Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] BDI Screen resolution & update rates?

Ian,
Thank you!
No luck with XF86 - wasn't installed and I didn't manage to install it
:-( but Xconfigurator did the trick. Now I have a much better screen to
look at :-))
Back to EMC, I see there are three different EMC icons, emc_generic, emc_run
& emc_sim. What's the differnce and which should I use to run steppers?
And one more:
How does the homing work in EMC? Does it move one axis untill the home
switch trips, then back it up away from the switch and on the next axis? I
wonder because I need to know how to hookup the switches.

Thanks again!
/Henrik Olsson. Sweden.

----- Original Message -----

> Hi Henrik,
>
> It sounds as though you have some incompatibility between the video card
and
> the monitor or, hopefully, it just hasn't set itself up properly. You can
> try using XF86Setup which is on the CD if it hasn't installed already
> (first, open the terminal window and type XF86Setup. If it's installed,
you
> should get a window up which will allow you to try various combinations of
> display card, display memory and monitor settings. If not, use the file
> manager to browse to /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS and find the XF86Setup.xxx.rpm
> and click on it. This will then install it). Another way is to use
> Xconfigurator - similar instructions. If the monitor is an old one or a
type
> which is not on the 'automatically supported' list of hardware, you may
have
> to put in the horizontal and vertical refresh rates manually into the
boxes
> in XF86Setup. You can also set up the default screen resolution here and
> check that it works before you commit yourself. If you find, however, that
> you screw up the display, you can reboot the machine and type 'linux
single'
> at the Lilo prompt which will just take you to a very basic prompt level
and
> you can then run XF86Setup again from there. Hopefully this won't be
> necessary....;O)
>
> Ian
> --
> Ian W. Wright
> Sheffield UK
> www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk