Re: View / test *-ttf fonts

2024-05-25 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 5/25/24 07:22, Todd Gruhn wrote: Is there a way to view the *-ttf fonts? So I know what it will look like ... xfd Tom Dean

Re: RPi 4b Wifi Device

2024-04-23 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 4/23/24 08:54, Justin Parrott wrote: this is what i was talking about, i don't like booting an sbc from stick even if you can hit disk can net run on sbc? I can boot NetBSD 10 on an RPi 4b from an SD card . It seems to run fine. Seems lots faster than RPi OS booted from the same type SD

Re: RPi 4b Wifi Device

2024-04-23 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 4/20/24 15:29, Michael Cheponis wrote: > I run an RPi 4B/8G with external USB SSD drive; I do this because my uSD cards were getting worn out after about a year of use; I've had no such problems with my Samsung 870 EVO nor Samsung SSD T7. > > I use the built-in GigE adaptor on the RPi 4B,

NetBSD RPi 4b Install/Boot Failure

2024-04-20 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I am using a SanDisk Extreme Pro 128GiB flash drive connected to the RPi 4b USB-3 port. I can use this with the RPi OS. I tried downloading Generic 64-bit from http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/arm/, marked as for the Raspberry Pi. I unzipped the file to get the .img. > ls -l

Re: need your advice before new Raspberry Pi purchase

2024-04-20 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 4/20/24 17:24, Michael wrote: The 3GB limit is on by default for some old linux kernels that don't have the DMA workaround. It takes about 10 seconds to get into the UEFI setup menu and turn it off. What is the UEFI setup menu? How do I get in to it? I used dd to write arm64.img to the USB

Re: RPi 4b Wifi Device

2024-04-20 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 4/20/24 15:29, Michael Cheponis wrote: I run an RPi 4B/8G with external USB SSD drive; I do this because my uSD cards were getting worn out after about a year of use; I've had no such problems with my Samsung 870 EVO nor Samsung SSD T7. I use the built-in GigE adaptor on the RPi 4B,

Re: RPi 4b Wifi Device

2024-04-20 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 4/20/24 13:16, Michael van Elst wrote: tomd...@wavecable.com ("Thomas D. Dean") writes: # wpa_cli status Selected interface 'bwfm0' 21:58:44.815: bssid=60:38:e0:db:a9:7a freq=0 ssid=tddhome id=0 mode=station pairwise_cipher=TKIP group_cipher=TKIP key_mgmt=WPA-PSK wpa_state=GROUP

Re: RPi 4b Wifi Device

2024-04-20 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I have Authentication timeout. # wpa_cli > scan_results 23:27:43.451: bssid / frequency / signal level / flags / ssid60:38:e0:db:a9:7a 2462 227 [WPA-PSK-TKIP][ESS] tddhome ... 23:27:47.736: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS 23:27:47.736: Trying to associate with 60:38:e0:db:a9:7a (SSID='tddhome'

Re: RPi 4b Wifi Device

2024-04-20 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 4/19/24 18:35, Michael van Elst wrote: tomd...@wavecable.com ("Thomas D. Dean") writes: How do I setup wpa_supplicant? That depends on what you want to do. Here are some examples: https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_use_wpa_supplicant/ I saw that. dhcp is working over

Re: RPi 4b Wifi Device

2024-04-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 4/19/24 09:40, Michael van Elst wrote: Reason is that the platform is canonically named "raspberrypi,4-model-b" but UEFI chose "Raspberry Pi 4 Model B" instead. > pwd /home/tomdean/NetBSD > ls -l total 2154 -rw-rw-r-- 1 tomdean tomdean 272510976 Apr 18 09:40 NetBSD-10.0-evbarm-aarch64.iso

Re: RPi 4b Wifi Device

2024-04-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 4/18/24 22:00, Michael van Elst wrote: tomd...@wavecable.com ("Thomas D. Dean") writes: What is the wifi device in the RPi 4b? Driver? It's a chip similar to the one in the older RPIs: bwfm0: chip 0x4345 rev 6 bwfm0: Firmware file default:brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin bwfm0

