Eric H. Johnson wrote: > Andy, > > There is a tutorial on building EMC for an SMP kernel here: > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?EMC_With_Custom_Kernel > > Packages are here (which I assume you already found): > http://linuxcnc.org/experimental/hardy/smp/ > > > If you just want to install the EMC smp packages, you only need to do > section 6.3 on. Don't miss the note about adding isolcpus=1 to the kernel > line of menu.lst. > > Bear in mind these are experimental builds. I have found for best results > (NB: all based on my experience with the Atom 330 processor), do a fresh > install of Ubuntu or Xubuntu, but do not install any updates. Then install > the RTAI and EMC packages. Once EMC is running, then apply the updates. > Before the updates are applied you may have some difficulty connecting to > the network. Usually a couple of reboots will get it back, at least long > enough to apply the Linux update. Once the updates are applied, the > networking issues should go away. > > Regards, > Eric > Thats the howto I used. I installed from the livecd updated everything (just trying to get it all working) removed, the emc package. (which took the drivers for all the other mesa stuff with it) then just followed the install order for the other packages, everything worked well. Its now up and running reading a set of linear scales. The 2nd CPU basically sits at 0% use all the time but its doing all the heavy lifting ;->
Other than removing and re-installing the different versions of emc it shouldn't require any changes to your setup? > > > Really? I spent weeks trying to get Ubuntu + RTAI + EMC2 using both cores of > my Dual Xeon machine. In the end I decided to install from the LiveCD and > just not use the second processor. > > Does the latest LiveCD support SMP? It is not a huge task for me to > reinstall from scratch after backing up the machine configs, the machine > isn't used for anyhthing else but EMC. > > If it is anything more technical than a liveCD install then I probably can't > be bothered at this point. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
