Re: [Emc-users] source code link request

2012-01-13 Thread s...@highlab.com 
Oh!  Try "git checkout ".

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Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 10:56
Subject: [Emc-users] source code link request
To: , "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 


On ven, 2012-01-13 at 10:29 -0700, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> On 01/13/2012 10:20 AM, Spiderdab wrote:
> > Some suggestions? ..maybe i'm doing something really stupid..
> > Thanks, Davide.
> 
> I think you'll be much happier if you use git, like Peter originally 
> suggested.  There's instructions on the wiki:
> 
> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Installing_EMC2#Getting_the_source_with_git
> 
mmm i'm sorry if i cannot explain so much in english, and been
misunderstood.
I know how to use git to download all the source, i needed only one
file, and trying to find out the goodest way.
i'll read how to on git manual, thanks.

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Re: [Emc-users] Open letter to the EMC Board of Directors

2012-01-25 Thread s...@highlab.com 
I am not a board member or anything official, I'm just some guy who hacks on 
linuxcnc sometimes.  I speak for myself.

I've been following this thread since the start, and there is a disconnect 
between what people are asking for and how i think this project works.

People are saying thing like:

"What's the road map of features for future releases?"

"What features should/shouldn't I work on?"

"Who holds the Treasurer position?"

"How do you assign tasks to developers?"

These kinds of questions make no sense in my mental model of the project.

This is not a company and I am not an employee, so nobody gets to tell me what 
to do.  I'm a volunteer and I do this because I like our community, and 
machining, and programming.  I'm doing this for fun, in my spare time that I 
could be doing other fun things of my own choosing.

If someone wants to make a roadmap, or a list of features they want, or a 5 
year plan of what they think everyone should work on, that's fine by me - but 
it doesnt really affect me, and it doesnt change what I'll do tonight after i 
tuck my kids into bed.

I have a list of things *I* want to do to the linuxcnc project, but I'd never 
dream of telling anyone to work on them.  It's not my place to tell folks what 
to do.

I do not publicise my todo list because I'm afraid that doing so might make 
people impatient for the tasks to be finished, and the pressure of that public 
expectation would diminish my enjoyment of doing the work.  I have enough 
schedule and pressure in my day job and other parts of my life, I dont need any 
more!  That's not what I'm here for!


I have never read the "Board of Directors Terms of Service", and until people 
in this thread started talking about  it I didnt realize we had one.  I will 
not go read it now, because I don't care.  To me, this project works well, and 
legalese bores me.


I run my part of our infrastructure on my dime because I happen to have the 
equipment and skills and interest to do it, and i think it makes our shared 
project better.  I have no interest in trying to untangle the expense of it 
from the rest of my household expenses and requesting a reimbursement from a 
project treasurer.  I dont know if we even *have* a treasurer, and if we do i 
dont want to spend my open-source hacking hour talking about bills.  I'd rather 
just hack.


That's  where I'm coming from.


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From: "Sven Wesley" 
Date: Wed, Jan 25, 2012 05:12
Subject: [Emc-users] Open letter to the EMC Board of Directors
To: , "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 


>
>
> Andy,
>
> Understandable.  The paypal link could be set up so that it could be
> turned on when funds are needed and turned off when the funding is met.
> The treasurer would have to stay on top of that though.
>
> Mark
>
>
This must be the most wide spread discussion in ages at this mailing list,
forums, lists, bills, credits... Doesn't matter, it just shows that even
the silent people can speak (which also is a Chinese saying). :)

If you guys think that the internal forum works well so be it. To me it's
not better at all than (for example) cnczone or the mailing list. One board
all questions, and that makes the mailing list superior. And unfortunately,
there were many broken links to the forum before. Cnczone being commercial?
There's no secret I'm a moderator at the zone. There's no secret a page
with 140 000 members need better servers than "our" page. Of course there
will be banners. Stating that it's a bad idea because the site might go
pay-to-view based - will not happen. Why on Earth would you bite your own
feeder? IF that happens, I'm the first guy to leave the site. We're lucky
that someone supports the LinuxCNC (formerly known as EMC2) community with
CPU and storage. So who will pay it otherwise? A paypal account seems to be
a good idea - at first. How should the board/community handle the scenario
when a "supportive company" transfers $ 100 000 and after a short while
demands to get their requirements sorted out? Who will be responsible for
the book keeping? What should happen if there's more money than needed?
What should happen when there's LESS money than neeeded?..

