Since I'm still working on that driver for my DIO96, Is it very difficult to
compile the new driver into emc? I am fairly new at C programming so this is
a learning experience for me.....
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Installing on Hardy Heron
>
> The fact of multiple distributions is one of the best and the worst
> features of Linux. It's good because it tends to keep all of them on
> their toes when it comes to things like quality and ease of install and
> bug fixes and updates. It is bad because each distribution uses
> different versions of some critical packages and different file
> structures that make them totally or nearly incompatible and the
> knowledge of one system worth less when working with another.
>
> I like the Ubuntu release because it is very easy to use and familiar to
> folk accustomed to working with a point-and-click or menu driven os.
> Using an official release saves me from having to make my own real-time
> capable kernel and emc and then debug the whole thing.
>
> For some folk the load of packages supplied and run in the standard
> release is seen as way to heavy for something that we could run in less
> than 10Meg on RedHat 5.0. For these folk there are many choices but the
> best path is not always clear.
>
> IMO we all start someplace and work our own systems to where we want
> them. The least effort starting place is an Ubuntu-emc2 cd.
>
> HTH
>
> Rayh
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 20:17 -0400, Dave Keeton wrote:
>> I've noticed that some of the other users are using other versions of
>> Linux
>> to run EMC. Is Ubuntu better suited to use and would there be a good
>> reason
>> to us another OS?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ray Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
>> <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:33 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Installing on Hardy Heron
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Hi Jaime
>> >
>> > I've been pushing for the release for a couple weeks and they finally
>> > got it ready. I've downloaded it but not tested the final version.
>> > I'm
>> > sure that it should be good.
>> >
>> > Try it first in live boot mode and see how it works. If it seems to be
>> > okay then install it.
>> >
>> > Hope this helps
>> >
>> > Ray
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 00:38 +0200, Jaime Alemany wrote:
>> >> Hi Ray,
>> >>
>> >> and thanks! This all happened today or you managed to make it run with
>> >> the older version? No need to answer just sheer curiosity... felt
>> >> crazy with all the references to Dapper in the linuxcnc.org page until
>> >> I read the message announcing the release.
>> >>
>> >> Will try tomorrow morning, hopefully I'll solve my latency issues
>> >> changing the machine.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks again,
>> >>
>> >> jaime
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Ray Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Jaime
>> >>
>> >> EMC2 version 2.2.5 is running here on a couple machines with
>> >> Hardy. The
>> >> python version on both is 2.5.2. I did install from the
>> >> EMC2-CD
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> http://www.linuxcnc.org/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-emc2-aj07-i386.iso
>> >>
>> >> for the last one but used the install script from linuxcnc.org
>> >> for the
>> >> first.
>> >>
>> >> http://www.linuxcnc.org/hardy/emc2-install.sh
>> >>
>> >> I had to execute the commands in that script line by line
>> >> because it
>> >> didn't want to just run all by itself. It did get past the
>> >> fix of the
>> >> apt sources but then died someplace.
>> >>
>> >> Rayh
>> >>
>> >>
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