RE: Window Freeze

I was experiencing a similar problem closing and switching windows while I
was using the default window manager (FWVM???). I switched to using
Afterstep and the problem went away. I tried KDE on my machine controller
system and found it would cause EMC to become unstable (coordinate numbers
jumping around and estop turning on and off without anything being run) so I
wiped the disk clean and did a workstation install and used my RT script and
now just run it with Afterstep and all is fine.

I am running KDE on my test system (no stepper controller attached) and it
seems to cause instability problem on occasion, but on this machine I can
live with it. I like the KDE interface, but it seems like it needs to mature
a little.


Tim
[Denver, CO]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darrell Gehlsen [mailto:darrell@...]
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 11:20 PM
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com
> Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Window Freeze
>
>
> From: "Darrell Gehlsen" <darrell@...>
>
> That was it. the memory size appears once in the ini file and once in the
> run script.
> Now all I have to do is find out how to cure the problem that I have with
> the windows freezing up. At some point, I can no longer switch between
> windows unless I click on the task bar at the bottom of the
> screen. At that
> point I can not close a window either. The only thing that I can
> do is find
> the process number and kill it to close a window. The problem
> seems to start
> if I open more than three windows.
> Darrell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <stratton@...>
> To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 9:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] rtpatch
>
>
> > From: stratton@...
> >
> > > From: "Darrell Gehlsen" <darrell@...>
> > >
> > > I finally got the rtpatch loaded and downloaded the Aug 30
> EMC file from
> > > Tim's web site. I also downloaded Matt's 64stepper.ini and
> run.64step.378
> > > files and changed the 0x3F00000 line to 0x1F00000 for my 32
> meg system.
> > > Everything seemed to install no problem but when I ran run.64step378,
> the
> > > computer locked up and it looks like I will have to turn the power off
> to
> > > get it back.
> >
> > It appears twice in the file... did you get both?
> >
> > Also, did you pass the appropriate memory size to the kernel
> > with lilo? (does /etc/lilo.conf show a memory parameter?)
> >
> > Chris
> > (whos first attempt hung, too)