My first opinion is still not changed, there are too many communication
channels for a small (in a community perspective) project. it seems some of
you are pretty gnarly when it comes to commercial fundings (you're not
using Youtube, are you?..). Then kill the mailing list. That's commercially
based service, even more than the zone.

There's not a single response on Roadmap planning nor black/white listing -
suggestions that _really_ affects the evolution of the software. Not even
from other developers...

Regards,
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Re: [Emc-users] Looking to replace $4000 machine for $400 machine with same results in emc :) yes its a strange title...

2012-03-04 Thread s...@highlab.com 
You might be able to simulate a PCI hot unplug & re-plug when changing 
firmware.  It would need some driver work too.

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Date: Sun, Mar 4, 2012 15:02
Subject: [Emc-users] Looking to replace $4000 machine for $400 machine with 
same results in emc :) yes its a strange title...
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 

On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Viesturs L?cis wrote:

> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 23:33:57 +0200
> From: "[UTF-8] Viesturs L?cis" 
> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
> 
> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 
> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Looking to replace $4000 machine for $400 machine
> with same results in emc :) yes its a strange title...
> 
> 2012/3/4 Bart Libert (EducaSoft) :
>>
>> Where do I find that information then? Or is mesa only provider of
>> these cards and is firmware a whole other story ?
>
> Of course, no. There are packages in LinuxCNC repository that contain
> firmwares of particular card for most frequently used types of
> machines. And 3 axis stepper machine is, probably, most commonly used
> type of machines. So for 7i43 card You can get the firmware easily.
> 5i25 is little different story - You are supposed to tell Mesa, what
> kind of firmware should be loaded and they will do it for You before
> shipping the card. So 5i25 is easier from that point of view, but also
> less flexible.
>
> Viesturs
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There will be a 5I25 configuration utility for Linux fairly soon.

Re-configuring a 5I25 will likely never be as quite as easy as the live 
reconfigurable cards like the 7I43 and 5I2X, as it requires a power cycle 
after the new configuration is written into its flash memory. The advantage is 
that it eliminates a whole interface chip and thus can be much cheaper.

Live configuration of a 5I25 is theoretically possible but fairly icky
requiring the configuration utility to save the BARs, reconfigure the chip
and then restore the BARs to their previous BIOs determined values.

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[Emc-users] Opinions on Leadwell VMC?

2012-05-08 Thread s...@highlab.com 
Has anyone used a Leadwell VMC?  Are they any good?

There's one for sale nearby, cheap because it's got a dead controller...

http://fortcollins.craigslist.org/tls/2952112016.html
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Re: [Emc-users] Opinions on Leadwell VMC?

2012-05-09 Thread s...@highlab.com 
Yeah, i saw your build log on the forum, looks like a nice capable machine at 
the end.  I didnt realize you had two!

Are either of yors a Westlake model?  Do you have the manuals and/or wiring 
diagrams?  This seller has lost his...

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From: "robert" 
Date: Wed, May 9, 2012 06:25
Subject: [Emc-users] Opinions on Leadwell VMC?
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 

hi
we have two leadwells 1985 specs, id def buy a newer one if one came up 
right money. they are good reliable machines never had aproblem with 
ours, getting alittle old so that one might need some TLC like ours did, 
but new balls in screw.. new bearing set on the screw too ,
so just be ready to spend some money if the screws are noisy when moving..

ours also had a meldas M0 , which looks to be whats on that machine.

i kept the old drives and motors,. they are very good drives and motors 
very sharp once tuned up, M0 was a very slow contorl compared to 
emc/linuxcnc driving this machine

check out youtube for videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6p1-h5Rlv4
more if u look on my video list..

build thread on the forum also




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Re: [Emc-users] OT: Cheap VFD

2011-09-24 Thread s...@highlab.com 
I'm using a VFD from Automation Direct and it's working great with the gs2_vfd 
module.  My model # is GS2-23P0, but i expect all the GS2 models share 
interface & firmware & work equally well.

