Re: [Emc-users] emc chess pawn part program

[Rondal Nannie]

Mark  I  just noticed the  NRL Navy at the end of you address. I served 10 
years Navy as a Machinery repairman (machinist). GO NAVY.  Thanks Again    MR2  
Nannie
 
 --- On Thu, 9/3/09, Mark Wendt (Contractor)  wrote:


From: Mark Wendt (Contractor) 
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] emc chess pawn part program
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 
Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 9:23 AM


Rondal,

         Wouldn't hurt to have at least 512 MB memory, but memory is 
so cheap these days, you might as well get a 1 GB chip.

Mark

At 08:05 PM 9/2/2009, you wrote:
>I new it was time for that gravity check. I new it was slow but 
>didnt know that slow. I will go out and get a faster machine. You 
>say at least 1 gb processor? Can you think of  Anything else that I 
>would need?  Thanks for the help.   Ron
>
>--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Jake Anderson  wrote:
>
>
>From: Jake Anderson 
>Subject: Re: [Emc-users] emc chess pawn part program
>To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 
>Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 5:11 PM
>
>
>On 03/09/09 02:10, Jon Elson wrote:
> > Rondal Nannie wrote:
> >
> >> Gene  I ran a test and it is running at 380.4MHz.  (The Compaq 
> 5185 only supports up to 348MB of Ram)   It seems slow. It wanted 
> to update EMC with 406 updates and now  that is updated. It 
> probably needs a gravity check off the side of the table...? Thanks 
> for the help  Ron
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > If you are using software step generation, this is completely out the
> > window.
> > You could run a servo system with a controller board badly with a 380 MHz
> > CPU, but even that is going to be very sluggish, due to the demands Axis
> > creates
> > by doing the preview screen.  If you turn off the Axis preview screen (I
> > don't
> > know how, but I think there is a key to switch to big numbers for the
> > coordinates)
> > or use TkEMC or Mini as the GUI, you will help somewhat.
> >
> > But, if using software generated steps (stepgen) then it is nearly
> > hopelsss to use
> > such a slow computer.  The amount of memory is not a problem, I run most of
> > my systems with 256 MB.
> >
> > Jon
> >
>I have found better machines on the side of the road in council cleanups.
>Odds are they may need some TLC but swapping hdd's over will cure most ills.


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Re: [Emc-users] emc chess pawn part program

[Rondal Nannie]

Mark
     I bought a HP with630 INTEL PENTIUM 4 Processor, 2 GB PC2-3200 DDR2 SDRAM 
MEMORY,250 GB HARD DRIVE-. This should do ther trick for awhile.  
Thanks for the help. I will try to get some help on getting the Config files 
out of the old computer and  into the new one over the weekend . I was told to 
do this but I couldnt find the config files?  I opened the ubuntu but couldnt 
locate the config files. I need alot of help. I am just a machinist, not a 
computer wizard as you all can probably see by now.  Thanks again  Ron    
  
.-- On Thu, 9/3/09, Mark Wendt (Contractor)  wrote:


From: Mark Wendt (Contractor) 
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] emc chess pawn part program
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 
Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 9:23 AM


Rondal,

         Wouldn't hurt to have at least 512 MB memory, but memory is 
so cheap these days, you might as well get a 1 GB chip.

