[Emc-users] Repost: Teach with joystick.

2008-08-11 Thread Daniel Kavanagh
Hi All, Can I teach with a joystick, record movements and the save the moves and then replay them? I have yet to find any info about the teach-in function. Dan - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Jon Elson
Andre' Blanchard wrote: > At 12:39 PM 8/11/2008, you wrote: > > >>The easiest editor for most people will probably just be gedit aka "Text >>Editor" in the Accessories menu. >> >>Moses > > > A small easy to use editor that can open up the same and/or multiple files > in multiple windows is som

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper configuration

2008-08-11 Thread Jon Elson
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Jon Elson wrote: >> >>OK, same problem as my PPMC line, then. But, 1 KHz isn't fast >>enough? Or, does handling the Mesa's 72 I/O points take a lot >>longer than my 24? > > > I haven't done speed tests of the 7i43 with hostmot2 for a while, but i > think low ones

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper configuration

2008-08-11 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > paul_c wrote: >> On Sunday 10 August 2008, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: >>> It looks like rtai has semaphores but doesnt support blocking in the >>> kernel (no run queues). Maybe something like spinlocks could be built >>> around the non-blocking semaphore calls. >> You

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 August 2008, Steve Blackmore wrote: >On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:06:09 -0400, you wrote: >>On Monday 11 August 2008, Steve Blackmore wrote: >>>On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:09:33 -0600, you wrote: What do you expect the EMC volunteers to do to encourage new users? >>> >>>A fully working distro

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 August 2008, Moses O McKnight wrote: >On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:06 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> As for editors, there are several available. I'm partial to the vi/vim >> offerings myself. > >If you're going to recommend a command-line text editor to a newbie, I >would recommend nano o

Re: [Emc-users] Info for new users of Linux/EMC

2008-08-11 Thread Emory Smith
Thanks for the kind words. I also put a link to your page on mine. Will put mine on the wiki after a week or so's feedback. Emory You might want to add a link to it on the wiki - I added my tutorial on > there and that page has had a decent amount of activity according to my stat > files. > ---

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper configuration

2008-08-11 Thread Matt Shaver
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 16:02 +0100, paul_c wrote: > If you read the Xilinx license.txt, you will find it goes on at length > about "copyrighted material", "trade secrets", "proprietory information", > and "Intellectual Property". Section 2 make interesting reading along side > the GPL text.. > >

Re: [Emc-users] Info for new users of Linux/EMC

2008-08-11 Thread Greg Michalski
Emory - I appreciate the compliment - and your information is very helpful and I certainly don't consider it undermining or competitive! It most certainly doesn't suck. I think I'll add a link to the title page of my tutorial to aim the people over to take a look at what you've got (and I'll t

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper configuration

2008-08-11 Thread Matt Shaver
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 08:19 -0500, Jeff Epler wrote: > I had a Xilinx92i installation on a 32-bit machine and copied it over to > a 64-bit machine. I had to revise the settings.sh file to force the > architecture to be lin, not lin64. but it does run. no idea if > installing from scratch will wo

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Matt Shaver
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 02:58 +0100, Steve Blackmore wrote: > Your answer only reinforces my point, you all seem to assume everybody > knows what you are talking about, and you do little or nothing to > encourage new users. Maybe this e-mail list needs a periodic posting of FAQs, as was done on th

Re: [Emc-users] vi/vim/gedit

2008-08-11 Thread Moses O McKnight
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:04 -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote: > I agree. Does anyone have a shortcut for using gedit on root files? I > end up using a terminal window "sudo su -, gedit". It would be nice to > open gedit normally and then invoke root privileges. You can create a launcher for it. Right cl

Re: [Emc-users] stepconf in 2.2.6 release

2008-08-11 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:09:31PM -0300, Christopher Purcell wrote: > Stepconf in the new release seems to write crazy max velocity values ... Please send me your stepconf file in a direct email (not reply to list) and I'll look into this. Thanks for your report. Jeff ---

[Emc-users] stepconf in 2.2.6 release

2008-08-11 Thread Christopher Purcell
Stepconf in the new release seems to write crazy max velocity values for the x and z axes of a 3 axis stepper file, when asked to open an existing stepconf generated file. (The acceleration values also look odd). On the bright side the Y axis settings are fine and are the same as produced by

[Emc-users] Pyvcp scripts.