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From: "Dave" 
Date: Sat, Sep 24, 2011 09:03
Subject: [Emc-users] OT: Cheap VFD
To: , "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 


On 9/24/2011 7:38 AM, Peter Homann wrote:
> Hi Kirk,
>
> These VFDs have a few issues. A Few people get them and they don't work at
> all. Some have had components floating around.  That said a lot, and I mean a
> lot of people buy these along with the chinese high speed spindles.
>
> Also their modbus interface is broken. They missinterpreted the spec and so it
> doesn't work. Must have been an issue with their Jinglish. :)
>
> I have one, used it once or twice then bought a Hitachi X200, which has a
> Modbus interface that works.
>
> http://www.driveswarehouse.com/Drives/AC+Drives/Variable+Torque+VFD/X200-037LFU.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter.
>
>
>
> On 24/09/2011 10:45 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote:
>
>> Has anyone used one of these?
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/220772028703#ht_13349wt_1189
>>
>> It seems to have what I need, and is cheaper than a beat to heck used
>> VFD. Am I missing something?
>>
>>  
>

I have not heard of any Modbus problems with the VFDs sold by Automation 
Direct either and they are pretty cheap and they work well.

Dave

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Re: [Emc-users] bug(s) in 2.4.6 using Gantrykins?

2011-09-27 Thread s...@highlab.com 
I think you're setting STEPGEN_MAXACCEL but not using it anywhere, so maybe you 
should just delete it.  ;-)

Or maybe you should listen to Chris Morley and Peter Wallace instead of me, and 
set it to 10% or so above the tp max accel (and set stepgen max vel to a few 
percent above tp max vel).

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Subject: [Emc-users] bug(s) in 2.4.6 using Gantrykins?
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Re: [Emc-users] Zero output from stepgen on 7i43

2011-10-07 Thread s...@highlab.com 
This hardware used to work with a parallel port & software step generation?

Did you base your new config on the hm2-stepper sample config, or something 
else?

Did the watchdog bite?

A regular multimeter may not show anything when you probe a 4000 ns square 
wave.  Do you have an oscilloscope?

Pastebin a dmesg trace of starting emc and jogging.

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From: "Viesturs Lācis" 
Date: Fri, Oct 7, 2011 08:09
Subject: [Emc-users] Zero output from stepgen on 7i43
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 

Hello, gentlemen!

I am stuck with the machine, because it seems that there are no step
and dir pulses coming from 7i43 card. I have 4 stepgens for 4 joints
and I do not see any output from any of them. I am using 7i43 400K
version, SVST-4_12.BIT firmware on EMC 2.4.6

In INI file I have:
[AXIS_0]

TYPE =  LINEAR
MAX_VELOCITY =  150
MAX_ACCELERATION =  200

BACKLASH =  0.000

SCALE = 314.96

MIN_LIMIT = -3.0
MAX_LIMIT = 1000.0

FERROR =0.50
MIN_FERROR =0.10

HOME =  0.000
HOME_OFFSET =   0.0
HOME_SEARCH_VEL =   -5
HOME_LATCH_VEL =1
HOME_USE_INDEX =NO
HOME_IGNORE_LIMITS =NO
HOME_IS_SHARED  1
HOME_SEQUENCE   0
DIRSETUP   =  2000
DIRHOLD=  2000
STEPLEN=  4000
STEPSPACE  =  4000

In HAL file I have:
# X [0] Axis

# axis enable chain
newsig emcmot.00.enable bit
sets emcmot.00.enable FALSE

net emcmot.00.enable <= axis.0.amp-enable-out
net emcmot.00.enable => hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.stepgen.00.enable


# position command and feedback
net emcmot.00.pos-cmd <= axis.0.motor-pos-cmd
net emcmot.00.pos-cmd => hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.stepgen.00.position-cmd

net motor.00.pos-fb <= hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.stepgen.00.position-fb
net motor.00.pos-fb => axis.0.motor-pos-fb


# timing parameters
setp hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.stepgen.00.dirsetup[AXIS_0]DIRSETUP
setp hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.stepgen.00.dirhold [AXIS_0]DIRHOLD

setp hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.stepgen.00.steplen [AXIS_0]STEPLEN
setp hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.stepgen.00.stepspace   [AXIS_0]STEPSPACE

setp hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.stepgen.00.position-scale  [AXIS_0]SCALE

setp hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.stepgen.00.maxvel  170
setp hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.stepgen.00.maxaccel230

setp hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.stepgen.00.step_type   0


I checked these things:
1) stepgens are enabled, at least the enable pins are "true" in HAL Config;
2) stepgen-pos-cmd values are changing, they receive position commands
from joints;

Why I think that there is no output:
1) none of motors moves or shows any kind of activity;
2) with multimeter, when measuring volts, I should see something above
0.00V on step pin and definitely more on dir pin in one of 2
directions - I jogged both directions, nothing happened on any of
stepgen outputs.