RPi 4b Wifi Device

2024-04-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
What is the wifi device in the RPi 4b? Driver? Tom Dean

Re: Install Failure RPi 4

2024-04-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 4/18/24 13:56, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I followed: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2023/07/19/msg008301.html and it boots. download https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/releases/download/v1.35/RPi4_UEFI_Firmware_v1.35.zip > mount mmcblk0p1 /mnt > cd /mnt > unzip ~/RPi4_UEFI_Firmware_

Install Failure RPi 4

2024-04-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I have an RPi 4b using a USB flash drive and RPi OS. I attempted to install NetBSD 10 on an SD card. On the RPi, I downloaded arm64.img.gz and extracted arm64.img. > ls -l arm64.img rw-rw-r-- 1 tomdean tomdean 1582301184 Apr 3 15:02 arm64.img I used dd to copy the image to an SD card. > dd

Broken Link

2024-04-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/ Select NetBSD/evbarm 10.0 INSTALL notes Produces Error 404. Tom Dean

Re: Talk to mouse || ID a mouse

2023-07-14 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 7/14/23 05:37, Todd Gruhn wrote: I found and buy a mouse. ON MOUSE: Logitech 6 keys to touch Name / word on top "DARK FIELD" Name / word op bottom "Anywhere MX" It is wire-less; has a eye (lost this name) on bottom It will not work / talk to X-windows. Any help

Re: Test USB

2022-08-25 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 8/25/22 09:58, Vitaly Shevtsov wrote: I'm not sure what you mean, but kernel reports this in dmesg On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 9:26 PM Todd Gruhn wrote: If I attach anything to a USB port ; how to I ping all USB ports to see if this device is attached ? If I messed up, I had a brain

Re: OT - I have a NUC

2021-10-11 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 10/11/21 3:25 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 2021, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On my NUC, there is a connector between the SATA connector and the SATA power connector. May one ask, do you run NetBSD on your NUC? No, I am running Ubuntu. Long Story... I had FreeBSD on it at one time

Re: OT - I have a NUC

2021-10-11 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 10/11/21 10:10 AM, Rhialto wrote: On Sun 10 Oct 2021 at 17:07:03 -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 2021, Rhialto wrote: ahcisata0 port 0: PHY offline This seems to be the point where things start failing. Am I being told that the two tiny little connectors from the SSD's

Re: OT - I have a NUC

2021-10-10 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 10/10/21 8:01 AM, Martin Husemann wrote: On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 10:36:38AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: It matched in overall appearance things termed "SATA" in some of the youtube videos I watched. Measures 4" x 2.75". It is labeled "Solid State Drive." That should be a SATA 2.5" SSD (the

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-05 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 7/5/21 1:54 PM, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 12:53:39PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: 7TB seems like too much for one partition imho. Consider splitting it into the parts That's silly. It's 2021; 7TB isn't particularly large and there's no value in breaking things into multiple

Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?

2021-06-04 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 6/3/21 11:15 PM, Stella Ashburne wrote: Hi Thomas Thank you for your help and time. I really appreciate it. Sent: Friday, June 04, 2021 at 10:23 AM From: "Thomas D. Dean" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of softwar

Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?

2021-06-03 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 6/3/21 5:15 PM, Stella Ashburne wrote: Hi Greg Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2021 at 9:55 AM From: "Greg Wooledge" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates? I gave some alternatives that will reveal more

Re: [Emc-users] Tool presetter

2020-08-31 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-08-31 10:39, N wrote: Anyone have any experience on where to find a good tool presetter? And/Or edge detector? As tool usually is a rather good conductor and sensor could be made of conductive material most obvious would be simple spring loaded contact meausurement for both. I found

