Re: [Emc-developers] Proposal: Branch stepconf to create a new moreadvanced configuration wizard.

2009-02-05 Thread Chris Morley
> > Maybe you can start a wikipage with these ideas, they surely seem > > interesting. > > More input interleaved. Exploring ideas is always interesting- the more input the better. > > > > I think the main difference is between servo and stepper systems, so that > > should be an initial se

Re: [Emc-developers] Inkscape, biarcs, and G-code!

2009-02-05 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:21:05PM -0700, EBo wrote: > > Ok. Please let me know when it is committed (and where -- if it not in the > emc-trunk), so I can try to contribute. I'd have to put it on a branch because TRUNK is in feature freeze for the 2.3 release. But that's no problem. I do want

Re: [Emc-developers] Inkscape, biarcs, and G-code!

2009-02-05 Thread EBo
Chris Radek said: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 04:42:36PM -0700, EBo wrote: > > > Alex Joni said: > > > > > It hasn't. But I managed to find it online in a form of a patch: > > > http://www.pastebin.ca/640476 > > > > Thanks! BTW, where did you find it online? > > > > OK. I'll see about hackin

Re: [Emc-developers] Proposal: Branch stepconf to create a new moreadvanced configuration wizard.

2009-02-05 Thread acondit
Alex Joni writes: > > Maybe you can start a wikipage with these ideas, they surely seem > interesting. > More input interleaved. > > I think the main difference is between servo and stepper systems, so that > should be an initial setup decision. > Maybe we should only concentrate on servo in

Re: [Emc-developers] Inkscape, biarcs, and G-code!

2009-02-05 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 04:42:36PM -0700, EBo wrote: > Alex Joni said: > > > It hasn't. But I managed to find it online in a form of a patch: > > http://www.pastebin.ca/640476 > > Thanks! BTW, where did you find it online? > > OK. I'll see about hacking it in. Tonight I did the work of ge

Re: [Emc-developers] Error with hm_7i43

2009-02-05 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
> Eric H. Johnson wrote: > >> Sebastian, >> >> The response from ls is: >> ls: cannot access /lib/... : No such file or directory. >> >> What sets that? I installed from cvs, but never ran either emc2-install.sh >> or apt-get install build-dep. What sets it? You do :-P If you configure with --

Re: [Emc-developers] Error with hm_7i43

2009-02-05 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Eric H. Johnson wrote: >Sebastian, > >The response from ls is: >ls: cannot access /lib/... : No such file or directory. > >What sets that? I installed from cvs, but never ran either emc2-install.sh >or apt-get install build-dep. > > The file you're trying to look at doesn't exist. This is the

Re: [Emc-developers] Error with hm_7i43

2009-02-05 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Sebastian, The response from ls is: ls: cannot access /lib/... : No such file or directory. What sets that? I installed from cvs, but never ran either emc2-install.sh or apt-get install build-dep. Regards, Eric Ah hah, that's quite a useful error message. Is /lib/firmware/hm2 a symlink to whe

Re: [Emc-developers] Error with hm_7i43

2009-02-05 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Eric H. Johnson wrote: > Steve, > >>> When do you get the disabled "error"? << > > It is in dmesg after emc shuts down. EMC shuts down with the following > messages: > > insmod: error inserting '/home/emcadmin/emc2/rtlib/hm2_7i43.ko': -1 Unknown > symbol in module. > hostmot2.hal:17: exit value:

Re: [Emc-developers] Inkscape, biarcs, and G-code!

2009-02-05 Thread EBo
Alex Joni said: > > Actually, assuming that the NURBS code has been integrated back into EMC2, > > then you should be able to write a Bezier to NURBS converter and be able > > to > > read any PDF or PS image directly into the NURBS -- since Bezier splines > > is a > > subclass of B-splines. So

Re: [Emc-developers] More on Inkscape, G-codes and biarcs (adaptive ones now).

2009-02-05 Thread Johnny Stenback
Good point, and point taken. The units are assumed to be inches for now, but you're right, I didn't specify in my email, nor do I think it's explicitly specified in the produced g-code. My intent at this point was that the max allowed difference is 0.0005 inches. There's still lots to do here o

Re: [Emc-developers] Error with hm_7i43

2009-02-05 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Steve, >> When do you get the disabled "error"? << It is in dmesg after emc shuts down. EMC shuts down with the following messages: insmod: error inserting '/home/emcadmin/emc2/rtlib/hm2_7i43.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module. hostmot2.hal:17: exit value: 1 hostmot2.hal:17: insmod failed, returne

Re: [Emc-developers] Proposal: Branch stepconf to create a new moreadvanced configuration wizard.

2009-02-05 Thread Alex Joni
Maybe you can start a wikipage with these ideas, they surely seem interesting. More input interleaved. >I propose that we branch stepconf and create a new advancedconf > wizard to ultimately be included in EMC2 releases alongside stepconf. > > Ability to import stepconf and save advance conf > >

Re: [Emc-developers] Hi

2009-02-05 Thread Alex Joni
That was directed at Chris Morley (seems I'm doing all kinds of strange things today). Paul: the email below is accurate in your regard too. My email was in a too harsh/definite tone. I'll try to wait a bit before replying to things I take personally in the future. Regards, Alex - Origin

[Emc-developers] Hi

2009-02-05 Thread Alex Joni
Hi Chris, I hope I didn't offend you in any way by my latest email in reply to paul. I realized afterwards that it was in a too harsh tone, but it certainly wasn't directed to you. (Hope you didn't think otherwise). Regards, Alex --

[Emc-developers] Proposal: Branch stepconf to create a new more advanced configuration wizard.

