On Friday 22 February 2019 09:08:32 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 22 February 2019 00:58:16 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 22 February 2019 00:04:10 Rafael Skodlar wrote: > > > On 2/21/19 6:27 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 20 February 2019 17:00:19 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >> On Wednesday 20 February 2019 16:37:06 Przemek Klosowski wrote: > > > > > > > > Started another terminal, logged into it now I can copy/paste > > > > gene@shop:~$ linuxcnc -l > > > > LINUXCNC - 2.8.0-pre1-4590-g584314c > > > > Machine configuration directory > > > > is '/home/gene/linuxcnc/configs/6040-5i25-7i76' > > > > Machine configuration file is '6040-5i25-7i76.ini' > > > > Starting LinuxCNC... > > > > . > > > > Found file(REL): ./6040-5i25-7i76.hal > > > > ./6040-5i25-7i76.hal:107: parameter or pin > > > > 'stepgen.0.position-scale' not found > > > > Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC... > > > > line 107 of that hal: > > > > setp stepgen.0.position-scale [JOINT_0]SCALE > > > > > > > > It exists in the ini file. > > > > > > > > So something is fubar. memtest86 won't run from grub, claims low > > > > memory is too small, crashes and reboots to grub in 4 secs or > > > > so. dmesg looks pretty normal. Except no hint of the 7i76's > > > > presence can be detected. > > > > > > BIOS may have an option to test the memory. It checks certain > > > addresses to make sure memory is there in the first place. > > I'll see if I can find that option in the bios and turn it on. The > quick boot option I believe skips that, and TBT I had forgotten about > it. > > Thanks. > > In the meantime, since I'm going to transplant the existing bob to p2 > on the 5i25, and build it into the new interface box alongside the > 7i76, I'll see if I have to make standoffs for that and maybe get it > moved today. That should give me enough i/o AND the ability to run the > spindle, if I ever get a response out of the 7i76. sseriel isn't > starting from the clues I'm getting. dmesg is reporting those 4 pins > as gpio. > The sseriel problem went away when I moved jumper 7i76 jumper w1 back to the left. Now, if I'm getting its logic power from the 12 volt Field Power, what am I powering with the 5 volts I've fed the terminals immediately left of the field power input?
And editing the .ini and .hal files is slowly getting rid of the can't find stuff msgs quoted above. The bios doesn't appear to have a scan memory function, at least not that I can find. memtest86 still has me scratching my head. If its so badly broken, then how in hell is it running lcnc without a hiccup while I go thru the copies of the original .ini and .hal files, fixing the syntax errors that changing the hardware its running on makes? Heck of a good question that. With some luck and a bigger supply of giddyup I might even have it rigged to drive some of the machine good enough to carve its own back panel by the time the new memory gets here late Monday. Thanks for reading my mental meanderings everybody. But I suspect the reason for lack of replies is that I have this unique ability to find problems no one else has seen before... So if you can't be good, be good at it! Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