Mark

At 08:05 PM 9/2/2009, you wrote:
>I new it was time for that gravity check. I new it was slow but 
>didnt know that slow. I will go out and get a faster machine. You 
>say at least 1 gb processor? Can you think of  Anything else that I 
>would need?  Thanks for the help.   Ron
>
>--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Jake Anderson  wrote:
>
>
>From: Jake Anderson 
>Subject: Re: [Emc-users] emc chess pawn part program
>To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 
>Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 5:11 PM
>
>
>On 03/09/09 02:10, Jon Elson wrote:
> > Rondal Nannie wrote:
> >
> >> Gene  I ran a test and it is running at 380.4MHz.  (The Compaq 
> 5185 only supports up to 348MB of Ram)   It seems slow. It wanted 
> to update EMC with 406 updates and now  that is updated. It 
> probably needs a gravity check off the side of the table...? Thanks 
> for the help  Ron
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > If you are using software step generation, this is completely out the
> > window.
> > You could run a servo system with a controller board badly with a 380 MHz
> > CPU, but even that is going to be very sluggish, due to the demands Axis
> > creates
> > by doing the preview screen.  If you turn off the Axis preview screen (I
> > don't
> > know how, but I think there is a key to switch to big numbers for the
> > coordinates)
> > or use TkEMC or Mini as the GUI, you will help somewhat.
> >
> > But, if using software generated steps (stepgen) then it is nearly
> > hopelsss to use
> > such a slow computer.  The amount of memory is not a problem, I run most of
> > my systems with 256 MB.
> >
> > Jon
> >
>I have found better machines on the side of the road in council cleanups.
>Odds are they may need some TLC but swapping hdd's over will cure most ills.


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Re: [Emc-users] Using M64, M65 and M66

[Eric H. Johnson]

John,

I believe this is the current user's manual:
http://linuxcnc.org/docs/EMC2_User_Manual.pdf

Page 120, at the top says:
M62, M63 not implemented
M62 and M63 are not currently implemented, but may be added to a future
release of EMC2.

Back about page 97, it does describe how M62 and M63 should work. So perhaps
the reference on page 120 just never got deleted.

Regards,
Eric


Is that an older users manual your refering to that states the  M62 and M63
are not implemented? I don't see that in your link to current documents. 

Thanks for catching that the P word was not described fully.



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Re: [Emc-users] Using M64, M65 and M66

[John Thornton]

Eric,

Is that an older users manual your refering to that states the  M62 and M63 are 
not 
implemented? I don't see that in your link to current documents. 

Thanks for catching that the P word was not described fully.

John

On 3 Sep 2009 at 10:13, Eric H. Johnson wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> The documentation here:
> http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/gcode_main.html#sec:M62-to-M65:
> 
> Describes the use of M62-65 (really only M64 and M65, the user's
> manual
> states that M62 and M63 are not implemented) as follows:
> 
> 
> To control a digital output bit, program M- P-, where the M-word
> ranges from
> 62 to 65, and the P-word ranges from 0 to a default value of 3 in
> EMC2. If
> needed the value can be increased by using the num_dio parameter
> when
> loading the motion controller.
> 
> 
> I may have missed a bull fiddle in a telephone booth, but I have so
> far not
> found a description of how the P-Word value is mapped to a specific
> HAL
> output, or in the case of M66, a HAL input. Any pointers would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Eric
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [Emc-users] Sites to help understand Linux

[Stephen Wille Padnos]

H & J Johnson wrote:

>I'm a new user when it comes to Linux and am interested in moving from Mach3. 
>However not being a programer of any depth, I'm a little leary of taking a 
>working machine and trying to convert it to linux and possibly ending up w/ a 
>machine that isn't working.
>
There's no need to be a programmer to set up a Linux/EMC2 PC.  You 
should read as much documentation as you can stand before doing it, to 
reduce the duration that the machine is unusable.

> My main reason for moving to Linux is to install a 5 axis [Spindle mounted to 
> a B/C axis] system on my router. Because of my encoder count numbers, my 
> machine would be best served by some form of an independant Motion board 
> [Mesa or some other]. 
>  
>
Note that the Mesa boards, and indeed all boards that are supported by 
EMC2, are not motion control boards.  They're I/O interfaces of some 
kind, which can do things faster and better than a PC CPU.  What I mean 
by this is that the Mesa cards can output step/dir or analog (PWM) 
commands to a motor drive (or whatever you want to connect them to), the 
Motenc cards output analog, both have encoder inputs.  These cards do 
not do anything other than taking the high speed counting and PWM/step 
tasks away from the PC - the software running on the PC is still 
controlling all motion, using closed-loop control (in the case of servos).