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs WORKS - NOT

2020-02-13 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-13 18:32, Jon Elson wrote: On 02/13/2020 04:53 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I shut down the system last night. I can boot debian 7 (sda) and run linuxcnc from the distro. Everything comes up and seems normal. But, on boot into debian 10 (sdb), it drops into the console login.  I

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs WORKS - NOT

2020-02-13 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I shut down the system last night. I can boot debian 7 (sda) and run linuxcnc from the distro. Everything comes up and seems normal. But, on boot into debian 10 (sdb), it drops into the console login. I can startx, but, the display is background only. I can switch to another console,

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs WORKS

2020-02-12 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-12 13:44, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On 2020-02-12 13:39, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On 2020-02-12 00:03, Robert Murphy wrote: Have you seen this on the forums https://forum.linuxcnc.org/gmoccapy/36942-debian-10-dependencies?start=10#149669 I followed this series of emails. python

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-12 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-12 13:44, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On 2020-02-12 13:39, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On 2020-02-12 00:03, Robert Murphy wrote: Have you seen this on the forums https://forum.linuxcnc.org/gmoccapy/36942-debian-10-dependencies?start=10#149669 These two URL's show Error No such package

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-12 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-12 13:39, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On 2020-02-12 00:03, Robert Murphy wrote: Have you seen this on the forums https://forum.linuxcnc.org/gmoccapy/36942-debian-10-dependencies?start=10#149669 These two URL's show Error No such package. packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/python

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-12 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-12 00:03, Robert Murphy wrote: Have you seen this on the forums https://forum.linuxcnc.org/gmoccapy/36942-debian-10-dependencies?start=10#149669 These two URL's show Error No such package. packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/python-gtksourceview2/download

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-12 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-12 00:03, Robert Murphy wrote: Have you seen this on the forums https://forum.linuxcnc.org/gmoccapy/36942-debian-10-dependencies?start=10#149669 I saw this last night. I plan to try this, today. Thanks, Tom Dean ___ Emc-users

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-11 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-05 01:57, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 at 04:25, Thomas D. Dean wrote: How do I do a clean install of buster rtai and llinuxcnc? Experimental at the moment. But: 1) Install Buster 2) Download the .debs at www.linuxcnc.org/temp 3) Install the Linux-image and Linux-headers

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-09 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-08 20:50, R C wrote: I saw linuxcnc 2.9.x mentioned a few times. where can it be downloaded from? thanks, I was building from sources. Next week, I have time to try it again. Need to repair my computer, first... Tom Dean ___

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-05 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-05 01:57, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 at 04:25, Thomas D. Dean wrote: How do I do a clean install of buster rtai and llinuxcnc? Experimental at the moment. But: 1) Install Buster 2) Download the .debs at www.linuxcnc.org/temp 3) Install the Linux-image and Linux-headers

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-04 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-03 03:34, andy pugh wrote: On Mon, 3 Feb 2020 at 07:07, Thomas D. Dean wrote: The hang was on initial linuxcnc startup. No toolpath was loaded. I can only think of a few possibilities. (I am not saying that there are not many others, I am saying that my imagination is limited

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-04 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-04 07:40, Stuart Stevenson wrote: A number of years ago (circa 2000) I experienced problems with updating to a new version of Linux. This was on SuSe and Redhat. You can never be sure what is broken but you can always be sure something is broken. I always do a clean install now. How

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-02 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-02 17:00, Jon Elson wrote: On 02/02/2020 05:04 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On 2020-02-01 20:46, Jon Elson wrote: On 02/01/2020 08:35 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I have been using linuxcnc 2.9.0~Pre0 from sources, run in place. Until today, it has worked, mostly.  Before today, about

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-02 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-02 22:06, N wrote: Pretty sure I use buster on several machines. You use linuxcnc with buster? Tom Dean ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-02 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-02 17:02, Jon Elson wrote: On 02/02/2020 06:32 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: So the problem started right after you upgraded to the new RTAI kernel? That's where I'd look for a problem first. Ohhh!  I NEVER, EVER, update the kernel on a LinuxCNC system. In fact, I NEVER