Why do I think that problem is in Mesa card:
1) I removed some other LPT breakout board few hours ago, everything
was working with it, I am using existing wiring;
2) I triplechecked, if step and dir leads are soldered to correct pins
on 50-pin header and that it is connected to P3 connector.

What am I missing here?

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Re: [Emc-users] all those who thirst knowledge.

2011-10-11 Thread s...@highlab.com 
Chris taught me to tune emc2 axes with motion provided by gcode.  

Set your following error sloppy enough to let your machine run untuned, but 
tight enough that if it runs away emc will stop it.  Run axis (or your gui of 
choice), run halcmd (for interactively setting pid gains), run halscope (for 
getting a detailed look at pid and joint behavior), and finally run this 
program:

g91  ; incremental motion
o10 while [1]
g0 x1   ; go an inch right
g4 p1  ; pause for a sec
g0 x-1 ; go an inch left
g4 p1  ; pause for a sec
o10 endwhile
m2



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Subject: [Emc-users] all those who thirst knowledge.
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 

On 11 October 2011 07:15, Frank Tkalcevic  wrote:
> I opened the first pdf and it has an article on pid tuning.  It suggests
> applying a square wave command and tuning from that.  How hard is it to
> generate a square wave in emc?  Will this require hal trickery or can it be
> done with GCode?

It depends on where you want to generate the square wave, but you
could use either siggen (or just a 50% pwmgen) or a G-code loop
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Re: [Emc-users] need help with external control of cnc machine

2011-10-20 Thread s...@highlab.com 
Yes, emcrsh will do what you need.  It's not file-based, it's line-based (with 
some setup), but otherwise you're right on.

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Date: Thu, Oct 20, 2011 15:26
Subject: [Emc-users] need help with external control of cnc machine
To: 

hi,

 

i'm new to cnc, and i'm hoping to get some help from the experts here on a
project i am working on.



i am interested in using a simple benchtop cnc-type milling machine for some
automated testing. one key criterion for me is the ability to control the
cnc machine from a 3rd party software (matlab) running on a windows PC. (i'm
grafting this into an existing set of tests)
i don't need very sophisticated control - mostly simple x-y-z position
commands. however, i _must_ be able to issue the commands from software
_outside_ of the GUI that most of these machines seem to come with. (eg.
command line or dll calls for example). after checking a bunch of PC based
solutions, i haven't really found anything that works.

someone from the cnczone message boards suggested using emcrsh to control a
linux box running emc2 to control a cheap cnc router (eg. CNC-6040 or
similar).

can anyone tell me if this setup would work, and if so, how difficult would
it be to set up?

would it potentially be as simple as a set of g-code files (one for each
test), and use telnet on the windows PC to issue an emcrsh to call emc2
instructing it to run each file in turn? can emcrsh be used to simply "run"
emc2 with a specified filename?

 

really appreciate any help y'all can provide -- i'm completely new to cnc,
so there is a big learning curve, and i'm under a lot of time pressure to
get this up and running asap!

thanks in advance for your help!

 

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Re: [Emc-users] need help with external control of cnc machine

2011-10-20 Thread s...@highlab.com 
Lapoe needs emcrsh (the "r" is for "remote", meaning "over the network"), emcsh 
(without the r) won't work.

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From: "Dave" 
Date: Thu, Oct 20, 2011 18:08
Subject: [Emc-users] need help with external control of cnc machine
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 

I'm pretty sure that this has been done before...

Here it is:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg18326.html

You might want to send an email to FlyingElectron and see what he ended 
up with.

Dave

On 10/20/2011 6:41 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Yes, emcrsh will do what you need.  It's not file-based, it's line-based 
> (with some setup), but otherwise you're right on.
>
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> From: "Lapoe Lynn"
> Date: Thu, Oct 20, 2011 15:26
> Subject: [Emc-users] need help with external control of cnc machine
> To:
>
> hi,
>
>
>
> i'm new to cnc, and i'm hoping to get some help from the experts here on a
> project i am working on.
>
>
>
> i am interested in using a simple benchtop cnc-type milling machine for some
> automated testing. one key criterion for me is the ability to control the
> cnc machine from a 3rd party software (matlab) running on a windows PC. (i'm
> grafting this into an existing set of tests)
> i don't need very sophisticated control - mostly simple x-y-z position
> commands. however, i _must_ be able to issue the commands from software
> _outside_ of the GUI that most of these machines seem to come with. (eg.
> command line or dll calls for example). after checking a bunch of PC based
> solutions, i haven't really found anything that works.
>
> someone from the cnczone message boards suggested using emcrsh to control a
> linux box running emc2 to control a cheap cnc router (eg. CNC-6040 or
> similar).
>
> can anyone tell me if this setup would work, and if so, how difficult would
> it be to set up?
>
> would it potentially be as simple as a set of g-code files (one for each
> test), and use telnet on the windows PC to issue an emcrsh to call emc2
> instructing it to run each file in turn? can emcrsh be used to simply "run"
> emc2 with a specified filename?
>
>
>
> really appreciate any help y'all can provide -- i'm completely new to cnc,
> so there is a big learning curve, and i'm under a lot of time pressure to
> get this up and running asap!
>
> thanks in advance for your help!
>
>
>
> -lapoe
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Re: [Emc-users] emcrsh: server part locks up

