7i77 testers wanted

Dont know about the pncconf stuff but the I/O pins (the 32 inputs and 16 outputs that comprise the field I/O) require the field power to be present at startup or the HAL pins wont be there

The analog out / drive enables / encoders only need the 5V (from 5I25 or external connection)

Thanks Peter i wasn't sure about that.

Ok I have found and error.
PNCconf is misspelling the analog output enable pin.
In your HAL file look at line 63.
says something like
net x-enable hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.1.analogout0

change it to :
net x-enable hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.1.analogena

then try the config again .... please

Thank you both PCW and cmorley for your patience and input.

I changed the line in the HAL file and applied power to the field power input and LinuxCNC starts up without errors. Using HAL meter I am now able to track encoder counts on that axis. In case you're still interested I'm attaching the ini and hal files but I'm not sure I used an acceptable attachment format for this forum so we'll see if they go through.

Progress! I'm going out of town tomorrow but hopefully I'll make a bunch more progress next week. I'll invariably have more questions so I hope you'll still be available at that point. Thanks again.

I am glad we got some positive progress!

Glad you've stuck with it - now i can fix those bugs.
at some point I would like to find out what the errors were when you did an openloop test....

Chris

I will get you details of the errors from the open loop test when I get back.

I pushed some fixes to 2.5 buildbot so the enable pin is spelled right.

I'm back and I went ahead and tried the open loop test again immediately as soon as I got back here. With 12V field power applied to the 7i77, I got no errors in the open loop test dialog. However, I got no voltage out of any of the pwm outputs when I pressed the plus/minus jog buttons. I fooled around with some other things and permanently wired the field power to 24VDC. I ran PNCConf again and found that I get the error again when I press the axis enable button. Attached is a screen cap of that error. I then updated LinuxCNC to get your new updates but I found that I still get the same error when I press the axis enable button in the open loop test dialog. I'm not sure what changed that caused me to get the error. I get a "following error" when I try to use the jog button in axis.

thank you for the report.
If you run PNCconf from a terminal it will give more specific messages to why this happens.

probably a HAL name spelled wrong

Yeah looks like it's a different version of the same problem -
XML 7i77 TXData3 SMARTSERIAL-P2-TX
XML 7i77 RXData3 SMARTSERIAL-P2-RX
XML 7i77 TXData2 7i77 sserial #2
XML 7i77 RXData2 SMARTSERIAL-P1-RX
XML 7i77 TXData1 7i77 sserial #1
XML 7i77 RXData1 SMARTSERIAL-P0-RX
XML 7i77 TXData6 SMARTSERIAL-P5-TX
XML 7i77 RXData6 SMARTSERIAL-P5-RX
XML 7i77 TXData5 7i77 sserial #5
XML 7i77 RXData5 SMARTSERIAL-P4-RX
XML 7i77 TXData4 7i77 sserial #4
XML 7i77 RXData4 SMARTSERIAL-P3-RX
hm2_5i25.0.encoder.03
<stdin>:12: Pin 'hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.1..analogena' does not exist
insmod: error inserting '/usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/linuxcnc/scope_rt.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
<commandline>:0: exit value: 1
<commandline>:0: insmod failed, returned -1
See the output of 'dmesg' for more information.
loadrt scope_rt failed

two periods on the analogena pin?.. Perhaps not. I don't know what's screwed up here.