2008-08-11 Thread Ian W. Wright
Hi, I have finally got my stepper driven lathe working Ok and configured speed indication on the AXIS display as in the 'sim lathe' config. however, I would really like to have the speed bar displayed vertically to maximise the plot window on the screen. I have found some mention in documentat

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Ian W. Wright
>>>Bit of problem there Gene, it's the Live CD version, so can't edit the file. I don't want to risk writing configuration files over a working Windows/Mach3 machine which I was testing on. The PC is 3.2GHz AMD with 2Gb of RAM so really shouldn't be slow. Steve, Installing the Ubuntu version

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:06:09 -0400, you wrote: >On Monday 11 August 2008, Steve Blackmore wrote: >>On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:09:33 -0600, you wrote: >>>What do you expect the EMC volunteers to do to encourage new users? >> >>A fully working distro would be a good start :) >> >>I downloaded the latest

[Emc-users] Info for new users of Linux/EMC

2008-08-11 Thread Emory Smith
I put up a page that might be helpful to new users: http://stratcat50.googlepages.com/Linux-EMC.html If it sucks, tell me. If you see errors, tell me. If you think it needs anything (including deletion ;^), tell me. It's by no means complete and suggestions are welcome. This is in no way meant to

Re: [Emc-users] vi/vim/gedit

2008-08-11 Thread Alex Joni
You can use "sudo gedit", either from a terminal, or make a shortcut for that. Regards, Alex - Original Message - From: "Kirk Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 9:04 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] vi/vim/gedit > On Mon, 200

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 12:53 -0500, Andre' Blanchard wrote: > At 12:39 PM 8/11/2008, you wrote: > > >The easiest editor for most people will probably just be gedit aka "Text > >Editor" in the Accessories menu. > > > >Moses > > A small easy to use editor that can open up the same and/or multiple fi

Re: [Emc-users] vi/vim/gedit

2008-08-11 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 12:39 -0500, Moses O McKnight wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:06 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > As for editors, there are several available. I'm partial to the vi/vim > > offerings myself. > > > If you're going to recommend a command-line text editor to a newbie, I > wou

Re: [Emc-users] LOGOPEN

2008-08-11 Thread Andi Frommel
too bad, I thought it can save me some time ;-) I think it is not possible to suspend the PROBEOPEN function to log only those measurements of interest. Andy Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: 11.08.2008 19:05 An: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Andre' Blanchard
At 12:39 PM 8/11/2008, you wrote: >The easiest editor for most people will probably just be gedit aka "Text >Editor" in the Accessories menu. > >Moses A small easy to use editor that can open up the same and/or multiple files in multiple windows is something that would be really handy for editin

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Moses O McKnight
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:06 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > As for editors, there are several available. I'm partial to the vi/vim > offerings myself. If you're going to recommend a command-line text editor to a newbie, I would recommend nano over vi/vim any day! At least with nano you can easily

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper configuration

2008-08-11 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
paul_c wrote: > On Sunday 10 August 2008, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: >> It looks like rtai has semaphores but doesnt support blocking in the >> kernel (no run queues). Maybe something like spinlocks could be built >> around the non-blocking semaphore calls. > > You want one of the rt_spinlock cal

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper configuration

2008-08-11 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Jon Elson wrote: > John Kasunich wrote: >> Jon Elson wrote: >>> One way out of this would be to have this GPIO on a separate EPP >>> port (unless the GPIO hardware is the same as the motion hardware). >> >> We are talking about the Mesa FPGA based boards, with 72 I/O pins on one >> board. So yes

Re: [Emc-users] LOGOPEN

2008-08-11 Thread Jeff Epler
Unfortunately, (LOGOPEN) is not actually implemented in emc 2.2.x. It is a new feature in the development version of the software, but documentation for it was accidentally included in emc 2.2. I will remove the mention of (LOGOPEN) from the next update of the documentation. It is unlikely that

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper configuration

2008-08-11 Thread Jon Elson
John Kasunich wrote: > Jon Elson wrote: > > >>One way out of this would be to have this GPIO on a separate EPP >>port (unless the GPIO hardware is the same as the motion hardware). > > > We are talking about the Mesa FPGA based boards, with 72 I/O pins on one > board. So yes, the GPIO is on

Re: [Emc-users] OT -networking

2008-08-11 Thread Jon Elson
Gene Heskett wrote: > > The reason I chose 85 is cuz vz blocks 80, and dd-wrt port forwards 85 to > this > machine. 85, according to my info, is not assigned to a specific service. I > see the login screen at 8080. I could turn that off, but I occasionally have > a friend that is better at

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper configuration

2008-08-11 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
John Kasunich wrote: > Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: >> If RTAI supported mutexes and thread-blocking, then fast gpio access >> could be easily done even on the EPP boards. >> ... > HAL (and EMC2) uses Rate Monotonic Scheduling > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_Monotonic_Scheduling) which is the >

[Emc-users] LOGOPEN

2008-08-11 Thread Andi Frommel
hi ! if I use the following: (LOGOPEN,MyFile.txt) (LOG,this is a test blabla) (LOGCLOSE) where can i find MyFile? or what's wrong with my typing? br Andy - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's ch

