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Re: [Bdi4emc-help] Install trouble on a Toshiba laptop (330CDT)
by jepler＠unpythonic.net 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:31:36PM -0500, Matt Timmermans wrote: > On top of that, my new "quickstep" driver module works beautifully, and can > deliver 30000 steps/s to all axes simultaneously. It'll be in your mailbox > shortly. This sounds really neat. Can I have a copy of the source too? Does "quickstep" use special hardware, or does it really generate 60k updates/second on standard hardware? Jeff Epler jepler(a)unpythonic.net

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Install trouble on a Toshiba laptop (330CDT)
by Matt Timmermans 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

The install finds my hardware, runs /sbin/loader, pops up a picture of chips, runs for a long time, and hangs. Is there any way I can make the graphic go away so that I can see what's going on? Thanks, Matt

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excepton during install
by Thomas J Powderly 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

Hello, I had problems installing BDI4.38 today 2060213 I dloaded, checked md5sum, ok burned &booted cd ok anaconda found the kb mouse vid & crt ok got X, the penguin splash, welcome (2 or 3 minutes so far) interaction: Welcome next Language EN next Keyboard US EN next Exception Traceback (most recent call last); File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py:, line 76, in nextClicked rc= self.currentWindow.getNext() File /usr/share/system-config-keyboard/keyboard_gui.py",line49 in, in getNext self.kbd.activate() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-package/rhpl/keyboard.py", line 143, in activate executil.execWithRedirect(argv[0],argv) File "/sur/lib/python2.3site-package/rhpl/executil.py"' line50 , in execWithRedirect chilkdpid=os.fork()( OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory argv was ['/usr/X11R6/bin/setxkbmap','-layout','us','-model','pc105','-option',''] system was AMD-K6-2 166, 96meg ram , 20G hd space does all this just mean, not enuf ram? regards, tomp

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Hardware Limit Error
by jasonhwatts＠earthlink.com 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

I have a fresh install of BDI 4.38. I haven't even hooked up the machine to the computer yet and I am getting the error that says hardware limit error on axis 0,1, and 2. Nothing has even been hooked up to the computer yet how can this be. Any thoughts? Jason jasonhwatts(a)earthlink.net

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Writing a stepper driver and have a couple questions
by Matt Timmermans 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

Hi All, I'm writing a new stepper driver on BDI 4.38, so I can run my x10 microstepping Gecko drives on the P266 laptop that I have allocated to the purpose. The effort has taught me what a pain it is to get a patched kernel and EMC running from available source and information. Now that I've figured out that I don't have to patch the kernel or adeos, I can use BDI, and in thanks for all the hard work that must have gone into it, I'm willing to release the driver under GPL when it's done. Are you guys still accepting code submissions for the BDI branch of EMC? If so, what's the best way to go about that? Also a little technical question: freqmod has an empty function called freqsig(). What's that for? Thanks, Matt

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