want 9 axes; STEPGEN outputs only 8 channels?

Also...

I need to install the custom UVWkins.c file for the RIP version.

when I enter:

tom@shop:~/linuxcnc-dev/configs/UVW$ sudo comp --install UVWkins.c
[sudo] password for tom:
make KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS=/usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/linuxcnc/Module.symvers -C /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-122-rtai SUBDIRS=`pwd` CC=gcc V=0 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-122-rtai'
CC [M] /tmp/tmpOmD2iU/UVWkins.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
CC /tmp/tmpOmD2iU/UVWkins.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/tmpOmD2iU/UVWkins.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-122-rtai'
cp UVWkins.ko /usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/linuxcnc/
tom@shop:~/linuxcnc-dev/configs/UVW$



comp is obviously installing at ~/linuxcnc/ instead of ~/linuxcnc-dev/ and running:

tom@shop:~/linuxcnc-dev$ linuxcnc
LINUXCNC - 2.6.0~pre
Machine configuration directory is '/home/tom/linuxcnc/configs/UVWdev'
Machine configuration file is 'UVW.ini'
Starting LinuxCNC...
io started
halcmd loadusr io started
UVW.hal:4: Can't find module 'UVWkins' in /home/tom/linuxcnc-dev/rtlib
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
...

Is there some way to force comp to install in the correct directory?

Okay JT,

I copied UVWkins.c to tom@shop:~/linuxcnc-dev/src/hal/components

I started a fresh terminal and entered:

tom@shop:~/linuxcnc-dev$ . ./scripts/rip-environment

then:

tom@shop:~/linuxcnc-dev/src/hal/components$ sudo comp --install UVWkins.c
[sudo] password for tom:
make KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS=/usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/linuxcnc/Module.symvers -C /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-122-rtai SUBDIRS=`pwd` CC=gcc V=0 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-122-rtai'
CC [M] /tmp/tmpEVJmYq/UVWkins.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
CC /tmp/tmpEVJmYq/UVWkins.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/tmpEVJmYq/UVWkins.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-122-rtai'
cp UVWkins.ko /usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/linuxcnc/
tom@shop:~/linuxcnc-dev/src/hal/components$ c

then:

tom@shop:~/linuxcnc-dev$ linuxcnc
LINUXCNC - 2.6.0~pre
Machine configuration directory is '/home/tom/linuxcnc/configs/UVWdev'
Machine configuration file is 'UVW.ini'
Starting LinuxCNC...
io started
halcmd loadusr io started
UVW.hal:4: Can't find module 'UVWkins' in /home/tom/linuxcnc-dev/rtlib
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
Cleanup done
LinuxCNC terminated with an error. You can find more information in the log:
/home/tom/linuxcnc_debug.txt
and
/home/tom/linuxcnc_print.txt
as well as in the output of the shell command 'dmesg' and in the terminal
tom@shop:~/linuxcnc-dev$


I'm still getting the stock config splash screen, and UVWkins does not exist in:

/home/tom/linuxcnc-dev/rtlib

The . ./scripts/rip-environment script does not seem to be resetting the $PATH.

More suggestions?

except that it is:

tom@shop:~/linuxcnc-dev/configs/UVW$ echo $PATH
/home/tom/linuxcnc-dev/bin:/home/tom/linuxcnc-dev/scripts:/home/tom/linuxcnc-dev/tcl:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
tom@shop:~/linuxcnc-dev/configs/UVW$

SO!

I manually copied:

~ /usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/linuxcnc/UVWkins.ko

to:

~/linuxcnc-dev/rtlib

then launched from tom@shop:~/linuxcnc-dev/linuxcnc

and AXIS has loaded. I'm still getting the stock config splash screen, but I'm going to play with what I've got and see if the kins are correct.

not a very elegant work-around, but...

If you guys have any other ideas, please post.

many thanks to JT and cncbasher

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