Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2020-03-20 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 at 20:48, andy pugh wrote: > Maybe the answer is for the tool to make a copy of the library file to > the config > folder, and mess with that. I tried that, and it ran, but created a broken config. The problem is that this is a lathe config with a full set of Y pins, even

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2020-03-20 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 at 04:08, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > At last, I remembered the .tgz! And I finally got round to looking at it. The problem seems to be that your config uses a library file (core stepper.hal) that the tool can't (and probably shouldn't) change. Maybe the answer is for the tool

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2019-12-22 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/20/19 3:59 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 11:57, Thomas D. Dean wrote: The conversion tool failed to convert my old sherline lathe config. Can you attach the zipped-up converted config? (That should contain the original config in an "old" directory) I will try to spot

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2019-12-20 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/20/19 3:59 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 11:57, Thomas D. Dean wrote: The conversion tool failed to convert my old sherline lathe config. Can you attach the zipped-up converted config? (That should contain the original config in an "old" directory) I will try to spot

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2019-12-20 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 11:57, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > The conversion tool failed to convert my old sherline lathe config. Can you attach the zipped-up converted config? (That should contain the original config in an "old" directory) I will try to spot what is going wrong. -- atp "A motorcycle

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2019-12-20 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/20/19 2:43 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 03:34, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I did a 'git pull' and built the 'run in place' version. I modified the SherlineLathe_inch.ini file to have 2 axis and removed the [Y Axis] and [joint_1] sections. I changed the [Z Axis] [joint_2] to

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2019-12-20 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 03:34, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > > I did a 'git pull' and built the 'run in place' version. > > I modified the SherlineLathe_inch.ini file to have 2 axis and removed > the [Y Axis] and [joint_1] sections. I changed the [Z Axis] [joint_2] > to [Joint_1]. The patch that Dewey

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure FIXED

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/19/19 5:38 PM, Dewey Garrett wrote: With both the installed and the 'run in place' versions, the home Axis button for the Z axis does nothing. This is a newly reported bug for the axis gui and 'historical' lathe configurations that specified 3 axes (xyz) for a lathe (xz). In earlier

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I did a 'git pull' and built the 'run in place' version. I modified the SherlineLathe_inch.ini file to have 2 axis and removed the [Y Axis] and [joint_1] sections. I changed the [Z Axis] [joint_2] to [Joint_1]. The SherlineLathe_inch.ini uses HALFILE = core_stepper.hal I think I need to

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2019-12-19 Thread Dewey Garrett
> With both the installed and the 'run in place' versions, > the home Axis button for the Z axis does nothing. This is a newly reported bug for the axis gui and 'historical' lathe configurations that specified 3 axes (xyz) for a lathe (xz). In earlier branches, the 'y' entry was required to make

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2019-12-19 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
with the lathe axis lettering. There is a section on that page that discusses lathe issues. -Original Message- From: Thomas D. Dean [mailto:tomd...@wavecable.com] Sent: Friday, 20 December 2019 10:09 AM To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/19/19 2:38 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I installed linuxcnc from git sources. The mill config seems to work OK with my old 'wheezy' config as converted by linuxcnc_2.9.0~pre0_amd64.  Manual control seems to work. MDI seems to work. The lathe config from 'wheezy' would not work after

[Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I installed linuxcnc from git sources. The mill config seems to work OK with my old 'wheezy' config as converted by linuxcnc_2.9.0~pre0_amd64. Manual control seems to work. MDI seems to work. The lathe config from 'wheezy' would not work after conversion by linuxcnc_2.9.0~pre0_amd64. I

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
As noted above, I build .deb from git sources. I installed using the method given by Dewey. Initial install shows the following depends not met: linuxcnc depends on python2.7-glade2 | python-glade2; however: Package python2.7-glade2 is not installed. Package python-glade2 is not installed.

