Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot drivers

2015-04-06 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 4/6/15 11:05 AM, Eric H. Johnson wrote: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description

Re: [Emc-users] PNCConf setup

2015-04-06 Thread Marius Liebenberg
I take it that you got the 7I80 running then. -- Original Message -- From: Rick r...@superiorroll.com To: Marius Liebenberg mar...@mastercut.co.za; Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: 2015-04-06 19:48:31 Subject: Re: [Emc-users] PNCConf setup I think

Re: [Emc-users] PNCConf setup

2015-04-06 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 6 Apr 2015, Rick wrote: Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 13:48:31 -0400 From: Rick r...@superiorroll.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Marius Liebenberg mar...@mastercut.co.za, Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)

Re: [Emc-users] PNCConf setup

2015-04-06 Thread Rick
I think I am going to try to start with just the base INI and the main stuff normally towards the top of the HAL file, temporarily deleting all pin associated verbage, start-up linux, then look at the pin names in the hal show to see what I am dealing with. On 4/6/2015 1:44 PM, Marius

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot drivers

2015-04-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 06 April 2015 13:05:19 Eric H. Johnson wrote: Sebastian, The command as written says no matching files, if I remove the '\', I get: I wonder where that \ came from? It is not there in my copy of the msg. Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold

[Emc-users] Backlash - what are ok numbers?

2015-04-06 Thread John Alexander Stewart
Hi all; Finally fixed the Oldham couplers for my X/Y axes on my latest build, and was measuring backlash for inserting in the LinuxCNC ini file. This is for a G0704 style of mill conversion, using one of those kits from the old KeilingCNC place. X/Y/Z is 0.1mm, 0.24mm 0.1mm or, 2.5 thou, 9

Re: [Emc-users] PNCConf setup

2015-04-06 Thread Rick Lair
On the topic of the 7i80, I am actually doing two machines at once, both nearly identical, the second is about 10 miles down the road though, for a good friend of our shop, and I have done a carbon copy build on both machines. My question is, if the guy at the other shop doesn't have a

Re: [Emc-users] PNCConf setup

2015-04-06 Thread Rick
Not yet, I couldn't remember where I left off, three months ago now, with programming and setup, so I yanked the hard drive, brought in the office, gave it the DBAN treatment, and started over this morning. I am trying to get my HAL and INI files roughed out before I get real involved at the

Re: [Emc-users] Backlash - what are ok numbers?

2015-04-06 Thread Rick Lair
I personally wouldn't think 0.0025 isn't horrible, but the .009 is a little high, but depending on the machine size, it might really not matter. On our machines, that would be problematic, due to the crosslides weighing 3000-4000 lbs, (on the light side depending on the machine, 10,000 on

Re: [Emc-users] PNCConf setup

2015-04-06 Thread Marius Liebenberg
That is about right Rick. -- Original Message -- From: Rick r...@superiorroll.com To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: 2015-04-06 18:58:51 Subject: Re: [Emc-users] PNCConf setup I do have a few, 3 to be exact, running almost a carbon copy

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot drivers

2015-04-06 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Sebastian, Looks like it got it. Thanks much, Eric Ok, so that shows you still have version 0.8.13 of the hostmot2-firmware-7i43-2 installed, as per the prophecy. Upgrade it to 0.8.21 and see how you do. sudo apt-get -uV upgrade hostmot2-firmware-7i43-2

Re: [Emc-users] Backlash - what are ok numbers?

2015-04-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 06 April 2015 14:12:31 John Alexander Stewart wrote: Hi all; Finally fixed the Oldham couplers for my X/Y axes on my latest build, and was measuring backlash for inserting in the LinuxCNC ini file. This is for a G0704 style of mill conversion, using one of those kits from the old

Re: [Emc-users] PNCConf setup

2015-04-06 Thread Rick Lair
I should be able to run the mesaflash utility from my home directory, as long as the .bit file is in that directory correct? Also, I don't have to do anything jumper wise to make this happen do I? I tried running running the mesaflash --device 7i80 --write 7i80hd_16_rmesvss6_6.bit and all I

Re: [Emc-users] PNCConf setup

2015-04-06 Thread Marius Liebenberg
I would get one machine running first and it would be a machine with network access. I tried to get the 7i80 working with only one network card and it gave lot of trouble. I then installed a second network connection and made it exclusive to Hostmot2. Then things started working. You must

Re: [Emc-users] PNCConf setup

2015-04-06 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 6 Apr 2015, Rick Lair wrote: Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 15:29:04 -0400 From: Rick Lair r...@superiorroll.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users]

Re: [Emc-users] PNCConf setup

2015-04-06 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 6 Apr 2015, Rick Lair wrote: Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:13:27 -0400 From: Rick Lair r...@superiorroll.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Marius Liebenberg mar...@mastercut.co.za, Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)

Re: [Emc-users] Backlash - what are ok numbers?

