Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 30 May 2017 14:05:15 John Thornton wrote: > I hear you Gene, while I can't remember anything from 1940 for obvious > reasons I can remember things from late 50's like sledding down a road > with a rather large rock at the sharp turn a the bottom... again with > the obvious results. The

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-30 Thread John Thornton
I hear you Gene, while I can't remember anything from 1940 for obvious reasons I can remember things from late 50's like sledding down a road with a rather large rock at the sharp turn a the bottom... again with the obvious results. The one thing that Dad hated the most was loosing his memory a

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 30 May 2017 02:06:38 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 29.05.17 16:58, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Now, a fat32 file system (/boot) has no concept of making a file > > immutable that I know of, so how can I protect the kernel.img and > > kernel7.img's from being replaced by non-realtime crap fr

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-29 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 29.05.17 16:58, Gene Heskett wrote: > Now, a fat32 file system (/boot) has no concept of making a file > immutable that I know of, so how can I protect the kernel.img and > kernel7.img's from being replaced by non-realtime crap from raspian? If you don't format fat32 for any reason other th

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 29 May 2017 18:57:00 Bertho Stultiens wrote: > On 05/30/2017 12:39 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> I may have a fix to the SPI problem. There seems to be a problem > >>> in clock-setting, which me apparently have been seeing. The > >>> attached patch is very simple and works correct and so

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-29 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 05/30/2017 12:39 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> I may have a fix to the SPI problem. There seems to be a problem in >>> clock-setting, which me apparently have been seeing. The attached >>> patch is very simple and works correct and so all the time. >> And some images how it looks now :-) > > That

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 29 May 2017 17:21:58 Bertho Stultiens wrote: > On 05/29/2017 11:13 PM, Bertho Stultiens wrote: > > I may have a fix to the SPI problem. There seems to be a problem in > > clock-setting, which me apparently have been seeing. The attached > > patch is very simple and works correct and so a

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-29 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 05/29/2017 11:13 PM, Bertho Stultiens wrote: > I may have a fix to the SPI problem. There seems to be a problem in > clock-setting, which me apparently have been seeing. The attached patch > is very simple and works correct and so all the time. And some images how it looks now :-) I did see so

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-29 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 05/29/2017 10:58 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I'll build a clean SD card with all on it once I get it all debugged, >> and hopefully fixed. > > One comment, this one is failing with the newest kernel, 4.9.30-rt20-v7+. I think it is because lcnc was compiled with another kernel in mind. I compile

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 29 May 2017 01:04:09 Bertho Stultiens wrote: > On 05/28/2017 10:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > pi@pionsheldon:~ $ linuxcnc -l > > LINUXCNC - 2.8.0-pre1-2771-gdc2ff49 > > Machine configuration directory > > is '/home/pi/linuxcnc/configs/sheldon-lathe' > > Machine configuration file is '7i

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 29 May 2017 01:04:09 Bertho Stultiens wrote: > On 05/28/2017 10:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > pi@pionsheldon:~ $ linuxcnc -l > > LINUXCNC - 2.8.0-pre1-2771-gdc2ff49 > > Machine configuration directory > > is '/home/pi/linuxcnc/configs/sheldon-lathe' > > Machine configuration file is '7i

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-28 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 05/28/2017 10:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > pi@pionsheldon:~ $ linuxcnc -l > LINUXCNC - 2.8.0-pre1-2771-gdc2ff49 > Machine configuration directory > is '/home/pi/linuxcnc/configs/sheldon-lathe' > Machine configuration file is '7i90-axis.ini' > Starting LinuxCNC... > Found file(REL): ./hm2-7i90-s

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-28 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 05/28/2017 10:09 PM, Bertho Stultiens wrote: > I can also confirm that the SPI interface is running at 50MHz and not > 32MHz. This means I can, apparently, reproduce the problem. This makes no sense at all. I just added a one-liner in probe_board(), reading the cookie twice after each other.

