Re: [Emc-users] problems with USB inside my sim (was: .so components?)

2012-01-07 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/1/7 Spiderdab 77...@tiscali.it: Note that the same setup works on my machine. Here it is under Virtualbox, and i want to know why it doesn't run. AFAIK it has never been encouraged to run EMC on virtual machines. First of all, due to incredible latency numbers. I have not been playing

[Emc-users] Good latency results

2012-01-07 Thread Alastair D'Silva
I recently built a new (very cheap) machine to control my laser engraver, and got particularly good results, so I thought I'd share what I did with the community: These are the results from running the latency test for 10 hours, with Firefox, glxgears glxhead running in the background:

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-07 Thread charles green
if i knew better, i would say that updates are not generally really evil things. --- On Fri, 1/6/12, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: From: gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com Subject: Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders. To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Friday, January

Re: [Emc-users] Good latency results

2012-01-07 Thread andy pugh
On 7 January 2012 09:59, Alastair D'Silva alast...@d-silva.org wrote: If someone could point me to how to add this to the wiki, it would be appreciated. The page is here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Latency-Test You may see a small link at the bottom edit text of this page but

[Emc-users] halui.axis.N.pos-relative

2012-01-07 Thread Tom Easterday
We were looking at some torch height control logic and need the commanded relative position (work coordinates). According to the documentation halui.axis.N.pos-relative claims to be this, but in fact it is not the commanded position, it is the actual position (we can see the value change by

[Emc-users] Ideal Atom?

2012-01-07 Thread Kirk Wallace
mATX with PCI slots and Atom. Looks ideal to me. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Point-View-MB-D510-MATX-Motherboard-6-channel/dp/B0037L739U http://alturl.com/hzxab I don't see it available in the US though. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/

Re: [Emc-users] Ideal Atom?

2012-01-07 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/1/7 Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com: mATX with PCI slots and Atom. Looks ideal to me. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Point-View-MB-D510-MATX-Motherboard-6-channel/dp/B0037L739U http://alturl.com/hzxab I don't see it available in the US though. Any particular reason to get MB with 2

Re: [Emc-users] Ideal Atom?

2012-01-07 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, Viesturs L?cis wrote: Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 20:07:05 +0200 From: [UTF-8] Viesturs L?cis viesturs.la...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [Emc-users] Ideal Atom?

2012-01-07 Thread Dave
On 1/7/2012 12:42 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: mATX with PCI slots and Atom. Looks ideal to me. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Point-View-MB-D510-MATX-Motherboard-6-channel/dp/B0037L739U http://alturl.com/hzxab I don't see it available in the US though. More info on that board here..

Re: [Emc-users] Ideal Atom?

2012-01-07 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
My next atom board will probably be this one... http://www.mitxpc.com/proddetail.asp?prod=MBNC9KDL2700 or a similar one based on the D2600 (which has been pulled from the site because they aren't allowed to sell it till 15th Jan). The D2600 board is 1.8GHZ, and is a lower profile so it should

[Emc-users] 208V ?

2012-01-07 Thread a
Hi i want to ask about power supply and power surge protection for machines electrical system. If power supply 3 phase 208 v in shop, do i need any transformer stabilizer (208v to 208V)or power surge device to protect machine electrical system? i am asking this question because there are often

Re: [Emc-users] Ideal Atom?

2012-01-07 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Here's a link to the D2600 board from google cache... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:38ouTBEu2wYJ:www.mitxpc .com/proddetail.asp%3Fprod%3DMBNF9C2600%26cat%3D180+Jetway+NF9C-2600+Intel+A tom+N2600+Low+Profile+Mini-ITX+Motherboardcd=3hl=enct=clnkgl=au Unfortunately, I just

Re: [Emc-users] Ideal Atom?

2012-01-07 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/1/7 Frank Tkalcevic fr...@franksworkshop.com.au: My next atom board will probably be this one... http://www.mitxpc.com/proddetail.asp?prod=MBNC9KDL2700 Does anyone think there will be issues using the latest generation atom chips with emc or linux? Thanks for pointing this out! I

Re: [Emc-users] Ideal Atom?

2012-01-07 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/1/7 Frank Tkalcevic fr...@franksworkshop.com.au: Here's a link to the D2600 board from google cache... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:38ouTBEu2wYJ:www.mitxpc .com/proddetail.asp%3Fprod%3DMBNF9C2600%26cat%3D180+Jetway+NF9C-2600+Intel+A

Re: [Emc-users] Ideal Atom?

