Re: bdi801bin.tgz

["William Scalione" <wscalione-at-nc.rr.com>]

Ray, Paul, Tim

Ray, Paul

Thanks for the help, I got Ray's tarball running by copying the
tar file to /usr/local/ and untarring it from there. I ran the install
and overwrote all of the old stuff (original BDI) and everything
ran like a top. The only problem that I see right now is the axis
displays are smaller than they were before.

I did 3 or 4 clean/installs on the directory /usr/local/emc08-01/
and that was where I ran into the problems. Maybe it didn't like
the "-" in the directory name, who knows.

Tim

About tim's problem with the G92 or right clicking on the display
and entering a value, Mine did the same until I clicked the World
button on the right side of the display. Axis names changed from
0, 1, 2 to X, Y, Z and the display went to zero. This was while
running steppermod and in AUTO.  Axis display size was still
small though.

Thanks to all of the guys doing the work on the EMC project
I ran a program and it ran great. I'll let you know if I run into
any problems.

Bill

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>
> Bill
>
> There should be three run files already set up.  minis.run starts a
> steppermod version, minif.run starts a freqmod version, and minip.run
> starts a ppmc (Jon Elson board) version.
>
> 1 - Try minis.run and tell me what happens.  (My guess is that some of the
> error messages but not all will go away. (see below)
>
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, you wrote:
> > Ok, I have been trying to get the bdi801 bin to load
> > without much luck. Presently running original BDI.
> > Copied the 3 files to directory /usr/local/emc0801/
> > and performed the cat and untarred it. did the
> > ./install and so far everything is ok.  Go to the
> > eemc directory at /usr/local/emc0801/emc and
> > edited the emc.ini to run steppermod, commented
> > out the period parameter for freqmod and saved
> > the file.
>
> Steppermod is the active choice in emc.ini.
>
> 2 - Would you send me a copy of the edited emc.ini that you are attempting
> to run?
>
> >tried ./emc.run and it looks like everything
> > is going ok. The first time it runs I enter 3_0 when
> > it asks for the rt platform. Continues doing it's stuff,
> > when it comes to
> >
> > starting emc motion program steppermod.o - done
> > starting emc io program minimillio.o - done
> > starting emc task program minimilltask.o - done
> > minimilltaskintf.cc 962 error on axis0
> > minimilltaskintf.cc 962 error on axis1
>
> These two errors are the result of the limit polarity being reversed.
> emc.ini expects to have real limit switches connected to the limit pin.
> These will go away if you reverse the MIN_LIMIT_SWITCH_POLARITY = 0 and
> MAX_... to (1) for all of the axis definitions.
>
> > running emc display program tkemc
> > emcsh.cc 5642: cant connect to emc
>
> This one bothers me.  Are you trying to run as a common user or as root?
>
> 3 - You might try running xemc rather than tkemc as see if the result is
> different.  I don't think that xemc uses emcsh.
>
> Thanks for the feedback.  Get back to me.
>
> Ray
>
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