2011-10-21 Thread s...@highlab.com 
It's weird that the sample config works but switching to emcrsh locks it up.  
Are you sure adding emcrsh was the only change between the working and broken 
configs?

What are you doing in your base thread that 100 microseconds is not enough?

Here's a config based on emcrsh that i'm trying to use for testing, it works 
well on my machines and may be a useful starting point for you:  


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Date: Fri, Oct 21, 2011 00:12
Subject: [Emc-users] emcrsh: server part locks up
To: 

Hi!
I found some troubles using Emcrsh program.
The detailed description is here
http://www.linuxcnc.org/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,20/func,view/catid,38/id,13940/lang,english/
In addition, my Emc software version was initially not latest 2.4.6, but 
version 
packed into liveCD image. I then update it to 2.4.6 but no difference. I can't 
test version 2.4.7, because mentioned in announce 'Debian packages are availble 
from the regular package servers' i can't find anywhere. When i build from 
source, i see Emcrch binary, but don't see Emc main executable (probably due to 
i don't have real-time developement libs). I try to substitute Emcrsh 2.4.7 
binary into existing Emc2 2.4.6 instalation, but still no success.
I also notice that increase Base_period from 10 to 50 mostly solves 
this 
problem (but not completely solves), but software stepgens not work anymore 
with it.
I disable all i found relevant to problem in my BIOS setup (USB, sound, CPU 
features, etc.) but no difference.
Jitter is: 3100 ns when idle, and up to 6700 ns when i abuse computer (glxgears 
etc). (these values taken after i moderately modify BIOS settings). No jitter 
peaks i notice. I have Intel Celeron E14 06FD 2.0GHz CPU and Gigabyte 
GA-G31M-ES2L motherboard. Onboard videocard used.
I use cheap parallel port step drivers. I have 4 axis. My initial setup was 
standard liveCD EMC2 which work out-of-box, and i am able to mill without any 
problem, when not use Emcrsh.
I am very novice in EMC, RTAI and machining at all.

Thank you very much!



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Re: [Emc-users] Got sort of a PITA here

2011-10-23 Thread s...@highlab.com 
To get to the Grub boot menu (so you can boot to memtest86, or change kernel 
command-line arguments), hold down Shift while booting, right as the BIOS loads 
the boot sector from the hard disk.

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From: "gene heskett" 
Date: Sun, Oct 23, 2011 11:58
Subject: [Emc-users] Got sort of a PITA here
To: 

On Sunday, October 23, 2011 01:49:46 PM gene heskett did opine:

> Greetings all;
> 
> My machines box has been very unstable, crashing anytime the ambient is
> under about 65F since I switched its memory 512m of ram for 2G worth of
> the right stuff, ddr1 I think it is.  Signs on as 333 mhz FSB which is
> normal for that mobo.  The old memory did too.
> 
> What is the magic key combo to get rid of the graphics and let me see
> the grub screen so that I can run the memtest86 I know is in the grub
> menu, bearing in mind this keyboard boots with the F-keys disabled?
> 
> I've also tried to boot from your 10.04 LTS install cd, but it goes
> straight to the language selection.
> 
> It will boot and run, probably long enough for me to switch the grub
> default to memtest, is that the way to do this?
> 
> Cheers, Gene

/boot/grub/grub.cfg says not to modify it, that its generated by, among 
other things, from the /etc/default/grub file.  So I took the 'quiet 
splash' out of that file, but it made no diff.  It still boots directly to 
the installed kernel, when post eventually gets done, it is, since I added 
the memory, about 1 minute from powerup to the post's initial ok beep 
before the video signs on.  That seems excessive since it only takes it a 
couple seconds to scan 2G of memory and report it.