2009-02-05 Thread Alan Condit
I propose that we branch stepconf and create a new advancedconf wizard to ultimately be included in EMC2 releases alongside stepconf. Ability to import stepconf and save advance conf The new wizard might eventually support things such as: Tabs for configurations using: Step/Dir PWM

Re: [Emc-developers] Inkscape, biarcs, and G-code!

2009-02-05 Thread Alex Joni
> Actually, assuming that the NURBS code has been integrated back into EMC2, > then you should be able to write a Bezier to NURBS converter and be able > to > read any PDF or PS image directly into the NURBS -- since Bezier splines > is a > subclass of B-splines. So, I think this is doable direc

Re: [Emc-developers] Error with hm_7i43

2009-02-05 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Eric H. Johnson wrote: >Sebastian, > >After my last build, with the settings shown below, I got the "parport_pc >00:07: disabled" error. When looking at proc/ioports there is nothing listed >for 0378. > >0376-0376 : :00:lf.1 >03c0-03df : vga+ > > When do you get the disabled "error"? There

Re: [Emc-developers] Error with hm_7i43

2009-02-05 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Sebastian, After my last build, with the settings shown below, I got the "parport_pc 00:07: disabled" error. When looking at proc/ioports there is nothing listed for 0378. 0376-0376 : :00:lf.1 03c0-03df : vga+ I also tried setting all PARPORT values to 'n', but that resulted in the parport_p

Re: [Emc-developers] More on Inkscape, G-codes and biarcs (adaptive ones now).

2009-02-05 Thread Mario.
That's path difference of 0.0005 parts per major dimension, or 0.0005 of some another arbitrary units? Becaus specifying dimensional parameters without any reference to units used yields mixed results. If possible, even if hard-coded, always use some kind of units, please :) we have miles, nautical

Re: [Emc-developers] Error with hm_7i43

2009-02-05 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Eric H. Johnson wrote: > I keep going back and forth between two errors. > > 1> Make sure kernel module 'parport' is unloaded. > 2> parport_pc 00:07: disabled > > Here are my settings for the various references to parport. > > CONFIG_PARPORT=n > CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m > CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL=m > CO

Re: [Emc-developers] Error with hm_7i43

2009-02-05 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Jeff, et all, I keep going back and forth between two errors. 1> Make sure kernel module 'parport' is unloaded. 2> parport_pc 00:07: disabled Here are my settings for the various references to parport. CONFIG_PARPORT=n CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO=y CONFIG_

[Emc-developers] More on Inkscape, G-codes and biarcs (adaptive ones now).

2009-02-05 Thread Johnny Stenback
Hello all, I just uploaded a new version (0.0.2) of the gcode effect extension for inkscape to http://dp.jstenback.com/gcode/. This new version fixes a bunch of random things to make it easier to use (deal with grouped objects, applies the effect to the whole document if nothing is selected, e

[Emc-developers] [ emc-Bugs-2569072 ] hal_input barfs on negative mouse motion

2009-02-05 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #2569072, was opened at 2009-02-05 08:31 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=106744&aid=2569072&group_id=6744 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of

Re: [Emc-developers] pyvcp example in stepconf removed

2009-02-05 Thread Alex Joni
> As I see it, someone (Chris Morley) wanted to extend stepconf so that it > had > uses beyond one specific GUI no, he didn't > - An effort I for one would support. no, you wouldn't > There is little point in producing a different setup wizard for each and > every GUI - It duplicates work, tur

Re: [Emc-developers] pyvcp example in stepconf removed

2009-02-05 Thread paul_c
On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Ray Henry wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 11:58 +, paul_c wrote: > > Chris, your thread raises several questions, none of which have had a > > satisfactory answer when asked in the past... > > We really should be asking this questions of the EMC board -- of which >

Re: [Emc-developers] pyvcp example in stepconf removed

2009-02-05 Thread EBo
Alex Joni said: > > Maybe a workable solution to this conundrum would be for Chris to fork a > > version of Stepconf into a new configurator (maybe called pyvcpConf or > > something). Since forking (sub)projects is not only legal in GPL but > > encouraged, Chris can add to his hearts content wit

Re: [Emc-developers] SMP configuration update

2009-02-05 Thread Alex Joni
>A quick google search brought up this: > http://www.linuxcnc.org/irc/irc.freenode.net:6667/emcdevel/2008-04-04.txt > > I think you need to install python-xml if you didn't already. > There was another thing that we fixed in the emc2 code, can't recall what > it > was. and as I hit send, I find

Re: [Emc-developers] SMP configuration update

2009-02-05 Thread Alex Joni
A quick google search brought up this: http://www.linuxcnc.org/irc/irc.freenode.net:6667/emcdevel/2008-04-04.txt I think you need to install python-xml if you didn't already. There was another thing that we fixed in the emc2 code, can't recall what it was. But 2.2.8 should definately have it, and

Re: [Emc-developers] pyvcp example in stepconf removed

2009-02-05 Thread Alex Joni
> Maybe a workable solution to this conundrum would be for Chris to fork a > version of Stepconf into a new configurator (maybe called pyvcpConf or > something). Since forking (sub)projects is not only legal in GPL but > encouraged, Chris can add to his hearts content without stepping on Jeff's >