[Emc-users] EMC2 failed to initialize

2007-04-24 Thread Dominikus Budiwibowo
Gentleman, Recently, I installed SPI driver v3.0 (Paul C.) on my system. It works, but I can't run my emc2 afterwards. Help would be appreciated. I used rutex drives R2010 to run my machine with emc2. Below is the error message and debug information from emc2: RUN_IN_PLACE=no EMC2_DIR= EMC2_B

Re: [Emc-users] Ubuntu 7.04

2007-04-24 Thread Jeff Epler
The "easy" way is to use Ubuntu 6.06, because otherwise you must build your own real-time kernel and emc packages---the emc developers do not provide packages for 7.04. For more information on how to build these packages yourself, see our wiki: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Inst

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 failed to initialize

2007-04-24 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:58:53PM +0700, Dominikus Budiwibowo wrote: > insmod: error inserting > '/usr/realtime-2.6.15-magma/modules/emc2/hal_parport.ko': -1 Device or > resource busy This may be the problem described here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?TroubleShooting#Parallel_po

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 failed to initialize

2007-04-24 Thread Kirk Wallace
Hello Budi, Are you trying to run EMC without SPI after using the SPI diver, or run EMC with SPI at the same time? Does anyone know if the drivers can be loaded at the same time? I would think that at least the EMC parallel port driver and the SPI parallel port would need to be mapped to differen

Re: [Emc-users] back from the NAMES show

2007-04-24 Thread Jon Elson
John Kasunich wrote: > > > You can do the same that we had Stuart do. Scope the index-enable and > position HAL pins of the encoder driver. Trigger on falling edge of > index-enable. On that falling edge, position had better be within a > couple counts of zero, or the index isn't working. >

Re: [Emc-users] emc2 on slack

2007-04-24 Thread John Kasunich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > >> It seems really odd that the rtapi module is loaded, but all the rtapi >> symbols are undefined. > I just export these symbols in file src/rtapi/rtl_rtapi.c > and seems that emc2 can work on my rtlinux-3.2-rc1 based box more or less. > here is my nano patch o

[Emc-users] Need a contour finder probe

2007-04-24 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Has anyone drawn up a probe of the sort one could mount in the spindle collet, hook up to emc so that when contact has been achieved, emc records the location? And, assuming this has been done, has the scanner routine to do this already been written too? I'm thinking in terms of th

Re: [Emc-users] Need a contour finder probe

2007-04-24 Thread Dave Engvall
Hi Gene, IIRC emc2 has a very nice probing routine that will do what you want and log the results. The problem, of course, is a decent probe. I would recommend trying to make a Renishaw type probe ... ie. 3 points in a triangle where the probe can lift off (disconnect) any single node to trigg

Re: [Emc-users] Need a contour finder probe

2007-04-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Dave Engvall wrote: >Hi Gene, > >IIRC emc2 has a very nice probing routine that will do what you want >and log the results. >The problem, of course, is a decent probe. I would recommend trying >to make a Renishaw type probe ... ie. 3 points in a triangle >where the probe c

Re: [Emc-users] Need a contour finder probe

2007-04-24 Thread Dean Hedin
I made this somewhat crude optical probe: http://www.hedingrips.com/Dcp00470.jpg It's deceptively simple, but it actually works very well and is very repeatable. It only triggers in the downward motion of the spindle. The "Renishaw type" probe that Dave mentioned can trigger from a sideways mot

Re: [Emc-users] Gene Heskett - Surface probe In User digest DTD Apr 24 2007

2007-04-24 Thread John R. Gabriel
I have such a probe sold by MAXNC for a rather expensive price. Having seen it, I think one could be made based on 4 micro switches arranged round a 1/4" ball end of a probe in gimbals or on small springs at its midpoint and a 1/16 or 1/32 ball on the lower end. If the object being probed wer