
. Hopefully this weekend I'll have access to a DOS box with more standard hardware for another test. (and some more parts to make another cable). If you un-blacklist the linux parport driver, what IO addresses does it detect for the on-board parallel port? -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

[Emc-users] the buildbot is going down

2010-12-17 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
post a message with all the new info when the move is done. For now you might want to disable emc2-buildbot in your apt sources, or live with the warning messages that it's unreachable. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-15 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
/configs' Machine configuration file is 'g540' Could not find ini file '/home/dave/emc2/configs/g540' So the reason it won't start up is that it can't find the ini file you specified. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-15 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
, is the full path name to the ini file. A config directory may contain several ini files. This is useful for things like the hm2-servo family of configs, where several different .ini files share .hal files etc. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-11 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
wrong! ;-) -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement

Re: [Emc-users] fixed jog distance

2010-12-08 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
that increments whenever any of the jog a fixed amount buttons is pushed. Untested! But that's where I would start. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- This SF Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: WikiLeaks The End of the Free

Re: [Emc-users] Need HELP with Ubuntu 10.04 and EMC2 2.4.5 Homing.

2010-11-19 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
HOME_USE_INDEX =NO HOME_OFFSET=0.05 HOME =0.0 #HOME_SEQUENCE =1 This has the same problem as the X axis above. HOME_OFFSET must be inside the soft limits. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] Need HELP with Ubuntu 10.04 and EMC2 2.4.5 Homing.

2010-11-19 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
=YES HOME_USE_INDEX =NO HOME_OFFSET= 10.7 HOME = 10.7 #HOME =0.0 Hm, that all looks right. You know to exit emc2 and restart it for each .ini file change to take effect, right? (Sorry if you already know this...) -- Sebastian

Re: [Emc-users] American Robot at MPM

2010-11-16 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
on the joints_axes3 development branch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80YhX73DuSg Too freaking cool! And I'm glad to see you're putting the old control computer to good use ;-) -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Beautiful is writing

Re: [Emc-users] American Robot at MPM

2010-11-16 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
all the cables related to the disk and try again. That machine is a bit goofy in that it has a SATA controller on the motherboard but a PATA hard disk, and it has a SATA-to-PATA adapter in between. So lots of connectors that can work loose. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] American Robot at MPM

2010-11-16 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
by the big yellow crane. That same out-of-date version is also on the USB flash drive with the broken case, i left that on the little metal table next to the robot and the crane. But that was before y'all got it all up and running, so probably not that useful. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] American Robot at MPM

2010-11-15 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
! Cool Chris! :-) -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View

Re: [Emc-users] 7i43 or 5i20

2010-10-24 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Reedjsr...@hotmail.com wrote: Yes, but you can have the 7i43 or 5i20 perform the PID calculations. Are you sure? -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators

Re: [Emc-users] return to home

2010-10-22 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 10/22/2010 03:20 PM, For Sale Sticker wrote: OK - so this might be kind of a silly question I know - but is there a simple way to have all the axis return to the home position (without joging by hand). g53 g0 x0 y0 z0 Or look at g28 and g30. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] 5i20 Servo and General Input / Output

2010-09-29 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
. It would be a compact CNC control for under $900US. Any thoughts? The hostmot2 driver supports the 4i65 and 4i68 PC/104 AnyIO boards. I don't know about the 4i38, 4i39, 4i34, or 4i69. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Start

Re: [Emc-users] 5i20 Servo and General Input / Output

2010-09-29 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
, and the 4i65 is more like the 5i20, in terms of the PCI chipset and FPGA used. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment

Re: [Emc-users] The kind of fun I had yesterday

2010-09-09 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
to close the clamps around the router spindle? Show us a video of the router cutting something in a routerish fashion! -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel

Re: [Emc-users] minimal pyvcp jogwheel example

2010-08-27 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
=88e0007c48e798ca193861cabd78a5d2d06e1bd7;hb=HEAD (My jog increments are 1000x smaller than the units of the machine, because the jogwheel runs through an ilowpass component that magnifies it by 1000x.) -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Sell apps

Re: [Emc-users] Wichita fest

2010-08-25 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
, if the STS133 launch doesn't slip. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide

Re: [Emc-users] Wichita fest

2010-08-25 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special

[Emc-users] Axis UI vs control panel

2010-08-20 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
on the control panel? Does Axis not use the axis.* pins to jog? What's going on here? I'm confused... -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry

Re: [Emc-users] Axis UI vs control panel

2010-08-20 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
or need the physical switches, and has pretty much become the default setup. John Kasunich -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry

Re: [Emc-users] Is there an include directory inside NGC files, and local variables

2010-08-09 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
. You can call subroutines that are in other files, using the o call syntax: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/2.4/html/gcode_main.html#r3_7 Variables in the called file are local to the called file, they do not become available in the caller after the call returns. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky sky

Re: [Emc-users] How can I install EMC on 10.04 for simulation only

2010-08-06 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
?Ubuntu10.04PackageNotes Note that our official lucid sim packages at linuxcnc.org are currently only available in 32-bit. There are 64-bit lucid sim packages available from the buildbot: http://emc2-buildbot.colorado.edu/~buildmaster/ -- Sebastian Kuzminsky sky is black / stars show me the way moon

Re: [Emc-users] emc packages for ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx ?

2010-07-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
a reliable realtime kernel yet for Lucid. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky If we stopped pretending to be puppets of an invisible hand, we would not fret over the loss of the 20th century's strings. We might see that life is sweet. -- Bruno Argento http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2009/01

Re: [Emc-users] EMC 2.4.2 Homing to index after limit/home switch.

2010-07-16 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
/html/config_ini_homing.html It's not the clearest config example perhaps, but the hm2-servo config includes homing both with and without index. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky The Martians continued hammering and stirring, sleepless, indefatiguable, at work upon the machines they were making. Now

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle at speed Coordinated Motion problems?

2010-07-15 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
.html http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.4/html/man/man9/lowpass.9.html -- Sebastian Kuzminsky The Martians continued hammering and stirring, sleepless, indefatiguable, at work upon the machines they were making. Now and again a light like the beam of a warship searchlight swept the commons, and the heat

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 Question

2010-05-09 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
of the hm2-servo config, such as the one in the just-release 2.4.0. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https

Re: [Emc-users] Update on EMC at NAMES 2010

2010-04-16 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
for the documentation maintainers to make the manuals even more complete. This sounds super useful! I'll be happy to help with any hostmot2 testing debugging I can. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Download Intel#174; Parallel

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 spindle velocity control

2010-03-25 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
with Google does not mention those pins, hence the half-baked idea I posted. Hmm, the drivers_hostmot2 page is somewhat out of date. The manpage (that i linked to you) is correct. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Download Intel

Re: [Emc-users] upgrading EMC2 version

2010-03-20 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
versions, including emc2. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel

Re: [Emc-users] CAM solutions

2010-03-20 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
just fine. I don't have any CNC machines yet, so I haven't gone all the way yet. In the awesome future there will be a full set of open source CAD/CAM/CNC software on the EMC2 LiveCD, but we're not quite there yet. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] 'Touchy' touch screen interface

2010-03-20 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
the sim/touchy sample config work? It won't run your machine, but it might help us figure out why your real config wont work. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools

Re: [Emc-users] G52 and Fanuc conversion to EMC

2010-03-20 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
. It's probably installed on your system, or you can see it on the web here: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/hostmot2.9.html There's also this document: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/drivers_hostmot2.html -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] G52 and Fanuc conversion to EMC

2010-03-20 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Andy Pugh wrote: On 21 March 2010 01:47, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote: There's also this document: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/drivers_hostmot2.html There is no mention of any Digital-to-Analog there. I have seen references to DAC outputs on the 5I20

Re: [Emc-users] 'Touchy' touch screen interface

2010-03-20 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
touchy -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel

Re: [Emc-users] 'Touchy' touch screen interface

2010-03-19 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
instructions work. Bug reports against the pre-release versions are very welcome! -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs

Re: [Emc-users] Which version do I have?