>To start w/, does anyone have some good links to help a new user better 
>understand the Linux language [writing a HAL file & compiling etc] that a 
>person could read to increase knowledge etc. 
>
There is extensive HAL documentation on the linuxcnc.org website, both 
in PDF and HTML form:


You don't need to know anything about compiling unless you want to write 
your own software.  It's unlikely that you will need to do that, though 
it's possible, if we don't have a kinematics module that can be directly 
applied to your machine setup.  That's mostly a math problem though, as 
there's a very nice tool called "comp" which will compile and optionally 
install any custom code you write.  Comp should also be documented at 
the link above.

>I'd be interested in buying books even, but rather than just pointing and 
>shooting, thought I'd as which would be recommended first.
>
>Btw does DSCMP/IP now have an interface to enable connection to EMC2?
>
No, there is no ethernet support in EMC2 yet.  I'm assuming you're 
talking about DSCP, the quality of service protocol.

> Is there a general concensis as to which of the add-on motion control modules 
> is the best option for EMC while using step & Dir for servo control? I'm 
> currently using Granite Devices servo cards and would prefer to stay w/ them 
> if possible.
>  
>
It appears that all the Granite Devices servo drives accept step/dir, 
and that some also accept analog velocity control.  For step/dir, there 
are several supported hardware interfaces (Mesa, Pico Systems, parallel 
port).  If you want to use analog as well (either for servos or spindle 
control), then you can add a couple of others to that list - like 
Motenc.  If you want to mix and match, then Mesa is probably your best 
bet, since it supports both analog and step/dir simultaneously with the 
same hardware (which the parallel port also does, albeit much slower).

- Steve

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Re: [Emc-users] OT: how to interface a quadrature encoder w/o EMC2

[Rafael Skodlar]

Andrea Montefusco wrote:
> First of all I apologize for this off topic question.
> I have an quadrature encoder
> to use it as main tune control in a software defined radio.
> 
>http://www.montefusco.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=knob
> 
> to use it as main tune control in a software defined radio.
> I would like to interface it (on Linux Ubuntu) via a parallel
> port but without install the EMC2 software.
> (I know EMC2 because I have a little stepper mill controlled
> with EMC2).
> Any suggestion ?
> 
http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/parallel_output.html#circuithow
might be a good start.

> Thanks in advance for your time
> 
>*am*
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[Emc-users] OT: how to interface a quadrature encoder w/o EMC2

[Andrea Montefusco]

First of all I apologize for this off topic question.
I have an quadrature encoder
to use it as main tune control in a software defined radio.

   http://www.montefusco.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=knob

to use it as main tune control in a software defined radio.
I would like to interface it (on Linux Ubuntu) via a parallel
port but without install the EMC2 software.
(I know EMC2 because I have a little stepper mill controlled
with EMC2).
Any suggestion ?

Thanks in advance for your time

   *am*

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tel: +393356992791 fax: +390623318709
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[Emc-users] Sites to help understand Linux

[H & J Johnson]

I'm a new user when it comes to Linux and am interested in moving from Mach3. 
However not being a programer of any depth, I'm a little leary of taking a 
working machine and trying to convert it to linux and possibly ending up w/ a 
machine that isn't working. My main reason for moving to Linux is to install a 
5 axis [Spindle mounted to a B/C axis] system on my router. Because of my 
encoder count numbers, my machine would be best served by some form of an 
independant Motion board [Mesa or some other]. 

To start w/, does anyone have some good links to help a new user better 
understand the Linux language [writing a HAL file & compiling etc] that a 
person could read to increase knowledge etc. I'd be interested in buying books 
even, but rather than just pointing and shooting, thought I'd as which would be 
recommended first.

Btw does DSCMP/IP now have an interface to enable connection to EMC2? Is there 
a general concensis as to which of the add-on motion control modules is the 
best option for EMC while using step & Dir for servo control? I'm currently 
using Granite Devices servo cards and would prefer to stay w/ them if possible.

Thanks in advance...

J. Johnson


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Re: [Emc-users] (RTAI?) error on initial attempt to tickle 5i20

[Sebastian Kuzminsky]

Peter C. Wallace wrote:
> Snip
>> Debug file information:
>> hm2-servo.hal:46: parameter or pin 'hm2_5i20.0.pwmgen.pwm_frequency' not 
>> found
>>
> 
> ^^
> This probably means the firmware did not load for some reason...

