Re: preferred version of EMC

Jeeze, thats not real encouraging to hear.

thanks

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, "Terry L. Ridder" <terrylr@b...>
wrote:

> hello;
>
> actually, the problems you describe are problems
> with rtlinux and not emc. rtlinux has a nasty habit
> of getting "stuck" in the one of the linux kernel's
> lowest level interrupt routines and not being able
> to get out of it. the reason the keyboard and mouse
> go dead is that there is absolutely no way to service
> their interrupts. the same is true of xwindows. the
> video card is not having it's interrupts handled while
> rtlinux is stuck in an infinite loop. xwindows appears
> to have "hung" or "crashed". the unintended motions
> and jerks are also caused by rtlinux spending too much
> time in the lowest level interrupt routines.
>
> everything you describe is traceable right back to
> rtlinux. been there, done that, still debugging it.
>
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Jon Elson wrote:
>
> r_fl_z@h... wrote:
>
> r_fl_z>
> r_fl_z> What is the preferred version of EMC for kernel 2.0.36 ?
> r_fl_z>
>
> jon>
> jon> Many people are not going to like this, but I am still using

the

> jon> 20-DEC-1999 version. I have tried a number of early 2000
> jon> versions (Mar and JUN, I think) and found serious problems with
> jon> them. Unintended motions, jerks, crashes of the Xwindows
> jon> environment or killing the interrupt system (keyboard and mouse
> jon> go dead). I wanted to get the backlash compensation stuff
> jon> in there, but the one (June?) that had that fixed would hang up
> jon> the system VERY often.
> jon>
> <snip>
> jon>
> jon> Jon
> jon>
>
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