>From that I assume there is a new grub install command I need to run, but 
what is it?

And since there is only one kernel version installed, the choice is default 
0 for that kernel, but is memtest86 then the default = 1?

In which case how would I get out of that loop & back to a normal boot?

Thanks guys.

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Re: [Emc-users] pain in the $#%, latency change with 10.04

2011-11-01 Thread s...@highlab.com 
Yes, the buildbot (buildbot.linuxcnc.org) builds all 3 current branches (2.4, 
2.5, and master) for both current platforms (hardy & lucid).

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Date: Tue, Nov 1, 2011 10:20
Subject: [Emc-users] pain in the $#%, latency change with 10.04
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 

On 1 November 2011 16:10, Kirk Wallace  wrote:

> I'd like to start playing with gladeVCP which might need 10.04. Plus the
> Live CD is convenient for installing, and the latest EMC2 comes with the
> latest Ubuntu LTS. I suppose I could install the latest EMC2 on 8.04,
> but I would then have to get creative. Although installing plain 8.04
> and using the EMC2 installation script is pretty easy.

It should be possible to upgrade the 8.04 liveCD to 2.4.7 with the
package manager. Otherwise, you can get 2.5 or Master as precompiled
packages from the buildbot.

I _think_ that the buildbot 2.5 works on the 8.04 LiveCD kernel, but I
haven't actually tried it. (and access to builbot.linuxcnc.org seems
to be blocked from work again)

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Re: [Emc-users] EMC a digital pantograph milling machine?

2011-11-26 Thread s...@highlab.com 
Another option would be to run emc2 with emcrsh, and send the xyz coordinates 
from the digitizer as mdi g1 commands to emcrsh.

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From: "Chris Radek" 
Date: Sat, Nov 26, 2011 10:33
Subject: [Emc-users] EMC a digital pantograph milling machine?
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 06:14:05PM +0100, Florian Rist wrote:
> 
> No, recording is not an option. I want the mill to follow the
> movement of the digitizer instantly, just as the were coupled
> mechanically. 

I'd try using limit3 blocks and pid or stepgen, and none of the rest
of emc.

How you get your data stream into hal is another matter, though.
I'm not sure how you can tackle that.  Can you take all the brains
out of the digitizer and read the encoders?  That would give you
very fast realtime updates.

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Re: [Emc-users] HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC

2011-11-27 Thread s...@highlab.com 
The Heeks project is officially shutting down, and they are suggesting that 
users move to the Freecad project.  Unfortunately, Freecad does not yet have 
any cam support, so you can draw parts but you can't make gcode tool paths yet.

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Date: Sun, Nov 27, 2011 11:16
Subject: [Emc-users] HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC
To: 

Hi, I was looking for the above software. The web
page still exists, but I coudn't find a place from
where to download. Has anybody an idea where it
moved or what it happend?

Actualy I'm looking for a CAM program that is free
or at least afordabel, working and easy to use.

Regards Peter Georgi


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Re: [Emc-users] HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC

2011-11-27 Thread s...@highlab.com 
It was Dan Falck, but i think it was just a proof-of-concept prototype, and it 
has not been merged yet.

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Date: Sun, Nov 27, 2011 13:19
Subject: [Emc-users] HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 

On 27 November 2011 20:12, gene heskett  wrote:

> That sucks.  HeeksCNC might be ported to Freecad?

I think it's already been done. But I can't remember who did it.

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Re: [Emc-users] compilation problem

2011-12-10 Thread s...@highlab.com 
Yann, can you verify the version on dblatex you're using?  I know dblatex 0.3.2 
in Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 fails to build our docs with the same error as you 
report.  (dblatex 0.2.12 in Hardy and Lucid obviously works fine.)

I'm in communication with the dblatex folks, trying to resolve the issue.

If you want to build just the emc package, not the docs, try to edit 
debian/control to remove the packages you dont want, and edit debian/rules to 
not build the docs.

