first time trying software

Just press the print key on your keyboart and you get a screenshot.

Norbert

merry christmas.

ok, on the "print screen shot"....didn't have a printer hooked up so tried my hp deskjet 1000 J110. system identified it and knew it was on usb. would not print. got hplip-3.13.11.run download from ubuntu site. will try this to see if it will make the printer work.

on the error message.......when running linuxcnc i tried to run the script before homing the axes. it gave an error message in the lower right with a red x to close it but it wouldn't close. however i homed the axes and the script ran just fine.
the last time i got an error, when i closed the program then tried to open it again i got this:

Print file information:
RUN_IN_PLACE=no
LINUXCNC_DIR=
LINUXCNC_BIN_DIR=/usr/bin
LINUXCNC_TCL_DIR=/usr/lib/tcltk/linuxcnc
LINUXCNC_SCRIPT_DIR=
LINUXCNC_RTLIB_DIR=/usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/linuxcnc
LINUXCNC_CONFIG_DIR=
LINUXCNC_LANG_DIR=/usr/share/linuxcnc/tcl/msgs
INIVAR=inivar
HALCMD=halcmd
LINUXCNC_EMCSH=/usr/bin/wish8.5
LINUXCNC - 2.5.0
Machine configuration directory is '/home/doug/linuxcnc/configs/V90'
Machine configuration file is 'V90.ini'
INIFILE=/home/doug/linuxcnc/configs/V90/V90.ini
PARAMETER_FILE=linuxcnc.var
TASK=milltask
HALUI=halui
DISPLAY=axis
Cleaning up old LinuxCNC...
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
Waiting for other session to finish exiting... Ok
Starting LinuxCNC...
Starting LinuxCNC server program: linuxcncsvr
Loading Real Time OS, RTAPI, and HAL_LIB modules
Starting LinuxCNC IO program: io
Starting HAL User Interface program: halui
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
Killing task linuxcncsvr, PID=1486
Removing HAL_LIB, RTAPI, and Real Time OS modules
Removing NML shared memory segments
Cleanup done

Debug file information:
Can not find -sec MOT -var MOT -num 1
Can not find -sec IO -var IO -num 1
Can not find -sec LINUXCNC -var NML_FILE -num 1
Can not find -sec EMC -var NML_FILE -num 1
insmod: error inserting '/usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/linuxcnc/hal_parport.ko': -1 Resource temporarily unavailable
V90.hal:7: exit value: 1
V90.hal:7: insmod failed, returned -1
See the output of 'dmesg' for more information.
1486
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components

Kernel message information:
[ 670.711449] I-pipe: Domain RTAI registered.
[ 670.711469] RTAI[hal]: <3.8.1> mounted over IPIPE-NOTHREADS 2.6-03.
[ 670.711473] RTAI[hal]: compiled with gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) .
[ 670.711482] RTAI[hal]: mounted (IPIPE-NOTHREADS, IMMEDIATE (INTERNAL IRQs DISPATCHED), ISOL_CPUS_MASK: 0).
[ 670.711485] PIPELINE layers:
[ 670.711490] d25f4e20 9ac15d93 RTAI 200
[ 670.711493] c085cb20 0 Linux 100
[ 670.753500] RTAI[malloc]: global heap size = 2097152 bytes, <BSD>.
[ 670.753819] RTAI[sched]: IMMEDIATE, MP, USER/KERNEL SPACE: <with RTAI OWN KTASKs>, kstacks pool size = 524288 bytes.
[ 670.753825] RTAI[sched]: hard timer type/freq = APIC/16667158(Hz); default timing: periodic; linear timed lists.
[ 670.753830] RTAI[sched]: Linux timer freq = 250 (Hz), TimeBase freq = 1666866000 hz.
[ 670.753834] RTAI[sched]: timer setup = 999 ns, resched latency = 2944 ns.
[ 670.754056] RTAI[usi]: enabled.
[ 670.911004] RTAI[math]: loaded.
[ 671.107186] config string '0x378 out '
[ 671.107227] PARPORT: ERROR: port parport0 claim failed
[ 671.650182] RTAI[math]: unloaded.
[ 671.763065] SCHED releases registered named ALIEN RTGLBH
[ 671.778594] RTAI[malloc]: unloaded.
[ 671.876016] RTAI[sched]: unloaded (forced hard/soft/hard transitions: traps 0, syscalls 0).
[ 671.884619] I-pipe: Domain RTAI unregistered.
[ 671.884635] RTAI[hal]: unmounted.



today linux cnc started back up just fine without this.
last time my windows machine would not read the above file. today i changed the name to have a .txt suffix and suddenly the windows machine can read it which is why i can send it this time.

Hi,
The error message that you had regards not being able to run code when not homed, is normal and obvious when you think about it.

You can clear all such error messages with Ctrl Space

The other error was because it could not open the parport. I suspect it shut down without unloading properly and when you restarted errored.
That it then ran OK after reboot tends to prove it, so nothing to worry about.

regards