Re: [Emc-users] Dual boot for WIN-XP and LinuxCNC

2019-05-27 Thread John Dammeyer
I installed the linuxcnc-2.7.14-wheezy.iso I want to download putty so I can access the com1 port and talk to the DC Servo controller for diagnostics. Standard practice for the Pi and Beaglebone is to sudo apt-get update and this is what I get with linuxCNC Hit http://linuxcnc.org wheezy

Re: [Emc-users] Increasingly OT: [Was: Re: How come.... --> Low voltage system

2019-05-27 Thread Chris Albertson
The low volts significantly raise the cost. I remember buying wire (some years ago) for a system on my sailboat and paying $5 per foot. OK, I just looked up the cost of wire that is suitable for a 4KW low volt system. Home Depot sells a 12 foot run of black and red #0 wire for $93. That is less

Re: [Emc-users] Dual boot for WIN-XP and LinuxCNC

2019-05-27 Thread John Dammeyer
> > > > But it was there once. So far only a reboot has fixed this. I'm not sure > > why. > > > Sometimes you can end up with kernel modules that claim to be dependent > on > each other, and the kernel won't let either fo them go. > (at this point it is rather out of LinuxCNC's hands) > > You

Re: [Emc-users] Dual boot for WIN-XP and LinuxCNC

2019-05-27 Thread John Dammeyer
So new problem. Using the config program I've made up a 4 axis parallel port hal/ini with just the one parallel port since importing the MACH3 config blows up with the second parallel port issue. I'll work on that later. The PMD_126 BoB has the Charge Pump mapped to net charge-pump =>

Re: [Emc-users] Dual boot for WIN-XP and LinuxCNC

2019-05-27 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 27 May 2019 at 23:50, John Dammeyer wrote: > > But it was there once. So far only a reboot has fixed this. I'm not sure > why. Sometimes you can end up with kernel modules that claim to be dependent on each other, and the kernel won't let either fo them go. (at this point it is

Re: [Emc-users] Dual boot for WIN-XP and LinuxCNC

2019-05-27 Thread John Dammeyer
> > When I run Linux with a customized hal and config file it will crash > > with the window with the errors. But after that I can't even run the > > stock single parallel port version without it crashing. It's like the > > 0x378 port has now vanished. > > > It has. You will need to blacklist

Re: [Emc-users] POSITION_FILE

2019-05-27 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 27 May 2019 at 20:15, Maxime Lemonnier wrote: > > When I reload linuxcnc, and want to use the MDI, I have to home all axis > But then I'd loose the current position (reset to zero). The machine moves to the home position, but your G554 (etc) offsets stay the same. So you should be able

[Emc-users] POSITION_FILE

2019-05-27 Thread Maxime Lemonnier
Hi all, Simple question for you. I know I can use the config.ini -- ... [TRAJ] POSITION_FILE = foo.txt -- option to have linuxcnc remember the position in which the machine shut down. When I reload linuxcnc, and want to use the MDI, I have to home all axis

Re: [Emc-users] Dual boot for WIN-XP and LinuxCNC

2019-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 27 May 2019 01:24:13 am John Dammeyer wrote: > Thanks everyone. I booted from the LinuxCNC live DVD I created. > Once I realized that the single partition I'd reserved for Linux > needed to be turned into two partitions, one for the swap file and one > for the data disk things went

Re: [Emc-users] Increasingly OT: [Was: Re: How come.... --> Low voltage system

2019-05-27 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
On Sun, 26 May 2019 13:07:51 -0400 Dave Cole wrote: > There are some good reasons to use a 24 or 48 volt DC bus power system > for smaller systems. > The chance of electrocution is pretty low for a 48 volt DC system in a > dry environment. > Once you get above 50 volts or so things change.

Re: [Emc-users] Dual boot for WIN-XP and LinuxCNC

2019-05-27 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 27 May 2019 at 06:26, John Dammeyer wrote: But after that I can't even run the stock single parallel port version > without it crashing. It's like the 0x378 port has now vanished. Try a simple config with one parallell port at a time. halrun loadrt hal_parport cfg="0xd000 out" exit

Re: [Emc-users] Atomic pi

2019-05-27 Thread Robert Murphy
Quick update.. After seeing JT's thread on the forum I installed Lubuntu Bionic-Beaver. Followed the instructions for building the kernel (used make deb-pkg), more or less used the Mint 19 recipe to build Linuxcnc (did this on my T530 Thinkpad). Installed said kernel & packages on the Atomic