Parallel Port Tester

Tried it does exactly the same thing.

Tony

Well... I have found that running the latency test from the dropdown menu will not do anything even if running it from the command line works all day long.
I had not treid to actually run Axis and I just tried. Adter I select a configuration I am supposed to click "OK". The problem is either I am going blind or I can't see any "OK" anywhere.
I am starting to get a feeling that something went wrong during the creation or install of the LiveCD.
If I don't get any other suggestions I have already created a new CD using the Linux box rather than Win. I will just reinstall from scratch and see what happens. In the original install I did not run the MD5SUM. This time around I have already checked the fresh down load of the iso and it is correct. I am in the process of figuring out how to check the actuall CD.
Being a newbie at Linuc makes every single step a PITA but I will get there.
Thanks
Tony

Hi

I have found that running the latency test from the dropdown menu will not do anything even if running it from the command line works all day long.

What I suspect you are doing is running the latency test from the realtime testsuite that I showed you and not the one from Linuxcnc

Open a terminal and type latency-test and if you cannot run it from the menu, it should not run from there, but it will give you error messages to say why.
Post them here.

Then from the terminal type emc and with a mouse highlight axis from the sim section.
Then press [Enter] on the keyboard, linuxcnc should start with that config.
If you get errors post them.

As you are not displaying widgets (no buttons on config chooser and blank window with parport tester) I am wondering if python is installed properly ( or maybe bwidgets.)

regards

As it turns out after I changed to "Vesa" drivers it all now works as advertised, not only the parallel port tester, but the latency test from the drop down menu and now when I start LinuxCNC I do have the "OK" button.
Thank you so much to everybody that helped.
have a great week end
Tony

Excuse me my terrible english.
The PortTester have a problem.
He "understand" all signals on the port not equal than LinuxCNC.
He understand even the signals from a PS/2 configured LPT port.

How would ptest.hal be modified to test an parallel port card.
from lspci -v I have:
07:04.0 Communication controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9815 Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 2P0S (2 port parallel adaptor)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 20
I/O ports at 1110
I/O ports at 1118
I/O ports at 1120
I/O ports at 1128
I/O ports at 1130
I/O ports at 1100
Kernel driver in use: parport_pc

In ptest.hal i tried changing
loadrt hal_parport cfg="0x378 out"
to:
loadrt hal_parport cfg="0x1110 out"
and then
loadrt hal_parport cfg="0x1120 out"
and got no response with the tester with either of those addresses.
The port tester worked fine with the 0x378 address for the on-board port.

That is what you have to do. But you may need to try all of the addresses listed to find the one that works. (My money is on 1128.)