[Emc-users] Problems with ethernet driver.

2015-02-27 Thread Andreas Pettersson
So built another pc, for linuxcnc, and installed it with the 2.6 image. Installing works fine, and it finds the network card and all. But once booted it will not detect the wired network anymore. The chipset is something onboard, known as Intel i217-V. Its supposed to work with the e1000e driver f

[Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Andreas Pettersson
So i had some issued with drivers, but got around that by installing the machinekit-rtai kernel and then manually compile linuxcnc ontop of wheezy.. Well i dont think its optimal. The setup is a Core i5, 8gb ram and running SSD drivers in a raid 0 configuration. Lets say it boots like its on a

Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, Andreas Pettersson wrote: > Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:58:08 +0100 > From: Andreas Pettersson > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel > > So i had some issued wi

Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Are you running a standard Wheezy AMD64 install and the master buildbot installations as well then?? I can always reinstall, i rather have a 64bit OS than the PAE version anyday. =) // A Peter C. Wallace skrev den 2015-02-27 16:20: > On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, Andreas Pettersson wrote: > >> Date: Fr

Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, Andreas Pettersson wrote: > Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:09:10 +0100 > From: Andreas Pettersson > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel > > Are you running a s

Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Andreas Pettersson
But stock wheezy is 64bit and with the RT_PREEMPT kernel, you managed to compile linuxcnc with that? All i get when trying that is "No realtime kernel present" error.. :/ // A Peter C. Wallace skrev den 2015-02-27 17:15: > On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, Andreas Pettersson wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2

Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, Andreas Pettersson wrote: > Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:20:53 +0100 > From: Andreas Pettersson > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel > > But stock wheezy is

Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Ah that worked quite well, but only utilized a fraction of the ram properly.. Got the latency down to 3500 with that, its an acceptable speed.. im little bit worried about the ram tho.. anyway, gonna try to get this 6i25 card running next.. // A Peter C. Wallace skrev den 2015-02-27 17:31: > O

Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 2/27/15 9:20 AM, Andreas Pettersson wrote: > But stock wheezy is 64bit and with the RT_PREEMPT kernel, you managed to > compile linuxcnc with that? All i get when trying that is "No realtime > kernel present" error.. :/ Yes, LinuxCNC runs fine on 64-bit RT-Preempt. You need the "uspace" flav

Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Sweet im gonna try that, having issues with PAE not claiming one of the memory modules. =) Thanks! // A Sebastian Kuzminsky skrev den 2015-02-27 18:26: > On 2/27/15 9:20 AM, Andreas Pettersson wrote: >> But stock wheezy is 64bit and with the RT_PREEMPT kernel, you managed to >> compile linuxcnc

Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 2/27/15 11:17 AM, Andreas Pettersson wrote: > Sweet im gonna try that, having issues with PAE not claiming one of the > memory modules. =) This is a bug in our "pae" kernel - it actually has pae turned off, so you can only use the first 3.5 gigs or so. I punished the guy responsible for that

Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Ah i see, i was considering rebuilding the kernel, so if this isnt working i will do that. But this could be useful to learn as well. - just reinstall for the 30th time this day.. *lmao* // Andreas Sebastian Kuzminsky skrev den 2015-02-27 19:21: > On 2/27/15 11:17 AM, Andreas Pettersson wrote:

Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Andreas Pettersson
So im guessing the step, where you do ./configure -a in the debian folder is void and null when running the RT_PREEMPT kernel, because it states there is no realtime kernel and refuses to configure. In effect i cant figure out which packages i need to install other than running the other configu

Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 2/27/15 11:44 AM, Andreas Pettersson wrote: > So im guessing the step, where you do ./configure -a in the debian > folder is void and null when running the RT_PREEMPT kernel, because it > states there is no realtime kernel and refuses to configure. > In effect i cant figure out which packages i

Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Andreas Pettersson
yeah i figured, i got it working and are stressing it now, i wrote this for my own head - but will most likely google index pretty fast as well.. http://www.roughedge.se/blogg/2015/02/27/installing-linuxcnc-2-7-uspace-on-debian-wheezy/ Servothread 11347, Base thread 12665 while running 5 glxgear

Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Andreas Pettersson
If its stable running after 15min of basicly 100% cpu load - do i need to bother running it any longer? // Andreas Sebastian Kuzminsky skrev den 2015-02-27 19:49: > On 2/27/15 11:44 AM, Andreas Pettersson wrote: >> So im guessing the step, where you do ./configure -a in the debian >> folder is v

Re: [Emc-users] Introduction and a couple questions

2015-02-27 Thread Brent Loschen
On 2/21/2015 6:27 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > On 02/21/2015 03:42 PM, Brent Loschen wrote: >> Greetings everyone! New guy here. I've been following the group for >> several weeks and feel it's time for an intro and to get some >> suggestions for a small project I'm working on. > Welcome to the wor

Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread John Kasunich
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015, at 02:13 PM, Andreas Pettersson wrote: > If its stable running after 15min of basicly 100% cpu load - do i need > to bother running it any longer? > Is if 15 minutes of doing the same "load" thing over and over? Or doing a lot of different things? CPU loading usually does

Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 2/27/15 3:37 PM, John Kasunich wrote: > > Stress it in a variety of ways - transfer large files on the network, drag > windows around, play a youtube video, run glxgears, walk away until the > screensaver and/or power management kicks in, etc. Also try disk I/O and USB hotplug events. -- Seb

Re: [Emc-users] Introduction and a couple questions

2015-02-27 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, Brent Loschen wrote: > Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:24:48 -0700 > From: Brent Loschen > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Introduction and a couple questions > > > On 2/21/2015 6:27 PM, Kirk Wal

Re: [Emc-users] Introduction and a couple questions

2015-02-27 Thread andy pugh
On 27 February 2015 at 22:24, Brent Loschen wrote: > If so, what is that data and how is it different from step/dir signals > in the default case? Can anyone comment on the differences or point me > to documentation that explains it? It might help to start with the parport stepgen. That has two

Re: [Emc-users] Latency issues; machinekit Kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Ah well yeah the GPU was an issue, running the onboard in the i5 - but giving it more resources helped alot. For I/O i ran a create and move file around and delete script that uses /dev/urandom and create, random sized file, gzips it, moves it a couple of times to random folder and then deletes

[Emc-users] Debian Jessie kernel

2015-02-27 Thread Jim Connery
I have installed Jessie on my ASUS x200ma as Wheezy didn't play well with my new toy. I am hoping to install Linuxcnc 2.7 and I was looking around for a RT kernel and I cant seem to find one. Any suggestions? Also how long do you folks think it might be before we see “official” 2.7 and Jessie? I