Peter is right.  Also, there's this the dmesg you helpfully included:

> [ 1013.394259] hm2: loading Mesa HostMot2 driver version 0.15
> [ 1013.403985] hm2_pci: loading Mesa AnyIO HostMot2 driver version 0.6
> [ 1013.954991] hm2_pci: driver unloaded
> [ 1013.963593] hm2: unloading

The first line is the hostmot2 driver loading and the second line is the 
hm2_pci driver loading.  The hm2_pci driver did not see any boards it 
recognized.  Then half a second later emc2 has errored out (the 
"pwm_frequency not found" error above) and everything gets unloaded.

What does "lspci -vvnn" say?


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Re: [Emc-users] Using M64, M65 and M66

[Eric H. Johnson]

Max,

Thanks. I was looking in the wrong place. Seems so obvious now. :)

Regards,
Eric


please have a look at the motion.digital-out-XX pins in hal and the num_dio
parameter to the "loadrt motmod" line if the default number of 4 dio pins is
not enough.

I think the num_dio parameter is a fairly recent feature enhancement, so you
should run a 2.3.something version to use it.

http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/man/man9/motion.9.html



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Re: [Emc-users] (RTAI?) error on initial attempt to tickle 5i20

[acemi list]

To solve 'rtapi: no version for "nano2count" found' problem:

* add the Module.symvers output of RTAI into the kernel's Module.symvers file
* add a link to RTAI modules directory in kernel's module directory
* depmod -a
* compile EMC2


For my system, these are as followings:

cp /usr/src/linux/Module.symvers /usr/src/linux/Module.symvers.backup
cat /usr/realtime/modules/Module.symvers >> /usr/src/linux/Module.symvers
cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`
ln -s /usr/realtime/modules rtai
depmod -a

Then compile EMC2

On 9/3/09, Dave Engvall  wrote:
>
> On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> 
> Hi Erik,
> I'm told the hal pin is a side effect of the following error.
>
> I googled "nano2count" and got hits but nothing that looked useful.
> Your search ability is probably better than mine.
>
> HTH
>
>> [ 1013.165352] rtapi: no version for "nano2count" found: kernel
>> tainted.
>
>
> Dave
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Re: [Emc-users] Using M64, M65 and M66

[Maximilian H]

Hello Eric,

please have a look at the motion.digital-out-XX pins in hal and the
num_dio parameter to the "loadrt motmod" line if the default number of 4
dio pins is not enough.

I think the num_dio parameter is a fairly recent feature enhancement, so
you should run a 2.3.something version to use it.

http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/man/man9/motion.9.html

BR
Max.




> Hi all,
> 
> The documentation here:
> http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/gcode_main.html#sec:M62-to-M65:
> 
> Describes the use of M62-65 (really only M64 and M65, the user's manual
> states that M62 and M63 are not implemented) as follows:
> 
> 
> To control a digital output bit, program M- P-, where the M-word ranges from
> 62 to 65, and the P-word ranges from 0 to a default value of 3 in EMC2. If
> needed the value can be increased by using the num_dio parameter when
> loading the motion controller.
> 
> 
> I may have missed a bull fiddle in a telephone booth, but I have so far not
> found a description of how the P-Word value is mapped to a specific HAL
> output, or in the case of M66, a HAL input. Any pointers would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Eric
> 
> 
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Re: [Emc-users] (RTAI?) error on initial attempt to tickle 5i20

[Dave Engvall]

On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:

Hi Erik,
I'm told the hal pin is a side effect of the following error.

I googled "nano2count" and got hits but nothing that looked useful.
Your search ability is probably better than mine.

HTH

> [ 1013.165352] rtapi: no version for "nano2count" found: kernel  
> tainted.


