ColorCNC Colorlight 5A-75E/5A-75B as FPGA controller board

juergenmoser
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3 years 9 months ago #261129 by juergenmoser

Replied by juergenmoser on topic ColorCNC Colorlight 5A-75E/5A-75B as FPGA controller board

@TOLP i tried to install litexcnc yesterday with the original ISO LinuxcncBuster 2.8.0 and i can‘t get it to work. So I tried the excellent manual from tommylight (I think)to install mint21 (for me no worries because i run the tests on a virtual machine) with linuxcnc2.9 - and it all works like a charm! The only thing what you have maybe to install is „pip“ and maybe „git“ after that you can install litexcnc very easily! Thanks again for the help!

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3 years 9 months ago #261167 by DePrutser

Replied by DePrutser on topic ColorCNC Colorlight 5A-75E/5A-75B as FPGA controller board

I'm trying to follow the steps in README.md from github.com/Peter-van-Tol/LiteX-CNC
I get this error on the first step on my arch linux system:

[cedric@cedric ~]$ pip install litexcnc
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement litexcnc (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for litexcnc
[cedric@cedric ~]$ uname -a
Linux cedric 6.0.11-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 02 Dec 2022 17:25:31 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Next I try the same command on my linuxcnc installation:

$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip
$ pip3 install litexcnc
Collecting litexcnc
Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: pypi.org/simple/litexcnc/

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
$ pip install litexcnc
Collecting litexcnc
Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: pypi.org/simple/litexcnc/
$ uname -a
Linux virt-cnc 4.19.0-21-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 4.19.249-2 (2022-06-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 10 \n \l

What am I doing wrong?

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3 years 9 months ago #261169 by TOLP2

Replied by TOLP2 on topic ColorCNC Colorlight 5A-75E/5A-75B as FPGA controller board

@DePrutser: at this moment litexcncis not yet available on the official PyPi.org. The pre-release is available at test.pypi.org. To install it, please use this command:

Code:

pip install --extra-index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ litexcnc[cli]

I will update the README.md to show the correct command. For documentation, please refer ReadTheDocs .

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3 years 9 months ago - 3 years 9 months ago #261186 by juergenmoser

Replied by juergenmoser on topic ColorCNC Colorlight 5A-75E/5A-75B as FPGA controller board

@TOLP - Hello again - So the Litex drivers are already installed - also a board 5a75b v8.0 is flashed - (and ping went good) when I try halrun -> loadrt litexcnc i get this error

Code:

cnc@cnc-LIFEBOOK-E744:~$ halrun
halcmd: loadrt litexcnc
Note: Using POSIX realtime
litexcnc: dlopen: /usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules/litexcnc.so: undefined symbol: json_object_array_length
<stdin>:1: waitpid failed /usr/bin/rtapi_app litexcnc
<stdin>:1: /usr/bin/rtapi_app exited without becoming ready
<stdin>:1: insmod for litexcnc failed, returned -1
halcmd: exit
Note: Using POSIX realtime

So i think when i reinstall the litex_driver i can see that the position250 is the board name? is there a maximum lengh maybe? (I Only Uses 6 letters....)

Code:

  250 |         rtapi_snprintf(fpga->name, sizeof(fpga->name), json_object_get_string(board_name));
      |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Code:

My System:
[code]Linux cnc-LIFEBOOK-E744 6.0.0-6-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_RT Debian 6.0.12-1 (2022-12-09) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

LinuxCNC Version
2.9

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3 years 9 months ago #261196 by TOLP2

Replied by TOLP2 on topic ColorCNC Colorlight 5A-75E/5A-75B as FPGA controller board

I have to check, did you use:

Code:

litexcnc install_driver

or (in case of permission denied error)

Code:

sudo litexcnc install_driver

If this is the case, I have to dive into the code. At this moment I cannot verify this, as I'm rebuilding my system, will be Monday to have this done.

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3 years 9 months ago - 3 years 9 months ago #261199 by juergenmoser

Replied by juergenmoser on topic ColorCNC Colorlight 5A-75E/5A-75B as FPGA controller board

I‘ve done it with sudo (so that everything goes to $PATH) No worries - I have time!

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