2015-04-06 Thread dave
On 04/06/2015 12:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 06 April 2015 14:12:31 John Alexander Stewart wrote: Hi all; Finally fixed the Oldham couplers for my X/Y axes on my latest build, and was measuring backlash for inserting in the LinuxCNC ini file. This is for a G0704 style of mill

[Emc-users] Hostmot drivers

2015-04-06 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Hi all, I am running into a problem with installing the hostmot drivers that I do not recall encountering before. I installed the 7i43-small packages, then just tried to run the hm2_servo | 7i43-small sample configuration, telling it to make a local copy. It tells me it cannot find

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot drivers

2015-04-06 Thread Eric H. Johnson
All, I should add, I am running on Xubuntu 10.04, which I have done all along because it provides a smaller foot print, and I run headless. I installed from the 10.04 script, then used Synaptic to install the hostmot package (7i43-small). Regards, Eric I am running into a problem with

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot drivers

2015-04-06 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 04/06/2015 07:35 AM, Eric H. Johnson wrote: I should add, I am running on Xubuntu 10.04, which I have done all along because it provides a smaller foot print, and I run headless. I installed from the 10.04 script, then used Synaptic to install the hostmot package (7i43-small). Which

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot drivers

2015-04-06 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Chris, Sorry, typo. BIT. Regards, Eric Sent from Samsung Mobile Original message From: andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com Date: 06/04/2015 8:41 AM (GMT-05:00) To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot drivers On

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot drivers

2015-04-06 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Sebastian, 0.8.13.g3e60a9b Regards, Eric Which version of the hostmot2 packages do you have? Find out with dpkg -l 'hostmot2*'. There was a snafu for a while with the old package compatibility symlinks, maybe something got missed.

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot drivers

2015-04-06 Thread andy pugh
On 6 April 2015 at 11:33, Eric H. Johnson ejohn...@camalytics.com wrote: It tells me it cannot find SVST4_4S.BIN. .BIN or.BIT? -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- BPM Camp

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot drivers

2015-04-06 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Sebastian, Is SVST4_4S.BIT different from SVST4_4.BIT. I assumed the 'S' meant that it was for the small (200K) FPGA. SVST4_4.BIT was the only one that installed with the 7i43-small package. If I drop the hm2/7i43/ from the path in the ini file, it still does not find the BIT file, at least any

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot drivers

2015-04-06 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 4/6/15 9:10 AM, Eric H. Johnson wrote: Is SVST4_4S.BIT different from SVST4_4.BIT. I assumed the 'S' meant that it was for the small (200K) FPGA. SVST4_4.BIT was the only one that installed with the 7i43-small package. There are two SVST4_4 bit files, one for the 400k FPGA (big, aka B) and

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot drivers

2015-04-06 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Sebastian, Never mind, I see the apt-get update did update to version 0.8.21, but still no SVST4_4S.BIT file, and same error when I try to run referencing SVST4_4.BIT. Regards, Eric Sebastian, You mean put deb... in the sources.list file, right? I did that, and apt-get update worked fine and

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot drivers

2015-04-06 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Sebastian, You mean put deb... in the sources.list file, right? I did that, and apt-get update worked fine and identified linuxcnc. Then I should do apt-get install hm2-firmware, right? It says package not found. Regards, Eric There are two SVST4_4 bit files, one for the 400k FPGA (big, aka B)

[Emc-users] PNCConf setup

2015-04-06 Thread Rick
Hello Guys, What would be the closest configuration to try to build with from the PNCConf utility, I am using the 7i80HD-16 card. I know that the card is not an option yet in the utility, and just want to try to get my files roughed out with that, instead of trying to hand write my HAL file

Re: [Emc-users] PNCConf setup

2015-04-06 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 6 Apr 2015, Rick wrote: Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 11:57:21 -0400 From: Rick r...@superiorroll.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Emc Users emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] PNCConf setup Hello Guys, What would

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot drivers

2015-04-06 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 4/6/15 9:59 AM, Eric H. Johnson wrote: Never mind, I see the apt-get update did update to version 0.8.21, but still no SVST4_4S.BIT file, and same error when I try to run referencing SVST4_4.BIT. I think you missed upgrading the hostmot2-firmware-7i43-2 package, because the symlink is

Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot drivers

2015-04-06 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Sebastian, The command as written says no matching files, if I remove the '\', I get: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name

Re: [Emc-users] PNCConf setup

2015-04-06 Thread Rick
I do have a few, 3 to be exact, running almost a carbon copy build (5i23-7i49-7i44-7i71-7i70-7i73), of what I am building now, (7i80-7i49-7i52-7i71-7i70-7i73). Would a line that looked like this before, net spindle-low-range-sol = hm2_5i23.0.7i71.0.3.output-00 Look