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[Emc-users] Using M64, M65 and M66

[Eric H. Johnson]

Hi all,

The documentation here:
http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/gcode_main.html#sec:M62-to-M65:

Describes the use of M62-65 (really only M64 and M65, the user's manual
states that M62 and M63 are not implemented) as follows:


To control a digital output bit, program M- P-, where the M-word ranges from
62 to 65, and the P-word ranges from 0 to a default value of 3 in EMC2. If
needed the value can be increased by using the num_dio parameter when
loading the motion controller.


I may have missed a bull fiddle in a telephone booth, but I have so far not
found a description of how the P-Word value is mapped to a specific HAL
output, or in the case of M66, a HAL input. Any pointers would be
appreciated.

Regards,
Eric



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Re: [Emc-users] (RTAI?) error on initial attempt to tickle 5i20

[Peter C. Wallace]

Snip
>
> Debug file information:
> hm2-servo.hal:46: parameter or pin 'hm2_5i20.0.pwmgen.pwm_frequency' not found
>

^^
This probably means the firmware did not load for some reason...

Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics

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[Emc-users] (RTAI?) error on initial attempt to tickle 5i20

[Erik Christiansen]

I'm running ubuntu-8.04-desktop-emc2-aj12-i386.iso on a Jetway
7F2WE1G5S-OC-LF (listed on the wiki), which unsurprisingly passes the
latency test: Servo thread jitter: 8904 ns ; Base thread jitter: 8435
ns, with 4 x glxgears running, and moving stuff about.

So I plugged in my shiny new 5i20, and powered up. However, on starting
Applications->CNC->EMC2, selecting hm2-servo/5i20, there appears to be a
bit of a crash. I have not yet learnt enough to deduce what I'm doing
wrong. Here's the full output, as prompted by the error dialog "EMC2
Errors", in the hope that something will leap out:

Print file information:
RUN_IN_PLACE=no
EMC2_DIR=
EMC2_BIN_DIR=/usr/bin
EMC2_TCL_DIR=/usr/share/emc/tcl
EMC2_SCRIPT_DIR=
EMC2_RTLIB_DIR=/usr/realtime-2.6.24-16-rtai/modules/emc2
EMC2_CONFIG_DIR=
EMC2_LANG_DIR=/usr/share/emc/tcl/msgs
INIVAR=inivar
HALCMD=halcmd
EMC2_EMCSH=emcsh
EMC2_IOSH=iosh
EMC2 - 2.3.0
Machine configuration directory is '/home/erik/emc2/configs/hm2-servo'
Machine configuration file is '5i20.ini'
INIFILE=/home/erik/emc2/configs/hm2-servo/5i20.ini
PARAMETER_FILE=hm2-servo.var
EMCMOT=motmod
EMCIO=io
TASK=milltask
HALUI=
DISPLAY=axis
NML_FILE=emc.nml
Starting EMC2...
Starting EMC2 server program: emcsvr
Loading Real Time OS, RTAPI, and HAL_LIB modules
Starting EMC2 IO program: io
Shutting down and cleaning up EMC2...
Killing task emcsvr, PID=5550
Removing HAL_LIB, RTAPI, and Real Time OS modules
Removing NML shared memory segments
Cleanup done

