Re: [Machinekit] Re: Cheapest way to get +/-10V signal from x86 computer with encoder input

2017-03-21 Thread Chris Albertson
He is talking about a +/- 10 volt SIGNAL not a +/- 10 volt power supply. His servo amp converts this analog signal to velocity. The signal works so if it is 0V the motor stops, +5V it runs forward at 1/2 speed and -5V is backwards at 1/2 speed and so on. The suggested I offered was to use a

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Problems with installing xhc-hb04 in my Machinekit BBB cnc project

2017-03-21 Thread Simon Mali
I have upgraded the OS with apt-get as you said. When I test proposed sequence I get the following output: root@beaglebone:/home/machinekit# realtime restart /usr/libexec/linuxcnc/rtapi_msgd: FATAL - will not run as root rtapi_msgd startup failed - aborting rtapi_app startup failed - aborting

Re: [Machinekit] BeagleBone Family MachineKit image

2017-03-21 Thread alexander . roessler
I'm working on getting the Replicape to work with the Jessie Machinekit images. Here are my findings so far: I had to replace the Xenomai kernel with the RT-PREEMPT kernel. I think some configuration for the Xenomai kernel might be missing. However, I think the RT-PREEMPT kernel should work

Re: [Machinekit] Cape overlay and boot with the CRAMPS board

2017-03-21 Thread Jonathan Cohen
I purchased the board from Pico Systems (http://pico-systems.com/). I assumed that the eeprom had been programmed. I do not believe that I have been loading an overlay unless it was actually in one of the build which seems to have been a bad assumption. Do you believe that could be causing

Re: [Machinekit] Cape overlay and boot with the CRAMPS board

2017-03-21 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/20/2017 11:41 AM, Jonathan Cohen wrote: > Is there a specific overlay for using the CRAMPS board and HDMI that should > be installed or called that is not part of the machinekit build that RCN > puts out ? One nagging thing on my mind is some of the "error" codes that > come up during the

Re: [Machinekit] time vs timev2

2017-03-21 Thread schoone...@btinternet.com
Please check the last 15 or so posts in [Machinekit] Machinekit not starting: seems to be attempting to start incorrect rtapi app Re: [Machinekit] Re: Problems with installing xhc-hb04 in my Machinekit BBB cnc project There was a problem, which was fixed

Re: [Machinekit] time vs timev2

2017-03-21 Thread frank
Thanks for the fix, but pulling your fix and the others on master seems to have made things worse. Now I'm getting lots of Segmentation Faults during the make setuid phase... (gdb) bt #0 0xb6e2dba4 in strlen () from /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6 #1 0x00011458 in default_flavor () at

Re: [Machinekit] Machinekit not starting: seems to be attempting to start incorrect rtapi app

2017-03-21 Thread schoone...@btinternet.com
Yes, there was another update after that. Thanks for confirming On 21/03/2017 05:14, Brian Schousek wrote: A new build must have happened after you posted this: 0.1.1490033988 fixes my real time problem. Now I just need to get the parallel port configured properly. Brian Package: