On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:06:09 -0400, you wrote: >On Monday 11 August 2008, Steve Blackmore wrote: >>On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:09:33 -0600, you wrote: >>>What do you expect the EMC volunteers to do to encourage new users? >> >>A fully working distro would be a good start :) >> >>I downloaded the latest live CD, it booted fine, however on loading EMC >>sim/lathe it froze the PC, only way out was the reset button. >> >>Sim axis works, but that's not what I'm looking for. > >Um, an editing session for that particular .ini file might be in order. Start >by adding another 0 to the BASE_THREAD period setting, too small a value >there will freeze the machine if the machine isn't fast enough. Actually >there are three PERIOD settings, add a zero to all 3. It may be slow, but >shouldn't freeze then.
Bit of problem there Gene, it's the Live CD version, so can't edit the file. I don't want to risk writing configuration files over a working Windows/Mach3 machine which I was testing on. The PC is 3.2GHz AMD with 2Gb of RAM so really shouldn't be slow. Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
