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EMC running at last!

Posted by Clint Bach
on 1999-11-02 06:14:03 UTC
It has been a long and hard battle with rtlinux and emc but I may have
finally won the battle! The trick seems to be (for me!) to copy rtlinux
and linux both to /usr/src. Symbolic links would not work for me
somehow. I know not why.

I have one last hurdle (or maybe only a few more hurdles!). I do not
have the computer hooked up to an actual machine yet and I can't get the
estop to reset. I presume the system thinks I have hit a limit switch
or something. The axis fonts are red... Not the green of a ready to go
system. I presume there is a place to tell the program how to behave
but I don't know where that is. I would guess in the emc.ini file. I
will be running a stepper motor system with limit switches. The machine
is already up and running with AHHA controls but I haven't made a new
cable for the parallel port to convert to emc yet. I predict that will
be the easy part. I want to check out emc before I actually connect the
machine.

Suggestions anyone?

Clint Bach

Discussion Thread

Clint Bach 1999-11-02 06:14:03 UTC EMC running at last! Jon Elson 1999-11-02 10:38:49 UTC Re: EMC running at last! Ian Wright 1999-11-02 12:39:02 UTC Re: EMC running at last! Clint Bach 1999-11-02 10:23:34 UTC Re: EMC running at last! Dan Falck 1999-11-02 18:30:21 UTC Re: EMC running at last! Dan Falck 1999-11-02 19:21:09 UTC Re: EMC running at last! Matt Shaver 1999-11-02 19:41:41 UTC Re: EMC running at last! Dan Falck 1999-11-02 20:50:14 UTC Re: EMC running at last! Clint Bach 1999-11-03 02:55:10 UTC Re: EMC running at last!