2010-03-14 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Lars Andersson wrote: How do I check which version I have installed now? dpkg -l '*emc2*' That will list all packages with emc2 in the name, show if they're installed, and if so what the installed version is. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper motor performance

2010-03-10 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
. The base thread is 2. With a 5i20, you generally don't use a base thread - it's in the FPGA. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed

Re: [Emc-users] Analog spindle control HM2

2010-03-05 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
.value The hm2 pwmgen has its own .scale parameter, so you could get rid of the stand-alone scale component and just apply the scale.gain to hm2's pwmgen.scale. http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/drivers_hostmot2.html#r1_14_2 -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] motenc lite servo issue

2010-02-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
) coming into the motenc? The encoder on the motor is fed to the drive and the drive is sending the pulses to the motenc. Can the output be reversed in the motenc.ini file? You might try inverting the sign on either OUTPUT_SCALE or INPUT_SCALE in your motenc.ini. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] hal modules - i2c, 1wire, uart...

2010-02-16 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
/bit), and you can probe the device to see if it supports overdrive (9 us/bit). -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot question

2010-02-13 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
. You know this is an open list with plenty of non-US subscribers, right? -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot question

2010-02-13 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
not, for comparison? That sounds like a real bug somewhere... -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot question

2010-02-10 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
on the output pin. (In open drain mode, the FPGA does not pull the pin high on logic 1, it disconnects from the pin and a 10K resistor pulls it to +5.) Something to play with. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS

Re: [Emc-users] Using a stepper motor as a spindle ( controlled via Mesa 7i43?)

2010-01-27 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
, the config string is near the top of the .ini file. The pins to use are shown in the dmesg when you load the new config. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky an it harm none, do what you will -- Christopher Bingham -- The Planet

[Emc-users] experimental packages of the git master branch are available

2010-01-27 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
these packages on your machine are here: http://emc2-buildbot.colorado.edu/~buildmaster/ -- Sebastian Kuzminsky an it harm none, do what you will -- Christopher Bingham -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud

Re: [Emc-users] hostmot2: Unknown symbol __fixunsdfdi

2010-01-21 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
)bitfile-e.size / ((double)duration_ns / (double)(1000 * 1000 * 1000))) / 1024) +duration_ns ); } } Looks good to me. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Throughout its 18-year history

Re: [Emc-users] PWM input to EMC2

2010-01-12 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
, and then goes in to a servo amp or similar. What are you trying to do? -- Sebastian Kuzminsky we are children equally of the earth and the sky -- Carl Sagan -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer

Re: [Emc-users] PWM input to EMC2

2010-01-12 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
in this direction by various folks (search the mailing list archives and irc logs if you're curious), but so far nothing has solidified. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky we are children equally of the earth and the sky -- Carl Sagan

Re: [Emc-users] Logging pos, vel and accel with errors to syslog

2010-01-09 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
-direction/dotest -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i20 5i23

2010-01-08 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
, but for the PCI and PCI-Express boards. PCI I/O latency is dominated by bus setup and negotiation, this is especially bad when several busses are chained, as they are with the 3x20. DMA should provide a dramatic speedup in this situation. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 newbie stuck

2010-01-08 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
/examples/sample-configs/hm2-stepper/7i43-small.ini Have you tried running emc and selecting the hm2-stepper/7i43-big config from the list? I didnt see any of the hostmot2 output in the dmesg log you included. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i20 5i23

2010-01-07 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
of resolution, which is ample. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i20 5i23

