Re: EMC problems

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

Fred,

Don't give up yet, one of the experts will get you going (I'm not an
expert).
To run from the command line open a command console and type the
following, without the quotes of course.

"cd /usr/local/emc"
(changes to the emc directory)

"./emc.run"
(this will start emc. notice the leading dot slash)

This will use the emc.ini file. If you were to type "./generic.run" you
would be using the generic.ini file. Running this way will show any
errors in the console window which you can report back with here.

Not sure if the version you downloaded has the mem buffer problem fixed
or not.  Ray??

Bill

>
> I installed from the EMCBDI.IMG file downloaded from the linuxcnc site
about
> 3-4 weeks ago. I thought it would save me the effort of having to know
> anything about linux. How wrong I was.
>
> I am running everything from the icons, simply because I din't know how or
> what to run from the command line.
>
> I have to admit that I have not wanted to know anything about linux, and
may
> in fact abandon the project if the I can't get this up & running soon. I
will
> simply have to tell the client to go buy something off the self.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Fred
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "William Scalione" <wscalione-at-nc.rr.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <emc-at-nist.gov>
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:28:14 -0500 (EST)
> Subject: Re: EMC problems
>
> >
> > > OK, I have managed to resolve one of my issues.
> > >
> > > The mouse turning into a fussy square.
> > >
> > > Resolution: Replaced video card.
> > > It would seem that whilst Linux reported the correct card during
> > > installation, it wasn't working properly. Subsequently, we replaced it
> > and
> > it
> > > is now functioning. Linux even correctly identified the monitor during
> > the
> > > instal process.
> > >
> > > EMC_General still freezes after altering the period=000016 to 000050.
> > > Although I haven't yet tried changing any other parameters as mention
in
> > > earlier postings.
> > >
> > > EMC_Mini still doesn't even start.
> > >
> > > I am not really bothered that these two groups won't run, as I am
using
> > the
> > > EMC_Run, and it seems to be running not to bad all things considered.
> > >
> > > I am a virus expert(MCSE) and am having some problems coming to grips
> > with
> > > this Linux bug :-).
> >
> > Fred,
> >
> > What version of EMC are you using? Did you use the
> > BDI Disk? The early version of the BDI had a bad
> > problem with locking up but that has been fixed.
> >
> > When you start emc, where do you start it from?
> > do you click on an icon on the desktop or start from
> > a command line? By starting it from the command line
> > you will see some error messages if EMC does not
> > start.
> >
> > Bill
> >
>