Several questions

["Joel Jacobs" <jj-at-netexp.net>]

Hi all,
I finally got EMC up and running on a Pentium 100mhz computer running
2.2.13/rtlinux-2.0.  The computer seems grossly underpowered as I can not
get the motors to run smoothly.  I had to set 'PERIOD' in freqmot to 100
before I got the GUI working.  I'm trying to decide what to do, whether or
not to try a faster computer.  It seems like a really nice program if I
could get it working but I noticed some peculiar behavior that I'm not sure
is related to cpu speed.

1. Sometimes I start it and it won't come out of estop,  I shut it down and
restart it and it may come out of estop but can't turn the machine on.
Restart again and everything turns on and I can move motors but after a
while it may stop responding to any input.  When I first installed it, it
wouldn't work at all and the coordinates display was red - I changed the
polarity of the limit and home inputs and it started to work but the input
pins on the printer port are 'open'  maybe I need to tie them low?

2. Everytime I start the program the default jog speed is 300 imp no matter
what I put in the ini file for max velocity.

3. I can't edit the settings in the calibration dialog.  I click on a
setting and then try left and right arrows to see if the carrot moves and it
may move on another field.

4. I wanted to try emcmot but I get an un-resolved 'hrgettime'.  Any clue?
It doesn't seem to be in the system.map that was created when I compiled the
rt kernel.

Thanks for any help.

Joel