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 May 2017 16:09:07 Bertho Stultiens wrote: > On 05/28/2017 09:20 PM, Bertho Stultiens wrote: > > Well, I'n now in the position that I can report the following: > > ... > > Starting LinuxCNC... > > Starting LinuxCNC server program: linuxcncsvr > > Loading Real Time OS, RTAPI, and HAL_LI

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 May 2017 15:29:57 Bertho Stultiens wrote: > On 05/28/2017 09:00 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Boots right up, x still busted > > I'm not running X on my pi. I wanted to keep it as simple as possible. > It already took ages to get all required dev-packages installed. And > no, I didn't i

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 May 2017 15:20:04 Bertho Stultiens wrote: > On 05/28/2017 09:00 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Boots right up, x still busted, plugged in the HD and while it > > didn't mount anything, it id'd /dev/sda1 2 & 3, which are empty, > > with one as /boot, 2 as / and 3 as swap. > > That should

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-28 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 05/28/2017 09:20 PM, Bertho Stultiens wrote: > Well, I'n now in the position that I can report the following: > ... > Starting LinuxCNC... > Starting LinuxCNC server program: linuxcncsvr > Loading Real Time OS, RTAPI, and HAL_LIB modules > Starting LinuxCNC IO program: io > Found file(REL): ./hm

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-28 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 05/28/2017 09:00 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Boots right up, x still busted I'm not running X on my pi. I wanted to keep it as simple as possible. It already took ages to get all required dev-packages installed. And no, I didn't install tex for building docs. That would've made testing a planned

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-28 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 05/28/2017 09:00 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Boots right up, x still busted, plugged in the HD and while it didn't > mount anything, it id'd /dev/sda1 2 & 3, which are empty, with one > as /boot, 2 as / and 3 as swap. That should be about right, except... I'm using a filesystem-file as swap. Bu

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 May 2017 13:20:18 Bertho Stultiens wrote: [...] > > If you could put a deb of that kernel in my inbox, I'd be delighted! > > Tarball contains /boot and /lib/modules/4.9.30-rt20-v7+ directories > (without leading /) and is about 32M in size: > http://media.vagrearg.org/rpi3-lcnc/rpi3-

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-28 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 05/28/2017 06:41 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> For the Pi, I always make a card image on my local host of the latest >> running version using: >> # dd if=/dev/sdX bs=4M | gzip > piimg-XYZ-$(date >> '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S').img.gz >> > I take it you have a rotating media attached? Well, I take the SD card

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 May 2017 10:44:46 Bertho Stultiens wrote: > On 05/28/2017 04:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > [snip] > > > I think I'd do as a previous install did, > > name the kernel and kernel7 images with unique names, and specify, > > in boot/config.txt, the kernel its supposed to boot. Then apt, >

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-28 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 05/28/2017 04:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] > I think I'd do as a previous install did, > name the kernel and kernel7 images with unique names, and specify, in > boot/config.txt, the kernel its supposed to boot. Then apt, apt-get, and > dpkg can shovel shit around in the /boot tree to thei

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 May 2017 07:53:32 Mark wrote: > On 05/28/2017 01:00 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Unforch, with that in the box, I'd have to buy another box to put > > the 7i90 and 7i42TA's in. And eventually I am out of space behind > > the lathe. Not to mention the board might be $65, but memory for

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-28 Thread Mark
On 05/28/2017 01:00 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Unforch, with that in the box, I'd have to buy another box to put the 7i90 and 7i42TA's in. And eventually I am out of space behind the lathe. Not to mention the board might be $65, but memory for it, and a psu that might fit in this nice new box, and

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 27 May 2017 23:42:17 Todd Zuercher wrote: > - Original Message - > > > And people wonder why I run plumb out of patience. 2 steps fwd, slip > > and > > 6 steps back. Sigh... I see the light at the end of the tunnel and > > it > > runs me over. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > >

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-27 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 27.05.17 22:50, Gene Heskett wrote: > And howinhell do I lock a kernel version, The one thing for version pinning that I have on record is: sudo apt-get install linuxcnc=1:2.6.0~pre~joints.axes3~6a281a6 (Substitute your package name and version, naturally.) I think I'd alias that to a short

Re: [Emc-users] the saga of gene vs pi's continues

2017-05-27 Thread Todd Zuercher
- Original Message - > And people wonder why I run plumb out of patience. 2 steps fwd, slip > and > 6 steps back. Sigh... I see the light at the end of the tunnel and > it > runs me over. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- You've the patience of Job. I'd have pitched that Pi in the rubbi