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-02 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-01 20:46, Jon Elson wrote: On 02/01/2020 08:35 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I have been using linuxcnc 2.9.0~Pre0 from sources, run in place. Until today, it has worked, mostly.  Before today, about 2x per week it would freeze and I had to cycle power to get it working.  Now

Re: [Emc-users] Wierd perms problem

2020-02-01 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-01 22:09, Gene Heskett wrote: I have a 64G sd card in the reader with a raspbian buster full install on it. I would assume that the first, boot partition is dos or vfat for its filesystem. I have a realtime build of 4.19.100-rt41 that I am trying to write to this cards /boot

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-01 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-01 20:46, Jon Elson wrote: On 02/01/2020 08:35 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I have been using linuxcnc 2.9.0~Pre0 from sources, run in place. Until today, it has worked, mostly.  Before today, about 2x per week it would freeze and I had to cycle power to get it working.  Now

[Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-01 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I have been using linuxcnc 2.9.0~Pre0 from sources, run in place. Until today, it has worked, mostly. Before today, about 2x per week it would freeze and I had to cycle power to get it working. Now, linuxcnc freezes. After fixing a problem with apt database, > sudo apt update > sudo apt

[Emc-users] Actual Feed Rate

2020-01-08 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I am attempting to understand feed, etc. G91 G01 X 0.5000 F6 With feed override set to 50%, do I get an actual feed rate of F3? Tom Dean ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-users] 2.7.15 released!

2020-01-05 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-01-05 18:43, John Dammeyer wrote: My system boots and tells me it's 2.7.14. If I unplug the MESA card from the Ethernet port and connect it to the LAN what steps would I take to upgrade without breaking anything. Is it as simple as sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade I hate to

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2019-12-22 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/20/19 3:59 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 11:57, Thomas D. Dean wrote: The conversion tool failed to convert my old sherline lathe config. Can you attach the zipped-up converted config? (That should contain the original config in an "old" directory) I will t

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2019-12-20 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/20/19 3:59 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 11:57, Thomas D. Dean wrote: The conversion tool failed to convert my old sherline lathe config. Can you attach the zipped-up converted config? (That should contain the original config in an "old" directory) I will t

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2019-12-20 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/20/19 2:43 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 03:34, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I did a 'git pull' and built the 'run in place' version. I modified the SherlineLathe_inch.ini file to have 2 axis and removed the [Y Axis] and [joint_1] sections. I changed the [Z Axis] [joint_2

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure FIXED

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/19/19 5:38 PM, Dewey Garrett wrote: With both the installed and the 'run in place' versions, the home Axis button for the Z axis does nothing. This is a newly reported bug for the axis gui and 'historical' lathe configurations that specified 3 axes (xyz) for a lathe (xz). In earlier

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I did a 'git pull' and built the 'run in place' version. I modified the SherlineLathe_inch.ini file to have 2 axis and removed the [Y Axis] and [joint_1] sections. I changed the [Z Axis] [joint_2] to [Joint_1]. The SherlineLathe_inch.ini uses HALFILE = core_stepper.hal I think I need to

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/19/19 2:38 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I installed linuxcnc from git sources. The mill config seems to work OK with my old 'wheezy' config as converted by linuxcnc_2.9.0~pre0_amd64.  Manual control seems to work. MDI seems to work. The lathe config from 'wheezy' would not work after

[Emc-users] Buster RTAI Lathe HomeAxis Failure

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I installed linuxcnc from git sources. The mill config seems to work OK with my old 'wheezy' config as converted by linuxcnc_2.9.0~pre0_amd64. Manual control seems to work. MDI seems to work. The lathe config from 'wheezy' would not work after conversion by linuxcnc_2.9.0~pre0_amd64. I

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
As noted above, I build .deb from git sources. I installed using the method given by Dewey. Initial install shows the following depends not met: linuxcnc depends on python2.7-glade2 | python-glade2; however: Package python2.7-glade2 is not installed. Package python-glade2 is not installed.