Kernel message information:
[0.00] Linux version 2.6.24-16-rtai (r...@hardy) (gcc version 4.2.3 
(Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 Tue Sep 30 22:54:33 EEST 2008 (Ubuntu 
2.6.24-12.22-generic)
[0.00] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[0.00]  BIOS-e820:  - 0009f800 (usable)
[0.00]  BIOS-e820: 0009f800 - 000a (reserved)
[0.00]  BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved)
[0.00]  BIOS-e820: 0010 - 3bee (usable)
[0.00]  BIOS-e820: 3bee - 3bee3000 (ACPI NVS)
[0.00]  BIOS-e820: 3bee3000 - 3bef (ACPI data)
[0.00]  BIOS-e820: 3bef - 3bf0 (reserved)
[0.00]  BIOS-e820: fec0 - fec01000 (reserved)
[0.00]  BIOS-e820: fee0 - fee01000 (reserved)
[0.00]  BIOS-e820:  - 0001 (reserved)
[0.00] 62MB HIGHMEM available.
[0.00] 896MB LOWMEM available.
[0.00] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 245472) 0 entries of 256 used
[0.00] Zone PFN ranges:
[0.00]   DMA 0 -> 4096
[0.00]   Normal   4096 ->   229376
[0.00]   HighMem229376 ->   245472
[0.00] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[0.00] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[0.00] 0:0 ->   245472
[0.00] On node 0 totalpages: 245472
[0.00]   DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[0.00]   DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[0.00]   DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[0.00]   Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
[0.00]   Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
[0.00]   HighMem zone: 125 pages used for memmap
[0.00]   HighMem zone: 15971 pages, LIFO batch:3
[0.00]   Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[0.00] DMI 2.3 present.
[0.00] Allocating PCI resources starting at 4000 (gap: 
3bf0:c2d0)
[0.00] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total 
pages: 243555
[0.00] Kernel command line: 
root=UUID=91441b58-8851-44cd-abe2-fc69490b2f24 ro quiet splash
[0.00] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[0.00] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[0.00] Initializing CPU#0
[0.00] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
[0.00] Detected 1500.039 MHz processor.
[   18.820509] I-pipe 2.0-04: pipeline enabled.
[   18.821913] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[   18.821921] console [tty0] enabled
[   18.822746] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[   18.824032] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[   18.878112] Memory: 963248k/981888k available (1440k kernel code, 18020k 
reserved, 573k data, 228k init, 64384k highmem)
[   18.878134] virtual kernel memory layout:
[   18.878137] fixmap  : 0xfffed000 - 0xf000   (  72 kB)
[   18.878141] pkmap   : 0xff80 - 0xffc0   (4096 kB)
[   18.878144] vmalloc : 0xf880 - 0xff7fe000   ( 111 MB)
[   18.878148] lowmem  : 0xc000 - 0xf800   ( 896 MB)
[   18.878152]   .init : 0xc02fa000 - 0xc0333000   ( 228 kB)
[   18.878155]   .data : 0xc026836d - 0xc02f77ec   ( 573 kB)
[   18.878159]   .text : 0xc010 - 0xc026836d   (1440 kB)
[   18.878167] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor 
mode... Ok.
[   18.878

Re: [Emc-users] emc chess pawn part program

[Mark Wendt (Contractor)]

Rondal,

 Wouldn't hurt to have at least 512 MB memory, but memory is 
so cheap these days, you might as well get a 1 GB chip.

Mark

At 08:05 PM 9/2/2009, you wrote:
>I new it was time for that gravity check. I new it was slow but 
>didnt know that slow. I will go out and get a faster machine. You 
>say at least 1 gb processor? Can you think of  Anything else that I 
>would need?  Thanks for the help.   Ron
>
>--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Jake Anderson  wrote:
>
>
>From: Jake Anderson 
>Subject: Re: [Emc-users] emc chess pawn part program
>To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" 
>Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 5:11 PM
>
>
>On 03/09/09 02:10, Jon Elson wrote:
> > Rondal Nannie wrote:
> >
> >> Gene  I ran a test and it is running at 380.4MHz.  (The Compaq 
> 5185 only supports up to 348MB of Ram)   It seems slow. It wanted 
> to update EMC with 406 updates and now  that is updated. It 
> probably needs a gravity check off the side of the table...? Thanks 
> for the help  Ron
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > If you are using software step generation, this is completely out the
> > window.
> > You could run a servo system with a controller board badly with a 380 MHz
> > CPU, but even that is going to be very sluggish, due to the demands Axis
> > creates
> > by doing the preview screen.  If you turn off the Axis preview screen (I
> > don't
> > know how, but I think there is a key to switch to big numbers for the
> > coordinates)
> > or use TkEMC or Mini as the GUI, you will help somewhat.
> >
> > But, if using software generated steps (stepgen) then it is nearly
> > hopelsss to use
> > such a slow computer.  The amount of memory is not a problem, I run most of
> > my systems with 256 MB.
> >
> > Jon
> >
>I have found better machines on the side of the road in council cleanups.
>Odds are they may need some TLC but swapping hdd's over will cure most ills.


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