Moschip 9815CV
I have a monster computer I built with about 2K worth of new hardware, graphics, i7, etc, nice machine
I am also open to getting to know a newer system if it will perform better
Your system is way over what is required, I assumed you must be running an old PII or PIII to be using Ubuntu 6!
I own a sherline 2010 8 direction mill
That appears to be a normal sherline 3 axis mill with a sort of turret arrangement.
Now the reason I use EMC2 is b/c sherline told me that it's perfectly configured for their mill
Sherline have not updated their software and configs for years, giving you someting based on Ubuntu 6 is like selling you a Windows95 based system
However there are sample configs for sherline mills and lathe in all the more recent distros of Linuxcnc.
You need to get your parport working before you can get anywhere.
I would suggest that as a compromise for now, you download the Ubuntu 10.04 based distro and install it onto another partition on your computer.
THEN run lspci -vv
(You can either send it to a file or just cut and paste off the screen if necessary, just need to see the output)
Once you get that sorted we can assist change the configs you have been given or to modify the sample ones
regards
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There are "standard" Sherline configs included with all Linuxcnc installs, some of them are quite old, and may need minor updating to work with the newer versions Linuxcnc. Different ones can be installed and loaded via the config picker. Once you find/make a configuration you like, you can create a launcer icon on the desktop that can open the linuxcnc config you want directly instead of going through the config picker.
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Here are the pix, 1938 is EMC2, the one I use. 1939 is the other one that is created when I go into stepconfig wizard. 1939 is the one I do not want to use, 1938 is. The interface that is.
Thank you,
John
1938 is the Mini screen interface, 1939 is the "standard" interface used most in Linuxcnc called Axis. To change interfaces, use a text editor to edit the ini file for your config.
Change the line that is:
DISPLAY = axis
to:
DISPLAY = mini
That will change the interface of your new config to the one you were used to.
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Thanks,
John
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John
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Very warm thanks to all,
John
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Anyway, I'm going to install this to my machine and mess around now that I know what I'm doing
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sherine's manuals say that they use ubuntu lucid v6.00
Lucid is 10
Dapper is 6
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Version 6.0 (for computers that come with Ubuntu Linux and EMC2 (Also for versions supplied by Sherline on CD with 8760 driver box)
.html version
.pdf version (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to open)"
Apparently this is the one I have. So is this the version of Ubuntu that I just downloaded? Ubuntu 10.04 linuxcnc3-i386.iso
I am very confused about this. They are calling it Lucid Build. Is that Lucid Lynx? If so, then this is an up to date version, no?
Thanks,
John
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