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/19/19 5:34 AM, Dewey Garrett wrote: $ man dpkg ... --force-help Give help about the --force-thing options. ... The command: 'dpkg --force-help' shows how to force an install. $ dpkg --force-help|grep depend [!] dependsTurn all dependency problems into

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/19/19 5:34 AM, Dewey Garrett wrote: $ man dpkg ... --force-help Give help about the --force-thing options. ... The command: 'dpkg --force-help' shows how to force an install. $ dpkg --force-help|grep depend [!] dependsTurn all dependency problems into

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/18/19 9:35 PM, bari wrote: "Gmoccapy and Gscreen want python-vte, but you should be able to run other GUIs without it." On 12/18/19 11:26 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: Now, if the problem with python-vte can be fixed, I can install linuxcnc. Again, I can run the 'run in plac

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
Most of my computers are multi-user, although that is becoming more difficult. I have one install for an application for all users. Since the package creation/installation is broken, I decided to go back to one computer, one person philosophy. I cleaned the build tree, configured, and built

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I built linuxcnc from git sources. Build was OK. Install was not. The problem is still python-vte and mismatched version of libvte-common. Tom Dean Here is what I did. Building linuxcnc in debial 10 from linuxcnc/tmp:

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/18/19 2:43 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 10:18, Thomas D. Dean wrote: --with-realtime=uspace Build for any realtime platform, or for non-realtime. The resulting LinuxCNC executables will run on both a Linux kernel with Preempt-RT patches (providing realtime

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/18/19 1:14 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 03:19, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I have buster installed and rtai-modules-4.14.148_5.2.3-linuxcnc_amd64.deb I built linuxcnc, running the buster rtai kernel, from the git sources. ... linuxcnc-uspace_2.9.0~pre0_amd64.deb linuxcnc

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-17 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I have buster installed and rtai-modules-4.14.148_5.2.3-linuxcnc_amd64.deb I built linuxcnc, running the buster rtai kernel, from the git sources. dpkg-checkbuilddeps found most of the needed packages. It missed 5, bwidgit, libtk-img, tclx, python-gtk2, and python-yapps. After build-in-place,

Re: [Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-17 Thread Thomas D. Dean
Upgrading to buster was successful. I got the RTAI kernel installed. linuxcnc has dependency problems. It wants python-vte, which wants libvte-common=1:0.28.2-5. libvte-common=1:0.28.2-6 is on the repo's. If I install libvte-common=1:0.28.2-5, it breaks other things... Trying to fix this

[Emc-users] Buster RTAI

2019-12-17 Thread Thomas D. Dean
Changing from the 'Latency Warning Messages', thread, I plan to test upgrading stretch to buster rtai. The steps are: 1. Fetch the RTAI deb's into ~/RTAI: cd ~/RTAI wget http://www.linuxcnc.org/temp/linux-headers-4.14.148-rtai-amd64.deb wget

[Emc-users] Latency Warning Messages

2019-12-15 Thread Thomas D. Dean
My CNC computer was purchased several years ago from Sherline with CNC installed. I have two disk drives. One has linuxcnc-2.7.14-wheezy.iso and the other has linuxcnc-stretch-uspace-amd64.iso. On both OS's, I see 'unexpected latency warning messages', infrequent on 'wheezy' and 99% of the

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc versions

2019-12-15 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/15/19 11:53 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 at 19:39, R C 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

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc versions

2019-12-14 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 12/14/19 5:10 PM, R C wrote: Hello all, I am new to  linuxcnc (and getting started again).  I have a Sherline style mill and lathe, but never used linuxcnc (last time I used the machines was a long time ago. I installed linuxcnc based on Debian 9.5, reson was that the older/other

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.7.14 Axis Problem with File

