RE: Slack Install

["Pete Cook" <pete.cook-at-alltracorp.com>]

Seems I jumped the gun... Ran EMC on my home computer on wednesday - several
times - and everything worked just fine... On thurday is chokes - something
wrong with the rs274 interpreter - won't load...

I may have to start from scratch again...

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> Brian -
>
> Slack install seems to be working just fine on my machine at home -
> integrated motherboard and everything else SiS chipsets. (I
> have heard that
> this is a bad type of board to use...) I am using fvwm95 for
> my desktop at
> present - have to learn to set it up now...
>
> Tried copying from that computer to my Dell laptop at work (6
> months old )
> and reconfigured X but it kept giving me the message that it
> couldn't open
> the lock file. Reinstalled Slack and all the packages I
> thought I needed and
> then installed your EMC tarballs - It worked - until I tried
> to exit X - the
> computer locked up and the screen slowly goes to white...
>
> I am going to try copying it to my kids computer at home
> (networked) and see
> how it behaves.
>
> Several Questions -
> Which ???.run do I need to work with steppers?
> Has EMC been written so that the actual output code can be
> written in an
> installable module?
>     what I am thinking of is this - can I install EMC and
> then just change a
> single module at run time to run with servo or stepper
> without having to
> recompile the whole of EMC? This would make it easy and
> faster to work with
> different hardware.
> Pete
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