Re: Slack install results -

["Pete Cook" <kf2qd-at-terraworld.net>]

It turns out there is an even easier fix - and another question to go with
it.

I thought/figured/assumed that running one of the emc scripts would also do
a startx. When run from inside X EMC works just fine. So the next question
is - can one batch file do both - startx and sim.run?

Is there any way of running EMC using the text terminal and not X?

By the way - zipslack 8 along with X and TCL and a couple aditions and then
add rtlinux and emc from Brian and the total size is just over 213MB and a
zip file of 98MB and it installs and runs in a dos partition.

Pete

>
>
> Hi Pete
>
> The run script attempts to remove any old modules that may be left over
from
> an earlier run. In the past, EMC would not shutdown cleanly and so some
> modules were left in memory - Do a Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace to kill X and then
> lsmod to see what is left in memory !
>
> A quick fix for your problem is to make a copy of generic.run and save it
as
> sim.run - Edit line 27 so that INIFILE=sim.ini.
>
> Regards, Paul.
>
>
> On Sunday 03 February 2002 12:32 am, Pete Cook wrote:
> > Brian -
> >
> > Installed the 3 tarballs and when I try to run I get the following -
> >
> > /usr/local/nist/emc
> > Current platform is linux_2_2_19
> > Current real-time platform is rtlinux_3_1
> > inivar = plat/linux_2_2_19/bin/inivar
> > INIFILE = rtsim.ini
> > RS274NGC_PARAMFILE = sim.var
> > starting emc...
> > Removing module simmod
> > ????? Why does it do this?
> > /sbin/insmod -f /lib/modules/2.2.19-rtl/misc/rtl.o
> > /sbin/insmod -f /lib/modules/2.2.19-rtl/misc/mbuff.o
> > /sbin/insmod -f /lib/modules/2.2.19-rtl/misc/rtl_time.o
> > /sbin/insmod -f /lib/modules/2.2.19-rtl/misc/rtl_sched.o
> > /sbin/insmod -f /lib/modules/2.2.19-rtl/misc/rtl_posixio.o
> > /sbin/insmod -f /lib/modules/2.2.19-rtl/misc/rtl_fifo.o
> > ????? When it looks like it wants it here?
> > starting EMC MOTION PROGRAM -- simmod.o...Warning:
> > plat/rtlinux_3_1/lib/simmod.o symbol for parameter STG_BASE_ADDRESS not
> > found
>
>