Re: [Emc-users] m5i20 Homing with index

[Gene H. <gen...@ve...>]

On Friday 22 June 2007, RogerN wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Kasunich" <jmk...@fa...>
>To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
><emc...@li...>
>Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 7:53 AM
>Subject: Re: [Emc-users] m5i20 Homing with index
>
>snip
>
>>>  I guess I just
>>> need to know if I should wait for the V2.2 driver that you fixed or
>>> if I
>>> can get hal to function like the index-enable?
>>
>> I'm not sure.  The problem I fixed (board ingoring the index pulse)
>> would normally result in EMC waiting forever to start the threading
>> pass, which is not what you described.  But I think the 2.1 driver did
>> funny things with index-enable, so maybe EMC thought it got an index
>> pulse even though the actual counts didn't reset.
>>
>> I'll look at the 2.1.6 driver either tonight or over the weekend, and
>> see what I can do.  Please be patient ;-)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> John Kasunich
>
>Thanks, I was afraid I was going to have to buy a different motion
>control board and re-wire or try to learn to create an index-enable in
>hal, the driver, or the fpga configuration.
>
>I searched around on the web last night and found something about these
>m5i20 problems being corrected in the development version.  I assume
>that is going to be the 2.2 release?
>
>Anyway, I'm going to have to get another PC to run Linux on so I can
>snoop around in the source (from the confort of the house) and see what
>I can learn.  It's difficult to stand at the machine and try to study!
>
>Thanks very much for working on this!
>
>Roger N
>
Chuckle, you could do like I did, and string a chunk of cat5 to the shop so 
you can ssh into it.  With the right ssh options you can even export the x 
session to your own comfy and air conditioned screen.  I've done it a few 
times, with the motor power off of course.
>
>
>
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