I'm figuring from your reply that the motenc interface board is supported only by the RTAI kernel. So I went back to the download page and looked at the instructions for downloading Debian 10 Buster RTAI. The instructions contained a link to documentation describing downloading the RTAI kernel, which I followed. The getting and installing of the RTAI kernel seemed to go correctly. I restarted the machine and clicked Applications -> CNC -> LinuxCNC as in previous trials. The application failed again, but with different error messages, which is progress. One of the assignments in the RTAI kernel documentation was to verify the machine booted the RTAI kernel. I didn't know how to do that verification but from reading the error messages it looks like indeed after restart the computer came up under the RTAI kernel.
I would like to attach the error file but don't see how to, so I'm going to copy it into this reply.
Error report created by /usr/lib/tcltk/linuxcnc/show_errors.tcl:
Print file information:
RUN_IN_PLACE=no
LINUXCNC_DIR=
LINUXCNC_BIN_DIR=/usr/bin
LINUXCNC_TCL_DIR=/usr/lib/tcltk/linuxcnc
LINUXCNC_SCRIPT_DIR=
LINUXCNC_RTLIB_DIR=/usr/realtime-4.19.195-rtai-amd64/modules/linuxcnc
LINUXCNC_CONFIG_DIR=
LINUXCNC_LANG_DIR=/usr/lib/tcltk/linuxcnc/msgs
INIVAR=inivar
HALCMD=halcmd
LINUXCNC_EMCSH=/usr/bin/wish8.6
LINUXCNC - 2.8.4
Machine configuration directory is '/home/robert/linuxcnc/configs/by_interface.vitalsystems'
Machine configuration file is 'motenc.ini'
INIFILE=/home/robert/linuxcnc/configs/by_interface.vitalsystems/motenc.ini
VERSION=1.1
PARAMETER_FILE=motenc.var
TASK=milltask
HALUI=
DISPLAY=tklinuxcnc
COORDINATES=X Y Z
KINEMATICS=trivkins
Starting LinuxCNC...
Starting LinuxCNC server program: linuxcncsvr
Loading Real Time OS, RTAPI, and HAL_LIB modules
Starting LinuxCNC IO program: io
Found file(lib): /usr/share/linuxcnc/hallib/core_servo.hal
Found file(REL): ./motenc_motion.hal
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
Removing HAL_LIB, RTAPI, and Real Time OS modules
Removing NML shared memory segments
Debug file information:
insmod: ERROR: could not insert module /usr/realtime-4.19.195-rtai-amd64/modules/linuxcnc/hal_motenc.ko: No such device
./motenc_motion.hal:4: exit value: 1
./motenc_motion.hal:4: insmod for hal_motenc failed, returned -1
See the output of 'dmesg' for more information.
1181
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components
Kernel message information:
[ 81.889306] I-pipe: head domain RTAI registered.
[ 81.889307] RTAI[hal]: mounted. ISOL_CPUS_MASK: 0.
[ 81.889309] SYSINFO - # CPUs: 4, TIMER NAME: 'lapic-deadline', TIMER IRQ: 4355, TIMER FREQ: 436496376, CLOCK NAME: 'tsc', CLOCK FREQ: 3491913000, CPU FREQ: 3491913000, LINUX TIMER IRQ: 4355.
[ 81.916994] RTAI[malloc]: global heap size = 2097152 bytes, <BSD>.
[ 81.917026] kstacks pool size = 524288 bytes
[ 81.917027] RTAI[sched]: hard timer type/freq = lapic-deadline/436496376(Hz)
[ 81.917027] linear timed lists.
[ 81.917028] RTAI[sched]: Linux timer freq = 250 (Hz), TimeBase freq = 3491913000 hz.
[ 81.917028] RTAI[sched]: timer setup = 84 ns, resched latency = 0 ns.
[ 81.922989] USERMODE CHECK: OK.
[ 81.922990] USERMODE CHECK PROVIDED (ns): KernelLatency -1, UserLatency -1.
[ 82.047900] KERNEL SPACE LATENCY ENDED AT CYCLE: 1243, LATENCY = 2035, VARIANCE = 33761/10004569, GAIN = 843651/1000000000, LEAST = 1802.
[ 82.135457] AFTER KERNEL CALIBRATION (WITH RTAI TASK, ns): KernelLatency 582, UserLatency -1 (CALIBRATION: PERIOD 10000 (ns), TIME 212464979 (ns)).
