On Wednesday 21 October 2020 04:17:19 andy pugh wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 02:39, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Doing some searching, both on mesanet.com and on my 3 wintel > > machines, there is not a linux version of mesaflash I can find thats > > newer than 2014. > > It's now part of LinuxCNC. (https://github.com/LinuxCNC/mesaflash) > > sudo apt-get install mesaflash should get it, if your repositories are > configured correctly. > > What OS are you using at the moment? That machine is still on wheezy.
gene@GO704:~/linuxcnc$ sudo apt-get install mesaflash [sudo] password for gene: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done mesaflash is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 145 not upgraded. Using the tde gui, which is under quite active development, the 145 not upgraded is likely 97% tde stuff. But lets see what gksudo synaptic says. Yup, 142 pieces of tde, and 3 of linuxcnc since I am on master. Yes, all updated now. I found in the newest 5i25.zip, some newer files than what I used back then, and it looks like, from reading the .pin files that what I should install in the 5i25 is 5i25_7i76_7i78.bit, it has the stuff for a 7i76 driving 5i25-p3, which I am, and looks like a stock parport bob could be used on p2 except there is a now a pmwgen.01.enable for the pwmgen.01, and I am assuming that stepgen4 if not in the config, but a pwmgen is, it replaces the stepgen4 pin usage but without the enable. That pin file is dated jan 2014, but the bit file is dated Dec 2018, much newer than whats in that card now. Possible bugfix? Peter hasn't replied yet. So I'll try it. I'm not even useing stepgen3, so thats 2 gpio's on those 2 pins of the 7i76 I can use for other things. And all the stepgen stuff on p2 isn't used so is gpio I should be able to use. Because axis A running as a servo will need the dir+ and dir- the 7i76 gives me, I'll use pwmgen.01 to drive the spindle, and pwmgen.00 to drive axis A. Some minor pin movements in hal but I should be able to make it work on a fresher 5i25. If not, I'll get an even newer 5i25. Thanks Andy. 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