2019-11-25 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 11/25/19 4:38 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 05:17, Thomas D. Dean wrote: What does AXIS do when a file is opened, but, not run? Axis runs the program in simulation to create the preview plot. If the code contains an endless loop, then Axis takes an infinite time to create

[Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.7.14 Axis Problem with File

2019-11-24 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I have a problem with a specific file when loaded into LinuxCNC Axis GUI. I created the file on one comnputer and copied it to the one with CNC. The original file had an error. I fixed it on the other computer, but, did not copy it to the CNC computer. DUH! The file causes LinuxCNC Axis to

Re: [Emc-users] Axes Names, Backlash and Overshoot

2019-11-10 Thread Thomas D. Dean
2019 21:44:20 Thomas D. Dean wrote: I measured several rotations of the Z-axis lead screw on my Sherline 4400 CNC lathe. The BACKLASH setting is 0.0035 Thats bordering on looking to see if it can be tightened up. Start by checking the screws end play. I've added reynolds wrap between the o

Re: [Emc-users] Axes Names, Backlash and Overshoot

2019-11-09 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I measured several rotations of the Z-axis lead screw on my Sherline 4400 CNC lathe. The BACKLASH setting is 0.0035 I started with a move in the + direction that was at least 2x the backlash clearing I saw earlier. > G90 and then a sequence of 35 > G1 Z +0.0050 F6 reading the digital dial

Re: [Emc-users] Axes Names, Backlash and Overshoot

2019-11-08 Thread Thomas D. Dean
. Graham Dunn Inc. 630 Henry Street Dalton, Ohio 44618 Phone:  (330)828-2105ext. 2031 -Original Message- From: Thomas D. Dean Sent: Friday, November 08, 2019 12:30 AM To: Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] Axes Names, Backlash and Overshoot I have a Sherline CNC Lathe

Re: [Emc-users] Axes Names, Backlash and Overshoot

2019-11-08 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 11/8/19 4:13 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 05:53, Thomas D. Dean wrote: The config file has a strange entry: AXES = 3 COORDINATES = X Z Should there be names for 3 axes? Not with a lathe. This apparent oddity is no longer required in 2.8. I am using LinuxCNC 2.7.14

[Emc-users] Axes Names, Backlash and Overshoot

2019-11-07 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I have a Sherline CNC Lathe with the computer system from Sherline. The disk drive failed. I replaced the disk and installed LinuxCNC 2.7.14. The install completed without error - great job. I have a problem with backlash and overshoot. The config file has a strange entry: AXES = 3

Re: hp 3762

2019-10-12 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 10/12/19 8:34 AM, steef wrote: Hi folks, my pixma 280 canonprinter gave it up after years, so I need another. Is HPDeskjet 3762 a good (simple) replacement? Is somebody out there who has some experience with HP-printers?? Thank you and a good day to you all, Steef groningen, holland

Re: Suspicious post [was: Problème d'installation]

2019-09-03 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 9/3/19 1:55 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 09:18:43AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 11:50:12PM +0200, Siard wrote: [...] Suspicious post, nevertheless. Strange e-mail address, strange name, and... the .tar.xz file appears to contain an

Re: [avr-chat] Bricked AVR

2018-03-25 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 03/25/18 12:05, Kimson Muriungi wrote: Hi guys, I have a custom mega 2560 avr control board that I just got bricked by setting the wrong fuses accidentally. It is surface mount, so i cannot use fuse bit doctor or high voltage programming to reset it. Sadly I also didnt include JTAG in my

Re: [avr-gcc-list] RFC: Speeding up small ISRs: PR20296

2017-06-20 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 06/19/2017 10:48 PM, Erik Christiansen wrote: On 15.06.17 14:43, Georg-Johann Lay wrote: https://gcc.gnu.org/PR20296 is about speeding up "small" ISRs, and is open for 12 years now... Anyone familiar with avr-gcc knows that a fix would be high effort and risk, and that's the major reason

