Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers.

2014-06-02 Thread rayj
Could be good for step training, too! Often considered using one for trampoline, but reason prevailed. Same footwear advice applies. Raymond Julian Kettle River, MN The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failur

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers

2014-06-01 Thread Jon Elson
On 06/01/2014 04:54 PM, toolznglue wrote: > Where would one find these alternate interfaces for EMC? I’m running a > Sherline mill using EMC 8.something and Hardy Heron on a Sony PCG-F430 > computer with 256 megabytes of memory. So far, it’s been running great using > the Axis interface. Has any

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers

2014-06-01 Thread andy pugh
On 1 June 2014 23:54, andy pugh wrote: > If you have a HOMING_SEQUENCE entry for every axis in the INI file a > "home all" button will appear. Sorry, I misremembered: HOME_SEQUENCE http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config/ini_config.html#sub:AXIS-section -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers

2014-06-01 Thread andy pugh
On 1 June 2014 22:54, toolznglue wrote: > Where would one find these alternate interfaces for EMC? You just need to change the entry in the INI file to choose a different interface. > Has anyone modified the Axis interface to have a “home all” button for the > manual mode? I If you have a HOMI

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers

2014-06-01 Thread toolznglue
Where would one find these alternate interfaces for EMC? I’m running a Sherline mill using EMC 8.something and Hardy Heron on a Sony PCG-F430 computer with 256 megabytes of memory. So far, it’s been running great using the Axis interface. Has anyone modified the Axis interface to have a “home al

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers.

2014-06-01 Thread jrmitchellj .
You can run most versions of linux without the overhead of the gui by starting the system in run level 3. The gui usually starts in run level 5. You then have to figure out how to control LinuxCNC, maybe from a remote computer (I think some users have done this). Ray --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmit

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers.

2014-06-01 Thread Jon Elson
On 06/01/2014 07:33 AM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: > I guess that should work. I really don't know about basic GUIs but is it > possible for the keystick gui to run in the command line enviroment? > The original keystick was totally command-line, using ncurses, I think, for screen updates. You nee

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers.

2014-06-01 Thread Eric Parsonage
Easy to run on older computer especially if they have metal cases. Just wear appropriate footwear. On 1 Jun 2014, at 11:57 pm, Allen wrote: > On 14-05-31 05:01 PM, dave wrote: >> Well, I really hate to admit it but my LCNC machines are running on a >> 600 Mhz Seattleboard. It's been down for t

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers.

2014-06-01 Thread Allen
On 14-05-31 05:01 PM, dave wrote: > Well, I really hate to admit it but my LCNC machines are running on a > 600 Mhz Seattleboard. It's been down for two years now. Not the > computer just the belleville stack for the tool clamp. Real bear to get > at. ... I need to bribe someone. ;-) > > Other mac

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers.

2014-06-01 Thread John Thornton
I only know that some are using Xubuntu as a light weight desktop. I assume Keystick still needs a desktop to display. I show my complete ignorance about it in this thread. http://linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum/9-installing-linuxcnc/27898-a-big-thanks-to-this-community#47502 I do plan on

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers.

2014-06-01 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
2014-06-01 7:46 GMT-03:00 John Thornton : > I assume you could install the minimal CD and pick a lighter weight > desktop then add the real time kernel... > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD > I guess that should work. I really don't know about basic GUIs but is it possib

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers.

2014-06-01 Thread John Thornton
I assume you could install the minimal CD and pick a lighter weight desktop then add the real time kernel... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD JT On 6/1/2014 5:36 AM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: > Could it be possible to use the server install of ubuntu 10.04 on an old > pc

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers.

2014-06-01 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Could it be possible to use the server install of ubuntu 10.04 on an old pc? Because that way you only install the minimal components without the GUI. I've done it before with 8.04 to have the minimum components loaded, I used to load the GUI after that, but I think that an option would be to use k

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers.

2014-05-31 Thread dave
Well, I really hate to admit it but my LCNC machines are running on a 600 Mhz Seattleboard. It's been down for two years now. Not the computer just the belleville stack for the tool clamp. Real bear to get at. ... I need to bribe someone. ;-) Other machine is a cinci contourmaster ... with a Duro

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers.

2014-05-19 Thread rayj
Thanks to everyone who replied. Sounds like if I'm willing to accept slow performance, it's just a matter of trying to load LCNC and see if it will run on a particular box. Some of the older ones mentioned are in the range of the ones I have, so there is some hope. Thanks again. Raymond Juli

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers.

2014-05-18 Thread andy pugh
On 18 May 2014 01:14, rayj wrote: > What's everyone's experience running LCNC on older computers. My lathe has been running on an old Xeon (Coppermine) 1U server for the last few years, I word fine, currently on Ubuntu 8,04 and a recent build of LinuxCNC. Looking on Wikipedia it seems that the co

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers.

2014-05-17 Thread Jon Elson
On 05/17/2014 06:14 PM, rayj wrote: > What's everyone's experience running LCNC on older computers. I'm > talking about just the basic 3 axis control. I just retired the computer on my Bridgeport mill. It was a 733 MHz Pentium III. It originally had 128 MB of memory. I had to borrow a memory

Re: [Emc-users] Running on older computers.

2014-05-17 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 05/17/2014 04:14 PM, rayj wrote: > What's everyone's experience running LCNC on older computers. I'm > talking about just the basic 3 axis control. I have several old > computers, Win 98 is functional, XP not really. Several of them have > pretty good latency numbers, so I'm exploring running

[Emc-users] Running on older computers.

2014-05-17 Thread rayj
What's everyone's experience running LCNC on older computers. I'm talking about just the basic 3 axis control. I have several old computers, Win 98 is functional, XP not really. Several of them have pretty good latency numbers, so I'm exploring running LCNC instead of an old DOS based progra