[ 82.282734] USER SPACE LATENCY ENDED AT CYCLE: 1203, LATENCY = 2428.91, VARIANCE = 0.00352333, GAIN = 0.000880833, LEAST = 2394.
[ 82.283597] USERMODE USER SPACE CALIBRATION: OK.
[ 82.283598] AFTER USER CALIBRATION (ns): KernelLatency 582, UserLatency 695 (CALIBRATION: PERIOD 10000 (ns), TIME 148140014 (ns)).
[ 82.283599] FINAL CALIBRATION SUMMARY (ns): KernelLatency 582, UserLatency 695.
[ 82.299324] RTAI[math]: loaded, using musl libm.
[ 82.498353] MOTENC: ERROR, unknown card detected
[ 84.960423] RTAI[math]: unloaded.
[ 85.031025] SCHED releases registered named ALIEN PEDV$D
[ 85.033507] RTAI[malloc]: unloaded.
[ 85.138915] RTAI[sched]: unloaded (forced hard/soft/hard transitions: traps 0, syscalls 0).
[ 85.156159] I-pipe: head domain RTAI unregistered.
[ 85.156163] RTAI[hal]: unmounted.
Info report created by linuxcnc_info:
The file: /tmp/linuxcnc_info.txt
can be posted to a forum or a web site like:
pastebin.com
in order to provide information about the linuxcnc
system and configuration.
Date: Sat 22 Jul 2023 02:15:24 PM PDT
UTC Date: Sat 22 Jul 2023 09:15:24 PM UTC
this program: /usr/bin/linuxcnc_info
uptime: 14:15:24 up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.40, 0.22
lsb_release -sa: Debian Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 10 buster
which linuxcnc: /usr/bin/linuxcnc
pwd: /home/robert/linuxcnc/configs/by_interface.vitalsystems
USER: robert
LOGNAME: robert
HOME: /home/robert
EDITOR:
VISUAL:
LANGUAGE:
TERM: dumb
COLORTERM:
DISPLAY: :0.0
DESKTOP: lightdm-xsession
display size: 1920x1080 pixels (508x285 millimeters)
PATH: /usr/bin:/home/robert/linuxcnc/configs/by_interface.vitalsystems/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
uname items:
nodename -n: debian
kernel-name -s: Linux
kernel-vers -v: #5 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 11 19:13:27 BST 2021
machine -m: x86_64
processor -p: unknown
platform -i: unknown
oper system -o: GNU/Linux
/proc items:
cmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.195-rtai-amd64 root=UUID=b657697c-0bf8-4903-9250-3f8aee8bca89 ro initrd=/install/gtk/initrd.gz quiet
model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690 CPU @ 3.50GHz
cores: 4
cpu MHz: 3229.143
parport:
serial: 0000-0000 : serial 0000-0000 : serial
Versions:
gcc: gcc (Debian 8.3.0-6) 8.3.0
python: Python 2.7.16
git: git version 2.20.1
git commit: NA
tcl: 8.6
tk: 8.6
glade: not_in_PATH
glade-gtk2: not_in_PATH
linuxcnc_var all:
LINUXCNCVERSION: 2.8.4
LINUXCNC_AUX_GLADEVCP: /usr/share/linuxcnc/aux_gladevcp
LINUXCNC_AUX_EXAMPLES: /usr/share/linuxcnc/aux_examples
REALTIME: /etc/init.d/realtime
RTS: /usr/realtime-4.19.195-rtai-amd64/bin/rtai-config
HALLIB_DIR: /usr/share/linuxcnc/hallib
dpkg -l '*linuxcnc*':
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-===============-====================-============-=====================================================================
ii linuxcnc 1:2.8.4 amd64 motion controller for CNC machines and robots
un linuxcnc-doc <none> <none> (no description available)
ii linuxcnc-doc-en 1:2.8.4.1.gb7824717b all motion controller for CNC machines and robots (English documentation)
ii linuxcnc-doc-es 1:2.8.4.1.gb7824717b all controlador de movimiento para máquinas CNC y robots (Español).
ii linuxcnc-doc-fr 1:2.8.4.1.gb7824717b all motion controller for CNC machines and robots (French documentation)
un linuxcnc-sim <none> <none> (no description available)
rc linuxcnc-uspace 1:2.8.4.1.gb7824717b amd64 motion controller for CNC machines and robots