2012-01-07 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
It should be fine for EMC in terms of latency numbers, but I am reserved about LPT port. Is there any practical situation to make use of 2 LANs? Not for me. I just love the mini-itx foot print, and how small we can make emc machines, with a 5i20 PCI card. The D945 single core board works

Re: [Emc-users] halui.axis.N.pos-relative

2012-01-07 Thread Ben Jackson
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 11:09:45AM -0500, Tom Easterday wrote: We were looking at some torch height control logic and need the commanded relative position (work coordinates). According to the documentation halui.axis.N.pos-relative claims to be this, but in fact it is not the commanded

Re: [Emc-users] Ideal Atom?

2012-01-07 Thread Dave
On 1/7/2012 2:41 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2012/1/7 Frank Tkalcevicfr...@franksworkshop.com.au: Here's a link to the D2600 board from google cache... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:38ouTBEu2wYJ:www.mitxpc

Re: [Emc-users] Ideal Atom?

2012-01-07 Thread Jack Coats
Reason for 2 LAN ports? The only reasons I have ever used them was 1) bonding, to get more bandwidth for one server than was normally available. back up servers need lots of incoming bandwidth and multiple NICs are a good way to do that. multiple bonded NICs is one way, another is

Re: [Emc-users] ur steppers

2012-01-07 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/5/2012 8:46 PM, gene heskett wrote: Where can I find some real docs on this isolcpu thingy? Gene: Quoting from kernel.org: isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler. Format: cpu number,...,cpu number

[Emc-users] OT: HDMI to VGA Was RE: Ideal Atom?

2012-01-07 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I've just googled for HDMI to VGA converter cables, and they seem cheap and plentiful. Is this just a plug in solution? Is the HDMI signal VGA compatible? http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:38ouTBEu2wYJ:w ww .mitxpc

Re: [Emc-users] OT: HDMI to VGA Was RE: Ideal Atom?

2012-01-07 Thread Ben Jackson
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 10:20:45AM +1100, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: I've just googled for HDMI to VGA converter cables, and they seem cheap and plentiful. Is this just a plug in solution? Is the HDMI signal VGA compatible? N. DVI has pins in it (the 4 more widely spaced ones in a square

Re: [Emc-users] OT: HDMI to VGA Was RE: Ideal Atom?

2012-01-07 Thread andy pugh
On 7 January 2012 23:30, Ben Jackson b...@ben.com wrote: N.  DVI has pins in it (the 4 more widely spaced ones in a square on one end) which carry VGA.  Most (maybe all) display cards present normal analog VGA signals on those pins.  There are devices (DVI-D) which don't have those pins

Re: [Emc-users] OT: HDMI to VGA Was RE: Ideal Atom?

2012-01-07 Thread Ben Jackson
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 11:37:17PM +, andy pugh wrote: HDMI to DVI-D should be easy then, and I would much rather drive an LCD with DVI than pretend it has a raster and send VGA. Yes, if you want DVI-D (for LCD) then HDMI is just a cabling issue. The video signals are the same. (HDMI can

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders. (Peter Blodow)

2012-01-07 Thread Martin Patton
What rotary table is that on your mill? Did you make the adapter for the stepper? I want one of those. Thanks, Marty -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders. (Peter Blodow)

2012-01-07 Thread andy pugh
On 8 January 2012 01:33, Martin Patton mart...@gmail.com wrote: What rotary table is that on your mill?  Did you make the adapter for the stepper?  I want one of those. The table is one of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RDGTOOLS-LATEST-HV4-ROTARY-TABLE-4-100MM-/290630172909 Though it isn't

Re: [Emc-users] ur steppers

2012-01-07 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, January 07, 2012 08:40:23 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: On 1/5/2012 8:46 PM, gene heskett wrote: Where can I find some real docs on this isolcpu thingy? Gene: Quoting from kernel.org: isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.

Re: [Emc-users] halui.axis.N.pos-relative

2012-01-07 Thread Tom Easterday
On Jan 7, 2012, at 3:44 PM, Ben Jackson wrote: You can probably use the trick I used to extract the homing offset from axis. Observe that halui.axis.N.pos - halui.axis.N.pos-relative is origin.0 If you then find halui.axis.N.pos-commanded - origin.0 you should have the true pos-relative