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 August 2008, Steve Blackmore wrote: >On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:09:33 -0600, you wrote: >>What do you expect the EMC volunteers to do to encourage new users? > >A fully working distro would be a good start :) > >I downloaded the latest live CD, it booted fine, however on loading EMC >sim/l

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:09:33 -0600, you wrote: >What do you expect the EMC volunteers to do to encourage new users? A fully working distro would be a good start :) I downloaded the latest live CD, it booted fine, however on loading EMC sim/lathe it froze the PC, only way out was the reset butt

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 August 2008, Ray Henry wrote: >There are a couple of real truths in the midst of this thread, but... > >First I want to thank all of the folk who contributed to the >construction of this latest version. I've watched bug fixes, and doc >editing as we approached the release and several

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Ray Henry
There are a couple of real truths in the midst of this thread, but... First I want to thank all of the folk who contributed to the construction of this latest version. I've watched bug fixes, and doc editing as we approached the release and several have done the heavy lifting. Thanks. Then t

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper configuration

2008-08-11 Thread John Kasunich
Jon Elson wrote: > One way out of this would be to have this GPIO on a separate EPP > port (unless the GPIO hardware is the same as the motion hardware). We are talking about the Mesa FPGA based boards, with 72 I/O pins on one board. So yes, the GPIO is on the same EPP bus (and the same chip)

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Jeff Epler
I'm sorry that the release notes didn't include adequate installation instructions. Unlike some other operating systems, Ubuntu provides a unified update manager for all software--there's no need for a different one to learn for each software package. If you're running the standard desktop enviro

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Alex Joni
> You should have written: > "We are always looking for more help." I second that, and I hope everybody drops the rest of this thread, as it serves no purpose. Regards, Alex - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Y

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Kenneth Lerman
Hey John, you have a typo in your last line. You wrote: "They are always looking for more help. " You should have written: "We are always looking for more help." :-) Regards, Ken John Thornton wrote: > Steve, > > What is really on your mind? > > You come out with both barrels blasting you

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread John Thornton
Steve, What is really on your mind? You come out with both barrels blasting your bound to get some flak... On 11 Aug 2008 at 2:58, Steve Blackmore wrote: > On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:21:11 -0600, you wrote: > > >Gee Steve, one would assume that if you subscribe to the EMC USERS > >mailing list

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:03:57 +0100, you wrote: >Your attitude doesn't help. I can imagine your response to a newbie on >the Mach list who posted a similar message to yours. It would probably >have been less restrained than the replies you have had. Never imagine, it's always a disappointment w

Re: [Emc-users] Siemens cncboard

2008-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 August 2008, Stefan Olsson wrote: >Hello > >I have not used the emc and have a few questions > >I Have some of the siemens isa boards that palonen made driver for on his > page I tried to sell them but no interest >So i will try to use them myself and want tru answer about how hard yo

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 August 2008, Kirk Wallace wrote: >On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 20:59 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >.snip > >> >Also found your DD-WRT >> >> Where, its not supposed to be visible Kirk, or are you talking about its >> web page? > >Sorry about being vague. I just get a login prompt with "Enter use

[Emc-users] Siemens cncboard

2008-08-11 Thread Stefan Olsson
Hello I have not used the emc and have a few questions I Have some of the siemens isa boards that palonen made driver for on his page I tried to sell them but no interest So i will try to use them myself and want tru answer about how hard you think it will be to get them to work in emc Another

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6 (Steve Blackmore)

2008-08-11 Thread Sven Wesley
2008/8/11 Steve Blackmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:19:09 -0700, you wrote: > > > > I will give you this,EMC is not for someone who has no > >interest in tinkering with Linux or electronics > > Which is precisely why it's an elitist thing and prospective users are > scared away

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Leslie Newell
Hi Steve, Your attitude doesn't help. I can imagine your response to a newbie on the Mach list who posted a similar message to yours. It would probably have been less restrained than the replies you have had. If you look, there is actually a reasonable amount of documentation. In fact large ch

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6 (Steve Blackmore)

2008-08-11 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:19:09 -0700, you wrote: > I will give you this,EMC is not for someone who has no >interest in tinkering with Linux or electronics Which is precisely why it's an elitist thing and prospective users are scared away. I have no problem with the electronics, or CNC (5 machine

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 01:58 +0100, Steve Blackmore wrote: ... snip > I've been a lurker for a long time here, I can write SCL, JCL, Cobol, > limited VB and odd bits of C+ and I still think you guys talk down to > me. What chance somebody who simply wants to run a CNC machine!!! > > Steve Blackmore