Re: User list: More info wanted

["Steve Carlisle" <quatsein-at-island.net>]

Ed, thanks for the info. I was under the impression
it was a 486. The 586 processor is well documented.

Steve

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Okerson <eokerson-at-fw.telenic.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <emc-at-nist.gov>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: User list: More info wanted


>
> The 486 install was a generic BDI 2.09 install.  The VGA card I ended up
> with is the CLVGA542XVL/H VESA Local Bus Rev 2.0.  It has the CL-GD5429
chip
> with 1 Meg of video ram.  The processor was replaced with an Evergreen 586
> upgrade chip, so /proc/cpuinfo now reports it as AuthenticAMD Am5x86-WT
> running at 66.36 bogomips.  To make it easier to try different video
cards,
> I ran linuxconf and under Miscellaneous services, then Initial system
> services, set the default runlevel to 3.  This will prevent the system
from
> trying to start X on boot.  You can then run Xconfigurator (in
> /usr/X11R6/bin) or the old standby xf86config (in the same place) to set
the
> video card you have installed, the run startx to try it out.  Many cards I
> tried would cause the system to go off into la la land, so it would be a
> power down, change card, power up, fsck, start over with xf86config cycle,
> and with this slow of a machine, that is why it was important to set the
> runlevel to 3.  Once I found a card that worked with X, everything else
was
> standard EMC config file edits.  I am running with steppermod.o with the
> current setup, but plan to try out the others when I get my new table
built
> as those steppers have encoders on them.  Speaking of that, the link for
the
> home built feedback board at http://www.mcs.net/~kulaga/dro.html is a dead
> link, is there a new place to find this info?
>
> Other than that, it just takes patience as the startup and loading of
> programs is slow, but it drives the steppers just fine once the code is up
> and running.
>
> Ed Okerson
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Carlisle" <quatsein-at-island.net>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <emc-at-nist.gov>
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 9:48 PM
> Subject: Re: User list: More info wanted
>
>
> >
> > Ed, Have you documented your 486 install procedures? I for one would
> > like to know more on that subject.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ed Okerson <eokerson-at-fw.telenic.net>
> > To: Multiple recipients of list <emc-at-nist.gov>
> > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 5:51 PM
> > Subject: Re: User list: More info wanted
> >
> >
> > >
> > > The first machine I installed EMC on was a Compaq Presario 1925 laptop
> > > Celeron 400Mhz.  It is running Linux kernel 2.4.4-rtl, with the
rtlinux
> > 3.1
> > > patches.  I tweaked at it for a few days to get EMC to run.  The sole
> > > purpose of installing it on this machine was so I could take it to the
> > Robot
> > > Power Lunch meetings of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group
> (www.dprg.org)
> > to
> > > demo EMC running in simulation mode.
> > >
> > > After I got that running, I dug an old machine out and built it up to
> run
> > a
> > > small mill I am building from scratch.  It is an exercise to see how
low
> I
> > > can go for a complete mill.  The PC has an old 486 motherboard (VLB)
> with
> > an
> > > Evergreen P133 upgrade chip.  It is running BDI 2.09 with no problems
so
> > > far.  The hardest thing about this machine was finding an old VGA card
> > that
> > > would work with X Windows.  This machine is connected to a Dan Mauch
> > stepper
> > > driver board mounted in a SCSI drive case (great little power supply).
> > The
> > > X-Y table is built from the remains of two old Microtek flat bed
> scanners.
> > > I have yet to add a Z axis (I am open to suggestions on how to do
this),
> > but
> > > a pen mounted over the table traces patterns on paper exactly as I
would
> > > have expected.
> > >
> > > Ed Okerson
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Matt Shaver" <mshaver-at-erols.com>
> > > To: "Multiple recipients of list" <emc-at-nist.gov>
> > > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 1:53 PM
> > > Subject: Re: User list: More info wanted
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Dave Engvall wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > In addition I would like to know how many users are running on
> > non-intel
> > > > > platforms.
> > > >
> > > > If possible I'd like to know:
> > > >
> > > > Type of computer (PC, Sun workstation, VME, PDP-8 :o), etc.):
> > > >
> > > > Operating System Name & Version (Linux2.2.18/RTL3.0, Win98,
> > > > SunOS5,lynxos, vxworks, irix5, etc.):
> > > >
> > > > Have you made any code changes that are not in the CVS?
> > > >
> > > > Are you using the rcslib for anything other than the EMC?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Matt Shaver
> > > >
> > > >
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