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Date: Sat, Dec 10, 2011 07:18
Subject: [Emc-users] compilation problem
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller" 

hello all

I try to build a sim package on my laptop, running oeniric, and this is 
what I get :

yann@yann-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get source emc2-sim -b

(lot of things)

pdflatex -interaction=batchmode Getting_Started_fr.tex
pdflatex failed
Getting_Started_fr.tex:181: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack 
size=5000].
Getting_Started_fr.tex:181: leading text: 
...\hyperlabel{_problématique_du_matériel}

A possible reason for transformation failure is invalid DocBook
(as reported by xmllint)

a2x: deleting 
/home/yann/emc2-2.5.0~pre2.302.g9e61325/docs/src/Getting_Started_fr.xml
make[1]: *** [../docs/src/Getting_Started_fr.pdf] Erreur 1


so, as EMC build ok, but there is an error building the doc witch I dont 
need, how can I specify to build the package without the doc ?

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Re: [Emc-users] compilation problem

2011-12-11 Thread s...@highlab.com 
That kind of separation is actually pretty awkward with the debian tools.

But try pulling 2.5 and building the docs, i bet it will work now.:-)

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Date: Sun, Dec 11, 2011 01:42
Subject: [Emc-users] compilation problem
To: , "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 




Le 11/12/2011 06:34, Sebastian Kuzminsky a écrit :
> I'm working on a fix for the oneiric/precise doc build problem, i'll 
> push it tonight. 

May be just separating the doc and program packages could help ? At 
least if we can't compile the doc, we could get a working emc package.
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[Emc-users] New build dependency

2011-12-11 Thread s...@highlab.com 
If you don't compile emc yourself, you can ignore this email.

If you *do* compile emc, be ware that i just added a new build dependency!  To 
build the docs, you now need texlive-lang-cyrillic installed.

That is all.
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Re: [Emc-users] Compiling EMC2 on Lucid

2010-06-30 Thread s...@highlab.com 
Eventually the buildbot will make lucid packages...

For now, here's how to create a debian package from your git checkout:

cd to your git checkout (probably $HOME/emc2-dev)
cd debian
./configure -a
cd ..
fakeroot debian/rules binary
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From: "Viesturs Lācis" 
Date: Wed, Jun 30, 2010 14:25
Subject: [Emc-users] Compiling EMC2 on Lucid
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 

YAY! I can report on successful compiling EMC 2.5~pre on Lucid!

2010/6/30 Jeff Epler :
> For a run-in-place build of emc2, you can
>    make install-menus
> to put items in the Applications > CNC menu.
>
> I'm not sure this is documented anywhere; please feel free to improve
> the wiki by mentioning it.
>
> As far as I recall, this capability is new in emc2.4.
>

I did NOT use
--enable-run-in-place

with this command
$ ./configure

So with my non-existing experience in compiling application from
source I expected EMC2 to be now just as if it was installed from deb
package - placed in home/waterjet/emc2 folder and also in
"Applications" menu.

Anyway, I figured out solution - I created a folder of my own config
in /emc2-dev/configs and at EMC startup I created a shortcut on
desktop.

Is there a simple way, how I can create .deb or some other package so
that I can get EMC in a little-bit easier way than recompiling it?
I am asking it, because I am confident that I will have to reinstall
Lucid, before I get my waterjet machine set up properly, including
building a proper controlling PC.

Viesturs

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Re: [Emc-users] emc packages for ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx ?

2010-07-24 Thread s...@highlab.com 
I think the issue is the lucid rtai kernel doesn't boot all the computers it's 
been tried on.  But i dont really know.

It's working fine on the two machines i've
tried.

It's available here:
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Date: Sat, Jul 24, 2010 03:10
Subject: [Emc-users] emc packages for ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx ?
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 

On 24 July 2010 06:48, Sebastian Kuzminsky  wrote:

> We don't have a reliable realtime kernel yet for Lucid.

What is unreliable about the experimental kernel? As in, does it not
work reliably, or does it not reliably work?

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Re: [Emc-users] ENC Servo axis calibration for Lathe config uration Not Working.

2010-07-27 Thread s...@highlab.com 
Another option is to use the latest pre-built 2.4 package from the buildbot, 
which includes all the bugfixes since 2.4.2.

Instructions here:

http://emc2-buildbot.colorado.edu/~buildmaster/

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From: "Jeff Epler" 
Date: Tue, Jul 27, 2010 06:46
Subject: [Emc-users] ENC Servo axis calibration for Lathe configuration Not 
Working.
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 

Unfortunately, a bug was introduced in the calibration program in emc
2.4.2.  Until the next bugfix release of emc2 is made, you have a few
options:

 * if none of the other issues fixed in 2.4.2 is as important to you as
   a working calibration program, downgrade to emc 2.4.1 using the
   synaptic package manager or in the terminal with the command
sudo apt-get install emc2-sim=1:2.4.1

 * if you have the expertise to build emc2 from source, build the
   v2.4_branch which already contains the bugfix.