2010-01-06 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Dave wrote: On 1/6/2010 4:21 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: There is currently nothing to be gained by using the 5i23 over the 5i20, but there are two possible future advantages that may become real some time. One is that the 5i23 has a 400 Kgate FPGA (vs the 200 Kgate FPGA on the 5i20

Re: [Emc-users] Advice on servos

2010-01-05 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
the motor up and running. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market

Re: [Emc-users] Advice on servos

2010-01-05 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
. All the PCI, PCI-Express, and PC/104-Plus boards work well too. That's the 5i20, 5i22, 5i23, 4i65, 4i68, and 3x20. (Support for the 3x20 is in the upcoming 2.4, but not in 2.3.) The 5i20 is probably the most common and most widely used. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] Servo cycle times for pci parallel cards and mesa 7i43 cards

2009-12-07 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
this (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.emc.user/8473/focus=8594), i measured that the 7i43 tops out at about 5 KHz for a 4-axis servo machine, assuming you want 50% of your CPU time for things other than talking to the 7i43. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] Working parport pci chipsets

2009-12-07 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
msecs seems fine. This sounds like something is wrong. A 1 ms servo period should be very easily doable with the 7i43. Can you pastebin your .ini and .hal files for us to see? -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Return

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 and a oxford semiconductor ox12pci840 chipset pci parallel card

2009-12-06 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
pci cards are junk ? Yes, the 9805 chipset is buggy and there's nothing any driver can do about it. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused

Re: [Emc-users] Wiki....what ???

2009-12-03 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
in on??? It's http://wiki.linuxcnc.org, and yes, there should probably be a link to it from the main linuxcnc.org web page. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused

Re: [Emc-users] Upgrading from 2.3.9 to 2.3.4

2009-11-29 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
name. The mapping from IONum to connector and pin on that connector is written to the syslog when the driver loads, and it’s documented in Mesa’s manual for the Anything I/O boards. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Let

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 disabling download of FPGA configuration

2009-11-26 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
shutting down EMC and then restarting EMC. As far as I know it never happens after a cold boot, and only rarely when stopping and starting the EMC software. The relay that's connected to the gpio output, what voltage current does it need to turn on? What does it need to turn off? -- Sebastian

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 disabling download of FPGA configuration

2009-11-25 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
pin configured as GPIO? Is this I/O pin set to be an output in HAL (gpio.XXX.is_output = 1)? -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa card question

2009-11-01 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
! -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications

Re: [Emc-users] threading Z oscillation depends on encoder PPR

2009-10-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Michael Haberler wrote: I concur that having position-interpolated in the hardware drivers would be most valuable (hm2 for me, but missing as well) It *would* be a good feature to have. I'll put this on The List. ;-) -- Sebastian Kuzminsky the sky calls to us -- carl sagan http

Re: [Emc-users] threading Z oscillation depends on encoder PPR

2009-10-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Michael Haberler wrote: How do I go about putting a hm2 encoder in x1-mode ? The hm2 driver does not currently support encoder x1 mode. Look for it later this fall. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky the sky calls to us -- carl sagan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

Re: [Emc-users] threading Z oscillation depends on encoder PPR

2009-10-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
update the manpage to note this behavior. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky the sky calls to us -- carl sagan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA

Re: [Emc-users] threading Z oscillation depends on encoder PPR

2009-10-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: The hm2 driver does not currently support encoder x1 mode. Look for it later this fall. unless this is another sematic issue, x1 mode (count on only one edge bidirectional counter mode) is supported, its a totally

Re: [Emc-users] threading Z oscillation depends on encoder PPR

2009-10-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
-dir-mode/dotest -- Sebastian Kuzminsky the sky calls to us -- carl sagan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 7i43 config file request

2009-10-15 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
want to move that to the 7i43 too. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills

