Hi Alex On Friday 01 December 2006 18:33, alex wrote:
My understanding was that EMC version of BDI doesn't have HAL layer. I may be wrong.
A brief history of the version of EMC on the BDI disk for you - I was asked to produce an updated BDI CD to replace the original BDI-2 disk that had been around for a number of years. At the time, I was working on stripping down the core libraries that emc2 uses along with the build system (in conjunction with a couple of other people).. emc2 was a long way from being ready for anything, so I took the parts of EMC that were known to work along with the build system & library from emc2 and made a few changes so that the whole lot would compile with a 2.6 series kernel. The 2.6 kernel support eventually making it's way back in to the main emc2 development tree. The plan was to migrate over to emc2 when it had moved from being "proof of concept" to stable - Neither goals have yet to be met, and if anything, the code has become more unstable and the build system is now so fragile, even small changes will cause it to fail. Since emc2's fork from Sourceforge, the developers involved appear to target umbuntu installations and ignoring any other Linux distribution. [Side note] Ubuntu is based on Debian's testing branch (bugs'n'all) while the BDI-4 uses Debian's stable branch (still with a few bugs), so both share a common root. Despite the best efforts of <..>, emc2 will compile on a BDI-4 install, and if you have the latest CD, emc2.0.4 is included - You will need to install it manually and run it from the command line though.. To install any additional package from the CD, you can use Synaptic and click on 'Edit->Add CD-ROM' before selecting emc2. If you prefer the command line: sudo apt-cdrom add sudo apt-get install emc2 The "adding of CD-ROM" only needs to be done once, should you want to install any other package, go straight to the "install" stage. Regards, Paul.