Re: Display and scale

[Ray <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Ian

The propensity of my system to crash must be more contageus that that foot
in mouth (which I get every so often) if it can be transmitted as text
that you have to type in.  If that other company only knew that they could
bring Linux to its knees so easily.

Are you using tkemc?  If so, I can send you a first attempt at a fix that
makes the system a little bit more stable.  

Ray

On Sun, 04 Mar 2001, Ian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks, I think I have it sorted at last. When I first entered the valuse
> from your .ini file Ray, the machine just went black and rebooted itself -
> most unhelpful! But, after about half an hour of messing with the file and
> repeatedly waiting an interminable time while linux checked the hard drives
> during reboot, I managed to get it so that the machine just locked up!
> Progress....
> Of course, I still had to reboot each time and wait while it went through
> the checking drives bit but, at least, I felt a bit more in control. It took
> another 3/4 hour or so to get things stable and a further half hour to
> calibrate the settings so that a commanded move of 100mm now moves 100mm
> (well 100.02 to be exact but I've yet to tighten up a bit on backlash which
> might make a difference)
> Is there any way that EMC can be made to simply report errors (like 'Setting
> out of Range') rather than simply dying and taking the computer with it?
> 
> Ian