Re: [Emc-users] Custom EMC installation?

2015-03-31 Thread Neil
I got past this last night, but still have some issues installing LinuxCNC... Apparently I missed that the ./configure could not find a dependency, so I installed that, then came another and another. So far I've had to install glib, tk, tcl, xinerama, librealtime, bwidget, libboost-python,

Re: [Emc-users] Custom EMC installation? -- BINGO!

2015-03-31 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Neil wrote: Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 18:58:14 -0400 From: Neil emc_d...@narwani.org To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Custom EMC installation? -- BINGO! Peter, Yep, it's what I installed, on an Atom D525MW

Re: [Emc-users] Machinery Cleaning

2015-03-31 Thread richshoop
I want to thank all those who took the time to help. Here's what I did to save this very nice Spanish machine tool. Used a plastic stiff putty knife and scraped just the surface Using a couple of layers of paper towels over the table that I'm cleaning, and soaked them with paint thinner for

Re: [Emc-users] Custom EMC installation?

2015-03-31 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 03/31/2015 07:26 AM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Neil wrote: Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:00:25 -0400 From: Neil emc_d...@narwani.org To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Custom EMC installation? I got past this last night, but still have some

[Emc-users] Pendant help

2015-03-31 Thread Juan Posada
Hello everyone. I am a new EMC user moving over from Mach 3. I had been using the ShuttleRU http://cncpendant.ru/en/shuttlerustm32.html pendant which does not come with a linux driver. Is there a way to make it work? I am fairly technical, can read and write basic code, and even have access to the

Re: [Emc-users] Pendant help

2015-03-31 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 3/31/15 9:22 AM, Juan Posada wrote: Hello everyone. I am a new EMC user moving over from Mach 3. I had been using the ShuttleRU http://cncpendant.ru/en/shuttlerustm32.html pendant which does not come with a linux driver. Is there a way to make it work? I am fairly technical, can read and

Re: [Emc-users] Pendant help

2015-03-31 Thread Scott Salrin
Welcome Juan, I see a lot of folks migrating from Mach. I've not started yet, but have chosen LCNC, primarily due to the manufacturer building my machine will not support it using Mach. The ShuttleRU is a nice piece of work. I went with the XHC-HB04 because it's known to work in LinuxCNC. I

Re: [Emc-users] Custom EMC installation? -- BINGO!

2015-03-31 Thread Neil
Okay guys, we're there at last... It works! Specifically OpenPnP coexists with LinuxCNC on the same machine. Now the not-so-great news... I do not like the latency. At first I thought I can live with the lower speed, but stepconf only lets me set the latency to 5ns, when I'm seeing test

Re: [Emc-users] Custom EMC installation? -- BINGO!

2015-03-31 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 3/31/15 12:50 PM, Neil wrote: Okay guys, we're there at last... It works! Specifically OpenPnP coexists with LinuxCNC on the same machine. Now the not-so-great news... I do not like the latency. At first I thought I can live with the lower speed, but stepconf only lets me set the

Re: [Emc-users] Custom EMC installation? -- BINGO!

2015-03-31 Thread Neil
Awesome thanks. On 3/31/2015 3:16 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: It's super easy. We provide rtai kernel packages for Ubuntu 12.04. Grab the latest linux-image from here: http://linuxcnc.org/dists/precise/base/binary-i386/

Re: [Emc-users] Custom EMC installation?

2015-03-31 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Neil wrote: Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:00:25 -0400 From: Neil emc_d...@narwani.org To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Custom EMC installation? I got past this last night, but still have some issues installing LinuxCNC... Apparently I missed

Re: [Emc-users] Custom EMC installation? -- BINGO!

2015-03-31 Thread John Alexander Stewart
Neil; I've got 3 of these boards. Two with Mesa 5i25s in them, and they *scream*. One that is software stepping, that'll be repurposed shortly (beagleboard with xylotex cape arrived yesterday - smiles all around) Make sure: 1) hyperthreading is turned off in BIOS; 2) try the isolcpus bit -

Re: [Emc-users] Custom EMC installation? -- BINGO!

2015-03-31 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Neil wrote: Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:50:30 -0400 From: Neil emc_d...@narwani.org To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Custom EMC installation? -- BINGO! Okay guys, we're there at last... It works! Specifically

Re: [Emc-users] Custom EMC installation? -- BINGO!

2015-03-31 Thread Neil
Peter, Yep, it's what I installed, on an Atom D525MW 1.8 Ghz. uname -a gives me 3.18.9-rt5 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT ... Cheers, -Neil. On 3/31/2015 5:03 PM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: Are you sure you are running the preemt-rt kernel? Preemt-rt has pretty poor latency on Atom MBs (I think you said