Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-20 Thread Neil Baylis
Although they recommend against it, you can actually edit the grub.cfg file just as you previously edited the menu.lst file. If you subsequently do update-grub, your changes will be overwritten. Neil On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.net wrote: On Sat,

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-19 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 04:49:35PM -0500, Dave Christman wrote: On 12/18/2010 4:05 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 18 December 2010 20:55, Kirk Wallacekwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: A common problem with the install script is that the original Linux will boot instead of real time Linux. It

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-18 Thread Dave Christman
On 12/17/2010 3:18 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2010/12/17 Dave Christmanmail4da...@gmail.com: On 12/15/2010 8:45 AM, Jeff Epler wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 04:48:39PM -0500, Dave Christman wrote: I get an error every time I open axis with a machine that is configured in stepconfig in inches.

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-18 Thread andy pugh
On 18 December 2010 18:36, Dave Christman mail4da...@gmail.com wrote: CNC EMC2 was not to be found under the Applications pulldown menu What happens if you type emc at the command prompt? -- atp Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-18 Thread Dave Christman
On 12/18/2010 1:51 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 18 December 2010 18:36, Dave Christmanmail4da...@gmail.com wrote: CNC EMC2 was not to be found under the Applications pulldown menu What happens if you type emc at the command prompt? I am not very familiar with Ubuntu or unix. If you mean from the

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-18 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2010/12/18 Dave Christman mail4da...@gmail.com: On 12/18/2010 1:51 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 18 December 2010 18:36, Dave Christmanmail4da...@gmail.com  wrote: CNC  EMC2 was not to be found under the Applications pulldown menu What happens if you type emc at the command prompt? I am not very

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-18 Thread Dave Christman
On 12/18/2010 3:14 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2010/12/18 Dave Christmanmail4da...@gmail.com: On 12/18/2010 1:51 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 18 December 2010 18:36, Dave Christmanmail4da...@gmail.com wrote: CNC EMC2 was not to be found under the Applications pulldown menu What happens if you

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-18 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 15:36 -0500, Dave Christman wrote: On 12/18/2010 3:14 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: ... snip Save the file, right click and in permissions and mark allow execution of file or something similar. Then doubleclick on it - it should ask for Your password and automagically

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-18 Thread andy pugh
On 18 December 2010 20:55, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: A common problem with the install script is that the original Linux will boot instead of real time Linux. It should be possible to see which kernel has booted with uname -r If you don't see -rtai at the end of the

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-18 Thread Dave Christman
On 12/18/2010 4:05 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 18 December 2010 20:55, Kirk Wallacekwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: A common problem with the install script is that the original Linux will boot instead of real time Linux. It should be possible to see which kernel has booted with uname -r

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-18 Thread andy pugh
On 18 December 2010 21:49, Dave Christman mail4da...@gmail.com wrote: The response to uname -r from the terminal window is 2.6.32-26 generic. What is a grub, and how do I beat it up? Grub is the boot utility which chooses the kernel to start up with. You can probably press a magic key at

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-17 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2010/12/17 Dave Christman mail4da...@gmail.com: On 12/15/2010 8:45 AM, Jeff Epler wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 04:48:39PM -0500, Dave Christman wrote: I get an error every time I open axis with a machine that is configured in stepconfig in inches. [...] EMC2 - 2.3.0 version 2.3.0 is quite

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-16 Thread Dave Christman
On 12/15/2010 8:45 AM, Jeff Epler wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 04:48:39PM -0500, Dave Christman wrote: I get an error every time I open axis with a machine that is configured in stepconfig in inches. [...] EMC2 - 2.3.0 version 2.3.0 is quite old (20 months or so) and its version of

[Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-15 Thread Dave Christman
I get an error every time I open axis with a machine that is configured in stepconfig in inches. Works fine when I config machine in mm. What am I doing wrong? The error is: EMC2 terminated with an error. When reporting problems, pleas include all the information below in your message.

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-15 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 04:48:39PM -0500, Dave Christman wrote: I get an error every time I open axis with a machine that is configured in stepconfig in inches. [...] EMC2 - 2.3.0 version 2.3.0 is quite old (20 months or so) and its version of stepconf had a large number of bugs. Please

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-15 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 12/14/2010 02:48 PM, Dave Christman wrote: I get an error every time I open axis with a machine that is configured in stepconfig in inches. Works fine when I config machine in mm. What am I doing wrong? The error is: Thanks for sending out the error message! Many programs - including

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-15 Thread andy pugh
On 15 December 2010 14:34, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote: So the reason it won't start up is that it can't find the ini file you specified. How do we specify an ini file? I have never quite figured out if it is derived from the folder name, whether the startup dialogue scan for

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-15 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 12/15/2010 07:42 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 15 December 2010 14:34, Sebastian Kuzminskys...@highlab.com wrote: So the reason it won't start up is that it can't find the ini file you specified. How do we specify an ini file? I have never quite figured out if it is derived from the folder

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-15 Thread andy pugh
On 15 December 2010 15:41, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote: There are three ways that I know of to pick the config file: shell emc    Start the pickconfig config picker. Presumably this lists all ini files in the config tree? Depending on how Dave is starting EMC2, it would seem

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-15 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
andy pugh wrote: On 15 December 2010 15:41, Sebastian Kuzminskys...@highlab.com wrote: There are three ways that I know of to pick the config file: shell emc Start the pickconfig config picker. Presumably this lists all ini files in the config tree? Depending on how Dave

[Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-15 Thread Dave Christman
On 12/11/2010 02:56 PM, Dave Christman wrote: I get an error every time I open axis with a machine that is configured in stepconfig in inches. Works fine when I config machine in mm. What am I doing wrong? While making further changes and experimentation, I noticed that any file that I

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-15 Thread Alex Joni
As Jeff already said your version is pretty old. The bug (space within filename) is part of stepconf, and has been fixed a long time ago. You should _really_ upgrade your emc2 version. Especially since you are starting fresh, so you won't have to bother with config changes from version to

[Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-11 Thread Dave Christman
I get an error every time I open axis with a machine that is configured in stepconfig in inches. Works fine when I config machine in mm. What am I doing wrong? -- Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native

Re: [Emc-users] inches or metric

2010-12-11 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 12/11/2010 02:56 PM, Dave Christman wrote: I get an error every time I open axis with a machine that is configured in stepconfig in inches. Works fine when I config machine in mm. What am I doing wrong? If you don't tell us what the error is, it's very, very hard for us to guess what's