On 06/01/2014 07:33 AM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: > I guess that should work. I really don't know about basic GUIs but is it > possible for the keystick gui to run in the command line enviroment? > The original keystick was totally command-line, using ncurses, I think, for screen updates. You need to check, I doubt that many people use keystick, so I have no idea how well it works.
You could also look at the Mini interface, which uses a much less CPU intensive graphical screen, and I know Mini still works. It is used by the Sherline configs. Also, there is the Touchy interface, which has no 3-D by default, but is pretty hard to use without a touch screen, and also needs a couple buttons and a manual encoder. But, given those features, it is a VERY nice interface. Also, you can just turn off the 3D preview by clicking on the DRO tab in Axis. When Axis starts, click DRO first thing, and it hides the 3D. If you use the mesa open-gl software rendering interface, it really isn't too bad, and will be no problem with the 3D hidden. Unless you are using a hardware step or servo interface, you need a decent CPU anyway to handle the software step generation task, which can be a lot more CPU intensive than the graphics. I ran on a 7xx MHz Pentium III computer for a long time, with mesa rendering. I think that may have been Ubuntu 6.06. Originally I had 128 MB of memory, and had to temporarily up the memory to do the install. Later, another computer was retired, and I upped the memory to 256 MB permanently. I just replaced that machine a couple weeks ago to allow me to use the camview feature to see a spindle centering camera on the Axis screen. So, now I'm running 10.04 and LinuxCNC 2.5. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. www.restlet.com/download http://p.sf.net/sfu/restlet _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
