Parallel Port Tester
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" Waiting for component 'PortTest' to become ready" a bunch of dots and than halcmd: I also get a new blank window called PortTest.,
Does anything else work?
Can you run Axis using one off the sim configurations?
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- Tonico
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I had not treid to actually run Axis and I just tried. Adter I select a configuration I am supposed to click "OK". The problem is either I am going blind or I can't see any "OK" anywhere.
I am starting to get a feeling that something went wrong during the creation or install of the LiveCD.
If I don't get any other suggestions I have already created a new CD using the Linux box rather than Win. I will just reinstall from scratch and see what happens. In the original install I did not run the MD5SUM. This time around I have already checked the fresh down load of the iso and it is correct. I am in the process of figuring out how to check the actuall CD.
Being a newbie at Linuc makes every single step a PITA but I will get there.
Thanks
Tony
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Well... I have found that running the latency test from the dropdown menu will not do anything even if running it from the command line works all day long.
I had not treid to actually run Axis and I just tried. Adter I select a configuration I am supposed to click "OK". The problem is either I am going blind or I can't see any "OK" anywhere.
I think you have a graphics problem.
wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Troubl...oting#Display_Issues
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- BigJohnT
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Do you have the latest LiveCD? the file name should be ubuntu-10.04-linuxcnc3-i386.iso (note the 3 after linuxcnc).
John
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What I suspect you are doing is running the latency test from the realtime testsuite that I showed you and not the one from LinuxcncI have found that running the latency test from the dropdown menu will not do anything even if running it from the command line works all day long.
Open a terminal and type latency-test and if you cannot run it from the menu, it should not run from there, but it will give you error messages to say why.
Post them here.
Then from the terminal type emc and with a mouse highlight axis from the sim section.
Then press [Enter] on the keyboard, linuxcnc should start with that config.
If you get errors post them.
As you are not displaying widgets (no buttons on config chooser and blank window with parport tester) I am wondering if python is installed properly ( or maybe bwidgets.)
regards
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- Tonico
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Thank you so much to everybody that helped.
have a great week end
Tony
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The PortTester have a problem.
He "understand" all signals on the port not equal than LinuxCNC.
He understand even the signals from a PS/2 configured LPT port.
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from lspci -v I have:
07:04.0 Communication controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9815 Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 2P0S (2 port parallel adaptor)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 20
I/O ports at 1110
I/O ports at 1118
I/O ports at 1120
I/O ports at 1128
I/O ports at 1130
I/O ports at 1100
Kernel driver in use: parport_pc
In ptest.hal i tried changing
loadrt hal_parport cfg="0x378 out"
to:
loadrt hal_parport cfg="0x1110 out"
and then
loadrt hal_parport cfg="0x1120 out"
and got no response with the tester with either of those addresses.
The port tester worked fine with the 0x378 address for the on-board port.
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