Re: [Emc-developers] Wiki problems

2012-01-17 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/17/2012 11:22 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > I was just going to do some LinuxCNC renaming in the Wiki. > I find the entire wiki seems to be set to read-only. > Also, a number of pages seem to be missing. > In Getting started: > Supported Hardware, Installing Linux and LinuxCNC pure > simulator are no

[Emc-developers] Wiki problems

2012-01-17 Thread Jon Elson
I was just going to do some LinuxCNC renaming in the Wiki. I find the entire wiki seems to be set to read-only. Also, a number of pages seem to be missing. In Getting started: Supported Hardware, Installing Linux and LinuxCNC pure simulator are not active links. In configuring LinuxCNC / Servo Spe

Re: [Emc-developers] Rebranding EMC2 to LinuxCNC

2012-01-17 Thread EBo
I've completely missed any discussion on the matter. Why is rebranding "necessary"? Is there a FAQ/history that explains the rebranding? I did a quick look and it was not in the obvious places (ie on LinuxCNC.org's online documentation). On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:47:07 -0500, Steve Stallings wr

Re: [Emc-developers] Rebranding EMC2 to LinuxCNC

2012-01-17 Thread Steve Stallings
I concur that the change will appear somewhat abrupt to those who do not follow things closely, and will confuse many. The re-branding to avoid the use of "EMC" and "EMC2" may be necessary, but the obliteration of "Enhanced Machine Controller" is not, in my opinion, necessary or desirable at this

[Emc-developers] Rebranding EMC2 to LinuxCNC

2012-01-17 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: With Chris' announcement to the emc-users list concerning the agreement between EMC Corp and the Board of Directors a practical question arises. Chris' message says everything will be changed now, at v2.5.0. Replacing instances of EMC and EMC2 on the website and wiki seems prett

[Emc-developers] Copyright and License issues

2012-01-17 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: While reviewing the V2.5 documentation I was struck by the variety of ways we express copyright and license terms (or not, as the case may be). The Copyright and Documentation License part of the EMC2 documentation presumably covers all parts of the documents. Yet, individual co

[Emc-developers] V2.5 Documentation - Realtime components and kernel modules

2012-01-17 Thread Kent A. Reed
hat is) on 20120117. As in my last message, I list only the pages for which I have comments. --- bldc.9 (man/man9/bldc.9.html) bldc_hall3.9 (man/man9/bldc_hall3.9.html) We've commented on these pages in separate emails. --- classicladder.9 (man/man9/classicladder.9.html) In "SEE ALSO&quo

Re: [Emc-developers] V2.5 Documentation - Issues with Integrator "manual" - Part B

2012-01-17 Thread Jon Elson
Kent A. Reed wrote: > --- > Pico PPMC Driver (drivers/pico_ppmc.html) > > It's a minor nit, I know, but it seems to me the different Pico-board > designators PPMC, USC. and UPC should be mentioned in the introductory > paragraph since those acronyms show up repeatedly in the technical > descript

[Emc-developers] V2.5 Documentation - Commands and userspace components

2012-01-17 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: I hadn't intended to review the man pages but several recent experiences convinced me I should. This message covers editorial issues I found reviewing on http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/2.5/ concerning the (English) "Commands and userspace components" listed in index.html. I will

[Emc-developers] V2.5 Documentation - Issues with Integrator "manual" - Part B

2012-01-17 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: This message covers editorial issues I found reviewing the HTML files on http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/2.5/ concerning the (English) Integrator manual. I am picking up where I left off yesterday in Part A. I read the parts on the morning (East Coast US morning, that is) of 2012/

Re: [Emc-developers] Documentation

2012-01-17 Thread John Thornton
Sam, Thanks for clearing that up. John On 1/17/2012 8:01 AM, sam sokolik wrote: > I am homing a locking rotary... It evokes the unlock sequence. > > sam > > On 1/17/2012 7:15 AM, andy pugh wrote: >> On 17 January 2012 13:12, John Thornton wrote: >>> A note on the original commit said that hom

Re: [Emc-developers] Documentation

2012-01-17 Thread sam sokolik
I am homing a locking rotary... It evokes the unlock sequence. sam On 1/17/2012 7:15 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 17 January 2012 13:12, John Thornton wrote: >> A note on the original commit said that homing didn't know how to unlock >> and lock... I wonder if it does now? > I guess that that coul

Re: [Emc-developers] V2.5 documentation - bldc.9.html

2012-01-17 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/17/2012 3:53 AM, Alex Joni wrote: > Jeff just fixed this: > http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=emc2.git;a=commitdiff;h=a0158d4 > > Probably that's why the bldc was ok when you checked > > Thanks, Andy, for pointing this out and Jeff for fixing it. I was never a big fan of the roff/troff/nroff/

Re: [Emc-developers] Documentation

2012-01-17 Thread andy pugh
On 17 January 2012 13:12, John Thornton wrote: > A note on the original commit said that homing didn't know how to unlock > and lock... I wonder if it does now? I guess that that could be handled in HAL? -- atp The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth is, quite simply, wrong. --

Re: [Emc-developers] Documentation

2012-01-17 Thread John Thornton
A note on the original commit said that homing didn't know how to unlock and lock... I wonder if it does now? John On 1/17/2012 7:03 AM, andy pugh wrote: > LOCKING_INDEXER appears in > http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/2.5/html/config/ini_homing.html > rather than where I expected, ie > http://www

Re: [Emc-developers] Documentation

2012-01-17 Thread John Thornton
Working on that as we speak John On 1/17/2012 7:03 AM, andy pugh wrote: > LOCKING_INDEXER appears in > http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/2.5/html/config/ini_homing.html > rather than where I expected, ie > http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/2.5/html/config/ini_config.html > > I don't see any mention o

[Emc-developers] Documentation

2012-01-17 Thread andy pugh
LOCKING_INDEXER appears in http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/2.5/html/config/ini_homing.html rather than where I expected, ie http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/2.5/html/config/ini_config.html I don't see any mention of the related pins here: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/2.5/html/config/emc2hal.html

Re: [Emc-developers] questions about kernal rebuild

2012-01-17 Thread andy pugh
On 17 January 2012 10:35, chan wrote: > I tried a toshiba satellite 3005-s403 laptop on ubuntu 10.04 the rtai > does not load with a apic simulation. The 8.04 liveCD is uniprocessor, try booting from than and running the latency test. You might find that the laptop is not a good EMC2 candidate a

[Emc-developers] questions about kernal rebuild

2012-01-17 Thread chan
Hi I tried a toshiba satellite 3005-s403 laptop on ubuntu 10.04 the rtai does not load with a apic simulation. Is it possible to rebuild a uni-processor kernel to make it work? Any experience on these hardware? Or there will be hopeless for that laptop, with your experience, I don't have to put

[Emc-developers] New patch xyuv Foam/EDM view for 2.6-pre

2012-01-17 Thread Sammel Lothar
Hi this is the new working patch for/From the Git it is recomendet to load the 9Axis simulation for Testing this ngc file in the patch Sammel Lothar Germany >From 3d2d8d5fc86323416a82e682a2e4a04e324ea8b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sammel Lothar Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:16:03 +0100 Subject:

Re: [Emc-developers] V2.5 documentation - broken links in HTML files

2012-01-17 Thread Alex Joni
> > While I have momentarily screwed up my V2.5 branch and toolchain both, > just on a lark I tried searching my file siystem for files of the form > grohtml-.png. It turns out I have several hanging around from > December 2011. The very first one appears to be from a build of > man/man9/bldc.