Re: [Emc-developers] old distros

2020-04-24 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 17:58, René Hopf via Emc-developers wrote: > I added the EOL date of the official distros to the wiki: > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MinimumSoftwareVersions > Notice that only stretch and buster are not near end of life. I tried to install Buster on my mill co

Re: [Emc-developers] old distros

2020-04-24 Thread Reinhard
Hi Andy, On Freitag, 24. April 2020, 13:20:53 CEST andy pugh wrote: > I tried to install Buster on my mill controller to have another test system. > Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work. > The board is fairly old, ... I have similar board (guess its from Asus) with Atom-CPU too, where I have s

Re: [Emc-developers] old distros

2020-04-24 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 14:52, Reinhard wrote: > I realized, that the BIOS does not support USB, although it claimes to do so. > I wasn't able to install from usb or use usb-keyboards ... I can use USB keyboards in grub and in the BIOS screen, so I think it has to support USB. (It has no PS/2 por

Re: [Emc-developers] old distros

2020-04-24 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 12:20, andy pugh wrote: > I tried to install Buster on my mill controller to have another test system. > Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work. Nor does stretch (4.9.0.7 kernel) Interesting. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designe

[Emc-developers] my runtests fail

2020-04-24 Thread Gene Heskett
While you are seeing about that, I ran down the test thats failing, and found the error is actually "can't load simpockets.tbl" which does exist at 4 other locations in the tree and twice in my home/linuxcnc/sims dir. This is in linuxcnc-dev/tests/tool-info/random-with-startup-tool$/test.sh whi

Re: [Emc-developers] my runtests fail

2020-04-24 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 16:11, Gene Heskett wrote: > > While you are seeing about that, I ran down the test thats failing, and > found the error is actually "can't load simpockets.tbl" It isn't that, if you look at the test output. Try going in to the test folder and running "runtests -v ." and i

Re: [Emc-developers] my runtests fail

2020-04-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 April 2020 11:42:18 andy pugh wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 16:11, Gene Heskett wrote: > > While you are seeing about that, I ran down the test thats failing, > > and found the error is actually "can't load simpockets.tbl" > > It isn't that, if you look at the test output. > > Try

Re: [Emc-developers] my runtests fail

2020-04-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 April 2020 11:42:18 andy pugh wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 16:11, Gene Heskett wrote: > > While you are seeing about that, I ran down the test thats failing, > > and found the error is actually "can't load simpockets.tbl" > > It isn't that, if you look at the test output. > > Try

[Emc-developers] startup of linuxcnc and axis

2020-04-24 Thread Reinhard
Hi, I have a desktop with increased font size. When I start linuxcnc (configuration selector), it comes up with the buttons outside the visible area. To me it looks like the minimal size of the listbox is bigger than the entire window, so I have to manually grow the window to see the buttons and

Re: [Emc-developers] startup of linuxcnc and axis

2020-04-24 Thread Phill Carter
> When axis comes up, it has the size given from the window-manager. Then after > a short delay it shrinks to the tiny size. > May be, its possible to set the size of the main window earlier, so that it > accepts the size given from window-manager? you can set the size of Axis with the followin

Re: [Emc-developers] startup of linuxcnc and axis

2020-04-24 Thread Reinhard
Hi Phill, thanks for the hint! works, but I forgot, that tk has different screen orientation, so position is odd. But position overriding from window-manager works, so now it works as wanted. cheers Reinhard ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-de

[Emc-developers] Setting up to work on 64-bit driver issues

2020-04-24 Thread Jon Elson
So, I finally got the decks cleared a bit, and want to work on the 64-bit issues in the Pico ppmc driver. I got the amd64-r13 installed and running, after some network issues. I immediately saw there were problems handling conversion to scaled position. I expected problems with the sign-exten