On 14/01/12 18:57, Kent A. Reed wrote:
> Bob:
>
> Maybe I'm misreading this but you seem to be saying that the parallel
> port works fine with EMC2 ("ptest.hal & ptest.xml work fine").
>
> If that is so, then the problem lies in your (new) configuration. You
> can nail this diagnosis by loading Halscope and looking at the signals
> you are sending to the parport. If they do toggle as you run G-Code then
> I don't understand what's going on. If they don't, you have some
> detective work to do in your hal and ini files.
>
> There's some but not a lot of latency data on AMD systems on the Wiki,
> but what there is suggests you'll get good performance with yours (which
> I suppose is based on an Athlon 64 something or other). I hope you'll
> post your results to the Wiki.
>
> Good hunting.
>
> Regards,
> Kent
Thanks Kent,
it's where I had arrived at, too. I wanted to be sure that the kernel
module saga wasn't giving me some hidden grief, but I'm sure that's not
the case now.
Thank you very much for the info regarding AMD PCs, I did a quick
latency check and it was very good until I started browsing, using
Firefox. But then I don't have a network connection on my cnc PC
(deliberately - at least when it's connected to the machine) and
therefore won't use it.
Need to spend some time with my better half now, as it's evening here
and she is on duty (Vet) the whole weekend 24hours (got an awful
slave-driver of a boss - herself). So I'll do the halscope thing tomorrow.
Many thanks for the help and interest,
Bob
--
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