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Islander261 came through for me in the HAL thread. I'm going to test these out now.

TOMMY!!! My man, got Toma 95% running, just need to make the rest of the connections to negotiate the THC to the Mesa board that Andy pointed out weren't there.

Testing out Islander's modified files now. Might try commenting out the problem areas on the THC.hal and trying to wire it in directly to the machine HAL... I have little idea of how to do it but trial and error is better than sitting around with my thumb up my ass.

Snuggly

Pretty sure all thc.hal to mesa card connections are there. Post any error messages from terminal and or screen. Don't change anything until you make sure that the correct signals are on the correct pins on TB3. Then check signals with halshow or halmeters to figure out correct polarity for the inputs.

I have to make a delivery to another island this afternoon while the weather is holding so I won't be back until after supper time. Collect error messages and logs then post.

John

This bit in thc.hal seems to be a missing part. I think with such a complex hal file, you need to implement all of it.

I think if you wire in the estop switch, you'll get an error on the LimitZ line , maybe it should look like thist I'd have a good look at what Tommy did in his mesa config. here..

Getting a weird error "DOS-style line endings" in my INI file. I'll see if I can remedy this in notepad++

Starting LinuxCNC...
Starting LinuxCNC server program: linuxcncsvr
Loading Real Time OS, RTAPI, and HAL_LIB modules
Starting LinuxCNC IO program: io
emc/iotask/ioControl.cc 768: can't load tool table.
Starting HAL User Interface program: halui
Found file(REL): ./Hays_Plasma.hal
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
Killing task linuxcncsvr, PID=1541
hm2: loading Mesa HostMot2 driver version 0.15
hm2_pci: loading Mesa AnyIO HostMot2 driver version 0.7
hm2: unloading
Removing HAL_LIB, RTAPI, and Real Time OS modules
Removing NML shared memory segments

Debug file information:
inifile: warning: File contains DOS-style line endings.
inifile: warning: File contains DOS-style line endings.
inifile: warning: File contains DOS-style line endings.
inifile: warning: File contains DOS-style line endings.
inifile: warning: File contains DOS-style line endings.
inifile: warning: File contains DOS-style line endings.
inifile: warning: File contains DOS-style line endings.
inifile: warning: File contains DOS-style line endings.
inifile: warning: File contains DOS-style line endings.
inifile: warning: File contains DOS-style line endings.
inifile: warning: File contains DOS-style line endings.
./Hays_Plasma.hal:4: Warning: File contains DOS-style line endings.
inifile: warning: File contains DOS-style line endings.
Note: Using POSIX realtime
hm2_pci: rtapi_app_main: No such device (-19)
./Hays_Plasma.hal:8: waitpid failed /usr/bin/rtapi_app hm2_pci
./Hays_Plasma.hal:8: /usr/bin/rtapi_app exited without becoming ready
./Hays_Plasma.hal:8: insmod for hm2_pci failed, returned -1
1541

Snuggly

I checked the files I sent at this end and they definite used Linux line endings (0x0A). Don't know what may have happened along the way. Open files at your end with Ghex and check for correct Linux line ends (0x0A) and not DOS ones (0x0D 0x0A). I think that something else is going on given the tool table error.

John


John

I got it, Mousepad has a converter built in to go from DOS to Unix. Also, I didn't notice that I had to modify:
loadrt hm2_pci config=" num_encoders=0 num_pwmgens=0 num_stepgens=4"

^ which was just my fault.

So linuxcnc loads up fine but I'm still getting that inconsistent Arc-OK so I'll be tracking down that problem here in just a minute. Wanted to give you guys an update so you weren't trying to figure something out that way entirely my fault.

I still haven't gotten the Proma 150 in test mode to actually move the Z axis up and down at all, and I can still jog the Z axis. Minimum modifying of the files to my machine.