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/19/19 5:34 AM, Dewey Garrett wrote: $ man dpkg ... --force-help Give help about the --force-thing options. ... The command: 'dpkg --force-help' shows how to force an install. $ dpkg --force-help|grep depend [!] dependsTurn all dependency problems into

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/19/19 5:34 AM, Dewey Garrett wrote: $ man dpkg ... --force-help Give help about the --force-thing options. ... The command: 'dpkg --force-help' shows how to force an install. $ dpkg --force-help|grep depend [!] dependsTurn all dependency problems into

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-19 Thread Dewey Garrett
$ man dpkg ... --force-help Give help about the --force-thing options. ... The command: 'dpkg --force-help' shows how to force an install. $ dpkg --force-help|grep depend [!] dependsTurn all dependency problems into warnings [!] depends-versionTurn dependency

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-19 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 at 06:10, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > order to do that, the python-vte problem has to be fixed. > > Where should this fix be applied? I think that it is in the Debian control files. https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master/debian/control.bottom.in I have been away from

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/18/19 9:35 PM, bari wrote: "Gmoccapy and Gscreen want python-vte, but you should be able to run other GUIs without it." On 12/18/19 11:26 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: Now, if the problem with python-vte can be fixed, I can install linuxcnc. Again, I can run the 'run in place' version.

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-18 Thread bari
"Gmoccapy and Gscreen want python-vte, but you should be able to run other GUIs without it." On 12/18/19 11:26 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > Now, if the problem with python-vte can be fixed, I can install linuxcnc. ___ Emc-users mailing list

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
Most of my computers are multi-user, although that is becoming more difficult. I have one install for an application for all users. Since the package creation/installation is broken, I decided to go back to one computer, one person philosophy. I cleaned the build tree, configured, and built

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I built linuxcnc from git sources. Build was OK. Install was not. The problem is still python-vte and mismatched version of libvte-common. Tom Dean Here is what I did. Building linuxcnc in debial 10 from linuxcnc/tmp:

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-18 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 11:21, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > > How do I get kernel-mode RTAI? That is a new term... The fact of the matter is that I am being vague because I am fuzzy on how the build config works. (I hope somebody else understands it :) "Normal" RTAI, as used historically with

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/18/19 2:43 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 10:18, Thomas D. Dean wrote: --with-realtime=uspace Build for any realtime platform, or for non-realtime. The resulting LinuxCNC executables will run on both a Linux kernel with Preempt-RT patches (providing realtime

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-18 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 10:18, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > --with-realtime=uspace > > Build for any realtime platform, or for non-realtime. The resulting > LinuxCNC executables will run on both a Linux kernel with Preempt-RT > patches (providing realtime machine control) and on a vanilla >

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/18/19 1:14 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 03:19, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I have buster installed and rtai-modules-4.14.148_5.2.3-linuxcnc_amd64.deb I built linuxcnc, running the buster rtai kernel, from the git sources. ... linuxcnc-uspace_2.9.0~pre0_amd64.deb

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-18 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 03:19, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > > I have buster installed and > rtai-modules-4.14.148_5.2.3-linuxcnc_amd64.deb > > I built linuxcnc, running the buster rtai kernel, from the git sources. ... > linuxcnc-uspace_2.9.0~pre0_amd64.deb > linuxcnc-uspace-rtai_2.9.0~pre0_amd64.deb

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-18 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 at 20:31, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > linuxcnc has dependency problems. It wants python-vte, Gmoccapy and Gscreen want python-vte, but you should be able to run other GUIs without it. python-vte appears to exist in sid, but not in buster. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-17 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I have buster installed and rtai-modules-4.14.148_5.2.3-linuxcnc_amd64.deb I built linuxcnc, running the buster rtai kernel, from the git sources. dpkg-checkbuilddeps found most of the needed packages. It missed 5, bwidgit, libtk-img, tclx, python-gtk2, and python-yapps. After build-in-place,

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-17 Thread Thomas D. Dean
Upgrading to buster was successful. I got the RTAI kernel installed. linuxcnc has dependency problems. It wants python-vte, which wants libvte-common=1:0.28.2-5. libvte-common=1:0.28.2-6 is on the repo's. If I install libvte-common=1:0.28.2-5, it breaks other things... Trying to fix this

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-17 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 at 16:03, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > 4. Install the deb's > cd ~/RTAI > sudo dpkg -i *.deb > > The part I am most unsure about is the dpkg command. Does that look > reasonable? I think I would do the install one at a time, (kernel then RTAI then LinuxCNC then docs) apt-get

[Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-17 Thread Thomas D. Dean
Changing from the 'Latency Warning Messages', thread, I plan to test upgrading stretch to buster rtai. The steps are: 1. Fetch the RTAI deb's into ~/RTAI: cd ~/RTAI wget http://www.linuxcnc.org/temp/linux-headers-4.14.148-rtai-amd64.deb wget