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Took a while to stop laughing and be4 able to reply .... to a degree ..
Well i had the opposite experience the first time over, had the machine working with LinuxCNC in about 5 minutes, while it me the whole day to figure out why the demo version of Mach can not work with a parallel port on winXp, turned out winxp problem as it had no direct access to ports before the service pack 1 or 2, then there is the issue of being able to set it at 45 KHz and it wont care that the pulses can not get to the port due to high latency, so you end up with parts that look nothing to what is on scr....... that very small f.... window !
Here you go, plenty of working parallel port stuff on path pilot:
www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=GlP-X...ZGCP4Q4dUDCAY&uact=5
.... i hope.

Have you had a look at linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/gui/qtdragon.html

Grbl has its uses, but also limits of course. I wrote GrblPanel to make use of it for a while on a cobbled together machine.
I will be using PP 2, with a 7i92. The BOB is PMDX-132 so this weekend making the wire jumble to satisfy both ends of the connectors. I didn't want to make my own .bit files and also want to keep changes to a minimum.
The machine I am building is fixed gantry, of similar envelope to the PCNC440, waiting an eternity for some bearing hangers......

Re: probe-basic, and a whole bunch of others to show it in use. Also if you understand German (or use the subtitle/auto-translate feature)

Bats, I think you have to run a regular column. Your posts make me laugh.

I have to say I am really over Windows. Lugged an old laptop with WIn7 on it to work today so I could configure my Lam stepper drivers and wasted a good 2 hours chasing driver installations and my tail... I had forgotten what it was like...,. I've mostly been using a Chromebook for the last few years. Or Linux Mint. The good thing about Linux Mint is it has let me dig deep into the Linuxcnc source. Hopefully I will work out enough to get some cool stuff into master branch...

rodw wrote: Lugged an old laptop with WIn7 on it to work today so I could configure my Lam stepper drivers and wasted a good 2 hours chasing driver installations and my tail...

Read your other post about this and was wondering why, now i know, those drives were made for XP and never really changed, so on Xp it takes about 3 minutes to setup.
@GerriTV
I did see those videos, the second one is good as he was impressed with it and ditched the mach3/4 and some other software he was using, he does sell cnc stuff and machines, but rarely mentions that on his videos, just his web site.

I turn my back on you guys for one night, and what happens? Suddenly I need to write... [dramatic CHORD!] An anthology reply!

tommylight wrote: Here you go, plenty of working parallel port stuff on path pilot:
www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=GlP-X...ZGCP4Q4dUDCAY&uact=5
.... i hope.

I'd seen a lot of (well, some of) those threads before - although it did turn up a couple I'd since lost track of - including the link to buy PathPilot. Skimming through them did raise some new questions, though - it sounds like the 2.x versions dropped support for (or just ceased to include? I'm [strike]a little[/strike] a lot fuzzy on the details) a bunch of the realtimey stuff that I'd thought was more or less essential for parport/software stepgen... or does that only apply when installing PP directly, rather than switching an existing linuxCNC install to use PP as a GUI? (Or is that even possible? Too many questions. I may just have to start working with one of the 2015 walkthroughs & see how far I can get before things break)

phillc54 wrote: Have you had a look at linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/gui/qtdragon.html

Apparently the list of GUIs I was working from is dreadfully incomplete. No, I hadn't seen that one either. It certainly looked promising - can't go wrong with dragons - but it looks like it requires >1440x900, and I'm running on an old 1280x1024 screen. It actually hadn't even occurred to me to wonder whether the other GUIs might have a problem with that, too (and, yeah, looks like Probe Basic wants 1920x1080... no wonder it looked like they could fit so much more stuff on the screen than GmocAxis)

gerritv wrote: Grbl has its uses, but also limits of course. I wrote GrblPanel to make use of it for a while on a cobbled together machine.

I didn't really mean to knock Grbl. Well, not entirely. Between Mach3 & LinuxCNC there was actually an interim period with an OpenBuilds BlackBox that was pretty nice, but plagued by interference from the VFD, no matter what I tried to enclose or shield. I've also got an xPro v3 that lets me control a little toy Taig lathe with just an old tablet, which would be extremely challenging with any of the software stepgen setups, so it definitely has a place. It's not really something I want to run this system on, though... RF aside, it always feels a bit like I'm operating a machine with thick gloves at the end of long sticks manipulated by carrier pigeons.

gerritv wrote: Re: probe-basic, [...] and a whole bunch of others to show it in use. Also [...] if you understand German (or use the subtitle/auto-translate feature)

Unfortunately my German vocabulary is pretty much limited to 80s/90s industrial lyrics, and auto-translate is tending toward the abstract... "yes - nancy human stale surface and it all looks somehow shitty" or "he is now my god and therefore no longer want a head"... but I guess what I was wondering was whether it makes sense for someone who isn't (at least presently) going to be doing much probing. Although that's probably something of a moot point, as phillc inadvertently pointed out. At least until I decide to invest in a new monitor.

rodw wrote: Bats, I think you have to run a regular column. Your posts make me laugh.

Funny, my therapist said the same thing. Something about deflecting conversation away from my problems

rodw wrote: I have to say I am really over Windows. Lugged an old laptop with WIn7 on it to work today so I could configure my Lam stepper drivers and wasted a good 2 hours chasing driver installations and my tail... I had forgotten what it was like...,..I've mostly been using a Chromebook for the last few years.

Hardware without actively maintained driver support is always going to be a nightmare on any platform... I've got a laser printer that requires an XP print server because no one bothered to provide drivers for later versions of Windows or linux. Win7 was actually the first (and, from the looks of things, the last - 8 was iffy, and I don't do Software As A Service) MS OS that I found functional enough to use almost exclusively.

A Chromebook isn't really a fair comparison though, as it doesn't have to support the vast range of hardware and peripherals (and software, for that matter) that a full PC does. Also, call me old fashioned, call me paranoid, or call me an old fashioned paranoiac sipping an old fashioned while listening to Black Sabbath's Paranoid, but I've never been comfortable just trusting everything to The Cloud (or to Big Google) in the way Chromebooks like to... although I did very nearly throw my [strike]wallet[/strike] ideals to the wind and buy a Pixel Book a few months back anyhow.


-Bats