When you start up LinxuCNC you can click on an ICON that takes you to the folder that has the .ini and .hal files. I have 2 icons on the desktop, one for the parallel port version and one for the MESA 7i92H.
For the last little while the MESA card has been sitting on the side and the PC parallel port cable goes to my BoB. I can then dual boot into either LinuxCNC or WIN-XP/MACH3. I'm holding off on a permanent solution until I get the spindle mounted. I can do simple PWM to 10V analog with the single parallel port and the 7i92H can do that as can MACH3. But while I can easily change those two pins, PWM and DIR, to be STEP and DIR under MACH3 there is no configuration file for the MESA that swaps a step generator into the pins allocated for PWM. Hence the reason the MESA is sitting on the side. The port P1 pins for the step generator on the MESA aren't available on my PMDX-126 BoB because the PMDX allocates those for their custom and proprietary expansion boards. So if I want STEP/DIR with the MESA I have to build or add a second BoB that can interface to the spindle motor step/dir inputs. With MACH3 I can use either a Smooth Stepper or the parallel port and in both cases set the one pin to be PWM or STEP. The Direction pin can remain unchanged. Anyway your .hal and .ini files will define your environment. You get to choose which hardware pins, within the limitation of the hardware, do what. So there's no reason you can't have your lathe and your mill wired up to the same MESA I/O interface. You just can't run them at the same time. And given how long some milling projects take I'm not sure I'd want to have my lathe disabled because milling project will take 2 hours. I'll bet in no time at all you'd duplicate the hardware you have and have the two machines run independently. What you can do is add a switch that shares, keyboard, mouse and display between two PCs. John Dammeyer > -----Original Message----- > From: R C [mailto:cjv...@gmail.com] > Sent: December-15-19 6:11 PM > To: linuxcnc-users-list > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc versions > > I don't know if it is ok to post a screenshot here, but this is what I > get to see in Debian (see attached). > > > Also, in linuxcnc, can I use two different parallel ports and hook a > mill up to one and a lathe to the orher and use > > either one in linuxcnc (or does that mean I need to configurations,� one > for each specific parallel port?) > > > thanks, > > > Ron > > > > > > On 12/15/19 3:50 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > > On 12/15/19 11:53 AM, andy pugh wrote: > >> On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 at 19:39, R C <cjv...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> That was� a couple of weeks ago, mayb even 2 months. > >>> > >> > >> The Wheezy ISO was updated to reference the archive repository on the > >> 24th > >> of May. It sounds like your download was comfortably after that. > >> > >> So that seems to indicate that the repository fix did not work. Which is > >> odd, as (and others) tested it. > >> > > > > I downloaded� and installed ten days ago.� The install went without > > hitch. > > > > > ls -l *.iso > > -rw-r--r-- 1 tomdean tomdean 1212776448 Oct 28 19:44 > > linuxcnc-2.7.14-wheezy.iso > > > sha256sum *.iso > > 079ba1fae48861b0814187b8048d6f2f299f943427d8c4806b65519f3a560d48 > > linuxcnc-2.7.14-wheezy.iso > > > > Tom Dean > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