Re: [sage-support] Re: How Do I do this with Sets

2016-11-20 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 11/20/2016 01:33 AM, Dominique Laurain wrote: How do I get a solution similar to the one for flushes? I guess you don't hope for the exact same solution, for exercice "hand of four" than for "flush" :-) If your question "How do I get" means "How I can code " and is related to the

Re: [avr-gcc-list] gcc-avr 4.9.2 -Os messes with interrupt vectors

2016-05-08 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/08/16 06:22, a...@tuta.io wrote: Looks like you are toggling the LED too fast to see it. Try adding a delay in the while loop while (1) { PORTB |= (1 << PB5); delay_ms(500); /* or something */ } Look at the avr-libc documentation. http://nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/ Tom Dean

Re: [avr-gcc-list] Programming ATMega2560

2014-11-26 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 11/26/14 11:46, Andreas Höschler wrote: #define F_CPU 1600UL /* 16 MHz CPU clock */ #include util/delay.h #define OUTPUTPORT PORTB #define OUTPUTPIN PB7 int main (void) { DDRB = 0xff; // all outputs while (1) /* loop forever */ { if

Re: [avr-gcc-list] Programming ATMega2560

2014-11-26 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 11/26/14 14:25, Andreas Höschler wrote: #define F_CPU 1600UL /* 16 MHz CPU clock */ #include avr/io.h #include util/delay.h #define OUTPUTPORT PORTB #define OUTPUTPIN PB7 int main (void) { DDRB = 0xff; // all outputs while (1) /* loop forever */

Bug#761300: libc6: Printf(%c,'x') does not follow stdio

2014-09-12 Thread Thomas D. Dean
Package: libc6 Version: 2.13-38+rpi2+deb7u3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Redirecting stdout in C code does not work for printf(%c,'x') I ssh into the system. I want to redirect all output to stdout to the local terminal. This works as expected for

Bug#761300: libc6: Printf(%c,'x') does not follow stdio

2014-09-12 Thread Thomas D. Dean
Package: libc6 Version: 2.13-38+rpi2+deb7u3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Redirecting stdout in C code does not work for printf(%c,'x') I ssh into the system. I want to redirect all output to stdout to the local terminal. This works as expected for

[avr-gcc-list] ATMega128 Fast PWM

2014-08-26 Thread Thomas D. Dean
How do I change the polarity of the PWM output, WGM mode 5, OCR1A on the fly? I use WGM mode 5 to provide PWM to drive gearhead motors. I update the OCR values every 50 msec. The algorithm makes changes gradually. If, for example, the motor is CCW at 50%, the OCR value is 128. The

Re: [avr-gcc-list] ATMega128 Fast PWM

2014-08-26 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 08/26/14 11:31, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I found a sort-of solution. I still have a 1 usec glitch at the end of the positive group of cycles but not at the inverted group of cycles. The manual says the change of COM bits is effected at the next compare match. On the logic analyzer

[avr-gcc-list] C++ Syntax Question

2014-07-07 Thread Thomas D. Dean
Sorry, if this is off topic. I have an application where I want to call a group of functions, in turn. My initial thought was to use function pointers and a list. If the function is defined outside the class, I can add it to the list. f1 in the example. If the function is declared in the

Re: Can't install Debian - USB keyboard doesn't turn on until Windows loads

2014-06-28 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 06/27/14 22:11, Kitty Cat wrote: Yes. I have previously searched and found such things like this: Bios may access the keyboard without turning on any leds. Look at http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000192.htm Turn on power to the computer. As soon as you do this, start pressing the

Re: Can't install Debian - USB keyboard doesn't turn on until Windows loads

2014-06-28 Thread Thomas D. Dean
When you try to access BIOS from thekeyboard, make sure the keyboard is connected directly to the computer, not through a hub. Tom Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Can't install Debian - USB keyboard doesn't turn on until Windows loads

2014-06-28 Thread Thomas D. Dean
There is sometimes a very short window to access the BIOS. On my (different) system, as soon as I power up, I start tapping the F2 key, about 2 times per second. After several seconds, I get into BIOS. There may be some exact moment to press F2 one time, but, I have not found it. I can