 * if you're comfortable running shell commands, you can download the
   fixed version of the file onto your system.
   Download

http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=emc2.git;a=blob_plain;f=tcl/bin/emccalib.tcl;hb=refs/heads/v2.4_branch
   as emccalib.tcl.  Open a terminal, 'cd' to the directory where you
   saved emccalib.tcl, then run
   sudo mv emccalib.tcl /usr/share/emc/tcl/bin/emccalib.tcl
   sudo chmod +x /usr/share/emc/tcl/bin/emccalib.tcl
   Because this modifies a system file, you will be prompted for your
   password.   The next time the emc2 package is updated, it will
   overwrite the modified file, but that will be OK since the next
   version will also contain the fix.

Jeff

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Re: [Emc-users] Work Coordinates

2012-06-07 Thread s...@highlab.com 
If you dont mind writing some C code, I think you should extend halui to do it. 
 Read the values you want from the stat buffers and export them to hal pins.  
See how halui reports the axis positions for an example.

These changes should go in the master branch, not in 2.5.

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From: "Brian May" 
Date: Thu, Jun 7, 2012 07:57
Subject: [Emc-users] Work Coordinates
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 

Would it be possible to write my own hal component that read the values from 
the file?

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On Jun 7, 2012, at 3:35 AM, andy pugh  wrote:

> On 6 June 2012 19:29, andy pugh  wrote:
> 
>> O100 IF [#5220 EQ 1]
>> M66 E0 Q#5221
>> M66 E1 Q#5222
>> …
>> O100 ENDIF
>> O101 IF [#5220 EQ 2]
>> M66 E0 Q#5241
> 
> 
> Actually, I think that you can skip the IF statements because numbered
> parameters can be indirected
> 
> M66 E0 Q#[5211 + 10 * #5220] ; 5211 because #5220 is always at least 1
> M66 E1 Q#[5212 + 10 * #5220]
> M66 E2 Q#[5213 + 10 * #5220]
> M66 E3 Q#[5214 + 10 * #5220]
> 
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Re: [Emc-users] ClassicLadder error

2012-10-27 Thread s...@highlab.com 
Can you reproduce it in sim?

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From: "Viesturs Lācis" 
Date: Sat, Oct 27, 2012 17:32
Subject: [Emc-users] ClassicLadder error
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 

Hello!

While working in premises of my customer to add new automatic material
loading/unloading module for one of my machines, I have encountered
strange error in ClassicLadder. I took a video on my phone with it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YjkGbpuT50

I will try to explain:
The idea is to use classicladder to control valves for pneumatics that
load the material in machine, hold it in place and then unload.
When I started working on the ladder logic, everything was working
fine, but then, at one moment, I think at the moment, when I linked
one of classicladder input pins to motion.spindle-on, it just stopped
turning the outputs on and off in a correct manner. Some of outputs
are working fine, but others are doing I do not know what - seems like
turning on for a very small amount of time at random moments.
It is 2.5~pre, installed from buildbot package some time almost a year
ago. I did copy all the config files, so I can share them, if that
helps.
I tried to workaround this with M62/M63 and M64/M65 commands and G4
inbetween them to specify correct time distances between any 2 events,
but that did not work out nicely - I did not notice any difference
after changing almost all P values for G4 command from 0,5 to 3,5.
Restarting system for several times did not help either. I do not
know, how many times did I restart LinuxCNC...

Does anyone has any idea, what went wrong?

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Re: [Emc-users] mesa 5i20 with 7i44 and 7i70

2012-11-26 Thread s...@highlab.com 
I started making a buildbot for hostmot2 firmware about a year ago.  Or was it 
two?  But i didnt finish it.  Maybe i'll put another winter break into it this 
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From: "andy pugh" 
Date: Mon, Nov 26, 2012 01:08
Subject: [Emc-users] mesa 5i20 with 7i44 and 7i70
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On 26 November 2012 02:45, Peter C. Wallace  wrote:

> I think the only solution currently is to use the source from Mesa (in
> 5i20.zip /configs/hostmot2/source/hostmot2.zip)
>
> and build with the webpack GUI

I am not sure what the status is of the LinuxCNC Firmware repository.
It hasn't been updated for a long time, and is getting rather
outdated.

It either needs to be updated, or "officially" abandoned.

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