Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread Chris Morley
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 16:20:51 +0200 From: mar...@mastercut.co.za To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers Chris This is a very old bug that has been reported several times. At least once by myself. It is still in all the latest code on

Re: [Emc-users] additional special thread

2013-10-04 Thread Rudy du Preez
I have tried in version 2.5.3 to create a special realtime thread using the threads component with loadrt threads name1=sio-thread period1=104200 and am having some problems. In some cases (depending on the period) linuxcnc wont start up and gives an error message not permitted. I would like to

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Chris It seems that the erronous lines are gone but I just realized that I cannot change the location where the files are generated to. I was running form a dev RIP and the files where created in the production directory. Would it not be better if one could place the generated config in the

Re: [Emc-users] additional special thread

2013-10-04 Thread andy pugh
On 4 October 2013 08:12, Rudy du Preez r...@asmsa.co.za wrote: I would like to have two threads: servo-thread at the usual 100 ns period and a new thread say sio-thread at 104200 ns. Why does it not want to allow it? I think that the threads have to be created in order fastest to slowest.

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth Chris Morley. On 2 October 2013 18:26, Russell Brown russ...@lls.lls.com wrote: loadrt abs names= loadrt lowpass names= Ok I think it's really fix this time. seems asking for a gladeVCP sample panel but without a spindle speed display set it off. Please test

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread David Armstrong
On 04/10/13 11:19, Russell Brown wrote: Quoth Chris Morley. On 2 October 2013 18:26, Russell Brown russ...@lls.lls.com wrote: loadrt abs names= loadrt lowpass names= Ok I think it's really fix this time. seems asking for a gladeVCP sample panel but without a

Re: [Emc-users] server under attack?

2013-10-04 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 04.10.13 00:00, Gene Heskett wrote: I was just doing an update to my shop machines, running 2.5.3, and noted it was rather slow, as in very slow, 20kb/sec. Normally I get about 380k/sec from here. Is the server under attack? Gene, what did top and iotop show? When one of my machines

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth Chris Morley. From: russ...@lls.lls.com ... I just changed the INI file as I had with the vanilla parallel port setup and as the docs suggest was normal practise after generating the initial config. Where in the docs did you see this? It is normal but we should mention the problem

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth David Armstrong. On 04/10/13 11:19, Russell Brown wrote: The bad news is that the config generated fails to run (in 2.5.3) with: Mesa_Mill.hal:124: Pin 'motion.spindle-speed-out-rps-abs' does not exist i believe it's just a typo or a change of name etc i think that particular line

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread David Armstrong
On 04/10/13 12:16, Russell Brown wrote: Quoth David Armstrong. On 04/10/13 11:19, Russell Brown wrote: The bad news is that the config generated fails to run (in 2.5.3) with: Mesa_Mill.hal:124: Pin 'motion.spindle-speed-out-rps-abs' does not exist i believe it's just a typo or a change of

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread andy pugh
On 4 October 2013 11:19, Russell Brown russ...@lls.lls.com wrote: Mesa_Mill.hal:124: Pin 'motion.spindle-speed-out-rps-abs' does not exist The pin was added in this commit: http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=linuxcnc.git;a=commit;h=71f6326a9e2585122856a77619dfeae193a61d5d Which isn't in 2.5.3. I

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth David Armstrong. On 04/10/13 12:16, Russell Brown wrote: Quoth David Armstrong. On 04/10/13 11:19, Russell Brown wrote: The bad news is that the config generated fails to run (in 2.5.3) with: Mesa_Mill.hal:124: Pin 'motion.spindle-speed-out-rps-abs' does not exist i believe it's

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth andy pugh. On 4 October 2013 11:19, Russell Brown russ...@lls.lls.com wrote: Mesa_Mill.hal:124: Pin 'motion.spindle-speed-out-rps-abs' does not exist The pin was added in this commit: http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=linuxcnc.git;a=commit;h=71f6326a9e2585122856a77619dfeae193a61d5d

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Unless you are in the /bin directory of your dev/master repository, and you invoke pncconf from the terminal, you will actually run the 2.5.3 production pncconf. I did run the master pncconf and it does not create the two lines. On 2013/10/04 02:07 PM, Russell Brown wrote: Quoth David

Re: [Emc-users] server under attack?

2013-10-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 04 October 2013 10:39:42 Erik Christiansen did opine: On 04.10.13 00:00, Gene Heskett wrote: I was just doing an update to my shop machines, running 2.5.3, and noted it was rather slow, as in very slow, 20kb/sec. Normally I get about 380k/sec from here. Is the server under

Re: [Emc-users] What does these do?

2013-10-04 Thread Sven Wesley
2013/10/3 Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com 2013/10/3 Dave Cole linuxcncro...@gmail.com Probably braking resistors for the spindle. The resistors are connected across the 3 phases of the motor to bring the motor to a rapid stop. Looks like they are wired in a Wye or Star connection..

[Emc-users] Yet another board possibly suitable for LCNC.

2013-10-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman
The Intel Galileo, with Mini PCIe slot and Arduino shield pin headers. 400Mhz Quark SoC with 256MB RAM etc. Programmable with the standard Arduino IDE, is running Yocto Linux so that should be changeable. http://hackaday.com/2013/10/03/the-intel-powered-arduino/

Re: [Emc-users] Yet another board possibly suitable for LCNC.

2013-10-04 Thread andy pugh
On 5 October 2013 00:03, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote: The Intel Galileo, with Mini PCIe slot and Arduino shield pin headers. 400Mhz Quark SoC with 256MB RAM etc. Programmable with the standard Arduino IDE, is running Yocto Linux so that should be changeable. I am wondering when my

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread Chris Morley
From: russ...@lls.lls.com To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 13:46:29 +0100 Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers Quoth andy pugh. On 4 October 2013 11:19, Russell Brown russ...@lls.lls.com wrote: Mesa_Mill.hal:124: Pin

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread Chris Morley
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 11:25:22 +0200 From: mar...@mastercut.co.za To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers Chris It seems that the erronous lines are gone but I just realized that I cannot change the location where the files are

Re: [Emc-users] Following Error with Steppers

2013-10-04 Thread Chris Morley
Where in the docs did you see this? It is normal but we should mention the problem you have encountered (needing to adjust both) Sixth para of: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config/pncconf.html which I admit doesn't say just change the INI file :-) I'm sure I've seen the use