Re: USB 3.0 support

2014-06-27 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 06/27/14 14:47, Gary Dale wrote: This may not be revelant, but, I had a problem with USB 3.0 devices under Ubuntu. I traced that to a linux USB bug. I think I still see artifacts of USB problems in both Ubuntu and Debian. [Bug 1151622] Re: 050d:0237 [ASUS P9X79 PRO] The usb driver

Re: The USB Driver Appears to be Looping

2013-08-11 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 08/11/13 15:41, Greg KH wrote: I tried linux 3.2.0-40, 3.2.0-5, 3.9.0-7, and, 3.10.5-031005. The problem started back in 3.2.0-39. Here is a git bisect log # bad: [ba89d2a7ca8233e29c9fdeabefb7fdbb6775626e] UBUNTU: Ubuntu-3.2.0-39.62 # good: [1420ada1a002d99e49d68d60a72f29ba58376b90]

Re: [avr-gcc-list] How to use pgmspace.h in a library source without warning?

2013-06-07 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 06/07/13 09:53, Georg-Johann Lay wrote: Suppose the following include in a library source.c: #include avr/pgmspace.h and the source compiled with, e.g. -mmcu=avr5 or -mmcu=avr35 etc. This throws a warning like: $ avr-gcc -mmcu=avr5 source.c -c In file included from

Re: [avr-chat] MEGA vs XMEGA core differences?

2013-04-28 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 04/28/13 00:29, Rick Mann wrote: Moreover, is per-thread PMIC state the right thing to do? It seems to me that interrupts are independent of threads, and so the state should be identical after each handler returns, regardless of whether or not a new thread is executing afterward, right?

Re: [avr-chat] Urgent clock-related questions

2013-04-08 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 04/07/13 21:45, Rick Mann wrote: So, I just found out that I designed my board with a 32.768 kHz crystal connected to the XTAL pins, rather than the TOSC pins. The problem is that to move it, I lose my only available SPI port (this is an ATxmega256A3U, and all the other SPI port pins are

Re: [avr-chat] Problem with USB 3.0

2013-03-07 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 03/06/13 23:45, Thomas D. Dean wrote: uname -a Linux P9X79 3.2.0-38-generic #61-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 19 12:18:21 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I submitted a bug to launchpad, 1151622 Tom Dean ___ AVR-chat mailing list AVR-chat

[avr-chat] Problem with USB 3.0

2013-03-06 Thread Thomas D. Dean
uname -a Linux P9X79 3.2.0-38-generic #61-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 19 12:18:21 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux lsb_release -a LSB Version:

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline

2013-03-04 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 03/04/13 10:12, Doug wrote: On 03/04/2013 11:59 AM, Chris Davies wrote: Thomas D. Dean tomd...@speakeasy.org wrote: The ANSI standard lists ESC[4m as the code to produce an underline export TERM=ansi80x25 printf \033[4masdfasdfasdf produces green text, not underline text as stated

ESC[4m does not produce underline

2013-03-01 Thread Thomas D. Dean
The ANSI standard lists ESC[4m as the code to produce an underline export TERM=ansi80x25 printf \033[4masdfasdfasdf produces green text, not underline text as stated in the standard. If I put the same in c code, it works #include stdio.h int main() { fputs(\033[4masdfasdf,stdout); return 0;

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline OOPS

2013-03-01 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 03/01/13 11:35, Thomas D. Dean wrote: The ANSI standard lists ESC[4m as the code to produce an underline export TERM=ansi80x25 printf \033[4masdfasdfasdf produces green text, not underline text as stated in the standard. If I put the same in c code, it works #include stdio.h int main

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline OOPS

2013-03-01 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 03/01/13 16:56, Glenn English wrote: The linux console is a HDMI display attached to a RaspberryPi. I changed to ncurses5. Looks like the display does not support underline. Thanks, Tom Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

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