Re: [Emc-users] hostmot2 servo on 5i20/7i40 - cannot change INPUT_SCALE

2009-10-13 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Rob Jansen wrote: Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/EMC2_Integrator_Manual.pdf 2.2 explains the basic concept. Section 29 goes a bit deeper into tuning of the PID constants but OUTPUT_SCALE and MAX_OUTPUT are not mentioned over there. OUTPUT_SCALE

Re: [Emc-users] HAL setup of Mesa 4i65

2009-10-09 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
these Subsystem IDs will be ignored by the driver. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your

Re: [Emc-users] HAL setup of Mesa 4i65

2009-10-09 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: The driver looks for boards with the Device ID of the PCI9030 (10b5:9030) and the Subsystem ID of the 5i20 (10b5:3131) or 4i65 (10b5:3132). Any 9030's lacking these Subsystem IDs will be ignored by the driver. Which

Re: [Emc-users] HAL setup of Mesa 4i65

2009-10-08 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
. Also, it's missing Region 5, which is supposed to be 64K of memory... This might be because the board has the wrong Subsystem info, and the driver never gets ahold of it to call pci_enable() on it. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] 7I33 and mesa 5I20

2009-09-12 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
get 0 and for any other value 10V. What i'm doing wrong? Not posting your HAL settings along with your question! (But really, maybe your scale is wrong.) Could be scale, or it could be pwm_frequency (default is 20 KHz, but the 7i33 wants 192 KHz i think). -- Sebastian Kuzminsky any

Re: [Emc-users] 7I33 and mesa 5I20

2009-09-12 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
in 10V output from the 7i33. A value of 0.5 should result in 5V being output, etc. Is that not what you're seeing? -- Sebastian Kuzminsky any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science -- Let

Re: [Emc-users] (RTAI?) error on initial attempt to tickle 5i20

2009-09-04 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167061 2009-07-27 00:06 /lib/firmware/hm2/5i20/SVST8_4.BIT So the invalid token is quite inscrutable at this stage. The firmware finder program looks in /lib/firmware, so you need to tell it just hm2/5i20/SVST8_4.BIT. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky any sufficiently analyzed

Re: [Emc-users] (RTAI?) error on initial attempt to tickle 5i20

2009-09-03 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
and the second line is the hm2_pci driver loading. The hm2_pci driver did not see any boards it recognized. Then half a second later emc2 has errored out (the pwm_frequency not found error above) and everything gets unloaded. What does lspci -vvnn say? -- Sebastian Kuzminsky any sufficiently

Re: [Emc-users] m5i20 watchdog is biting

2009-08-28 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
the realtime subsystem was started... And then set it to something nice and short, like a small multiple of the servo period. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science -- Let

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot firmware question

2009-08-20 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
provide any more details? -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7I43 use with EMC2

2009-08-03 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
... For programming the device... If you're talking about sending a compiled firmware image to the 7i43, the hostmot2 driver does that when you start emc2. If you're talking about compiling custom VHDL code into a firmware image, the Xilinx software does that. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] Code help

2009-08-03 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
.git find . -name rcs.hh ./src/libnml/rcs/rcs.hh 0 s...@water /home/seb/emc2.git find . -name rcs_print.hh ./src/libnml/rcs/rcs_print.hh 0 s...@water /home/seb/emc2.git find . -name timer.hh ./src/libnml/os_intf/timer.hh 0 s...@water /home/seb/emc2.git -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7I43 use with EMC2

2009-08-02 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
-50 KHz depending on your computer. The fastest hm2 stepping that i know if is the Smithy machines that step at 400 KHz with no problems; the firmware can go way faster than that. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Let Crystal

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7I43 use with EMC2 a pimer please?

2009-08-02 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
thread on the FPGA. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7I43 use with EMC2 a pimer please?

2009-08-02 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
of it as running the base thread on the FPGA. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7I43 use with EMC2 a pimer please?

2009-08-02 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
commands get turned into waypoints, and passed (via HAL) to the hostmot2 driver. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design

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