Sounds like you have something misconfigured with your homing. I use a touchscreen, and never type on the keyboard unless I want to do 'administration'.
Authentication? I don't have any of these problems. Turn it on, select the G code, and hit start. On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:14 AM, charles green <xxzzb...@yahoo.com> wrote: > ive been through five dozen installs of live cds from ubu 6 to ten > and the result is > 'cant do mdi command without home" with the preceeding action being > successful home. at this point the enhanced machine controller is less > successful than the crummy accumotion software that i started out with ten > years ago on win98 with a driver based on the stepper H bridge and and two > parport controls through a 7400 series nand or some thing to make step one > and step two. the complexity of g code mostly is in interpolating arcs > because then trig is involved in the intermediate movement between the start > coordinate and the end coordinate. damn. and eveything requires a > password. can you imagine implimenting such stuff on a drill press? ..g81 > z-2. Authentication: ? > > --- On Mon, 8/8/11, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > > > From: Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] dedication > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Monday, August 8, 2011, 3:28 AM > > > charles green wrote: > > has anyone been able to create a pc based machine controller which is > dedicated to the task of machine control? for example, if i were to try to > use a gcode file to mill a part, i would not really be trying to browse the > internet, listen to music files, share videos, or play games. is there such > a piece of os out there anywhere? > > Just uninstall what you don't want? > While a dedicated 'DOS' style OS install would be nice, and on linux is > this > quite practical, you need some of the graphic tools loaded to create user > interfaces, so deciding on a suitable subset of components is the problem. > > There are a few nice USB stick distros that might well be able to run EMC2, > but > to be honest, the LiveCD is quite compact, and if there is no network > cable, > then most of the stuff is disabled anyway? > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// > Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA > The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. > Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. > Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. Register early & save! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA > The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. > Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. > Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. Register early & save! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. Register early & save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
