Re: [Emc-developers] steppermod under RTAI?

[Robin S. <li...@re...>]

On Thursday 16 October 2003 13:28, re...@up... wrote:
> Robin
>
> I was listening in on the IRC but a possible solution to your problem did
> not come to me until much later last night.  Will Shackleford built a
> knoppix disk that used RTL and would run steppermod.  I tested this install
> on most all of my computers at home and it seemed to work well.  It had a
> ton of extra stuff but once installed to a hard drive could be stripped
> down to a manageable system.  I believe that Paul has/had one of these
> disks.

Hi ray,

Thats an interesting idea ... I'm not entirely certain of the differences 
between knoppix and morphix as used on hte 'live' discs ... 

I was going to write a little about 'I will have another go with RTL, its 
giving some compile errors'  but since then I managed to make the box 
available over the 'net via an ssh tunnel and that nice Mr Corner logged in 
and sorted the kernel compile out[1] and after a bit of fiddling with the emc 
makefiles (hint: its tricky to compile the vti ISA stuff when your kernel has 
no ISA support ;) .. its all seemingly sorted :) 

There was a small buggette with findutils the Paul found and corrected, and I 
have a copy of the kernel config .. http://www.quacky.co.uk/~robin/rh9_rtl/ 
should any of you ever need such a thing

I even found a supplier of cheap PCI  parport cards (on eBay ! ) and they 
seem to work as well, supported by parport_pc.o [2] so its looking good so 
far .. yet to actually move a machine with it .. but I'm hopeful.

[1] Thanks Paul!
[2] at the moment I'm having to do a setpci -s <device> 0x0010.L = 0x0278 etc 
to set the address of the card .. if anyone knows what to write in the 
appropriate RH9 file to make this happen I'd be graetful .. it in rc.local at 
the moment .. I guess It should be in /etc/hotplug/pci  ... 
> Ray
>
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 22:37:38 +0100, emc...@li... 
said:
> >On Wednesday 15 October 2003 17:08, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> >> before I go to the trouble of installing RH9 and RTAI, can someone
> >> confirm whether or not steppermod is working under RTAI, I heard a
> >> rumour that it wasn't and would ratehr not do a full RH9 install with
> >> RTAI just to find out ...
> >
> >thanks to kind person IRC,  I can now tell you that steppermod is
> > apparently broken under rtlinux .. ho hum
> >
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