Installation EMC on kubuntu 9.4/9.10

Who can describe in detail how this can be done?

Everyone who knows how to make this work seems to be pretty "hush-hush" on the subject. I figure that if it can run on other linux builds, there should be no issue with it running on 8.10 or 9.04. It just might take a little work.

I have been experimenting with trying to get it working on 9.04, but the results have been mixed. I have managed to get the kernel patched and compiled, rtai and emc2 compiled, but it errors out shortly after selecting the type of machine to run.

It gives an error in the debug info stating that it had an incorrect symbol in a particular file. I am not currently at the machine I have been testing all this out on, and will post the exact message that is spit out.

What it appears to be, from my newbish perspective, is some issue with the version of RTAI that I used. I don't know if there is any problems with using RTAI 3.7.1 and EMC2 2.3.4.

All in all, I would still consider it a success on my part since I have never had to compile a kernel before. Let alone patch, compile, and compile some more in order to make the application run. I'm pretty sure that it isn't something to do with messing something up. It is also possible that some of settings for compiling the kernel may be the culprit.

If anyone would like, I can at least outline the things that I did do to get to that point. Maybe a collaboration can be made to overcome the issue I stumbled on.

GAH!

I had an outline with everything I had done up to this point. Several paragraphs worth with links, details, and pretty formatting. I apparently took too long writing as I lost it all when I hit submit and lost it all due to a time out on my login.

I guess I'll have to start over.

Thanks for the information.

thank you my friends

Who knows what this may mean. Trying to run emc2. ubuntu 8.4
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What do you get when you run the following in the terminal?

If it says rtai anywhere in there, then chances are that you have do have an rtai patched kernel, but maybe the rtai application is having the issue. I get an insmod error, like you, but mine is the following:

I have no idea what this means, because I recompiled a whole new kernel with the settings listed in the middle link above for an earlier version of ubuntu. I was getting an insmod error before recompiling everything from fresh sources, but I was getting "Unknown symbol in module". Yours lists the rtai_hal.ko as the file is question and then the rtai kernel module not being able to be loaded.

Once again, I am not sure what it all means, but I pretty sure someone else might be able to better answer that. I, too, am looking for the reason why I can't get it to work. I've compiled a new dang kernel and supporting programs close to a dozen times now with no luck. Either I have a setting wrong or I'm just messing something up along the way. I would like to hope that it's simply a slight incompatability between the versions I used, but I'm probably not that lucky.

From the first capture it looks as though RTAI is failing to start up and causing EMC2 to crash. My guess is that this is caused by using an onboard graphics chip or proprietary drivers for your graphics card.

When the code "uname-a" I get the following-"Linux rustam-desktop 2.6.24-16-rtai # 1 Tue Sep 30 22:54:33 EEST 2008 i686 GNU / Linux
"What does it mean?

You can read more about the integrated graphics chips and the proprietary drivers? How can I do?