mesa 5i25 and mx4660 installation and configuration

Thanks a lot for your patience!

I tried to update my 2.7.8 to 2.8.x. It seems, everything works fine, but within the testruns, there is one error. I dont know if its critical.
I append all the screenshots I made while the upgrade process.

Would this be the point to start with pncconf "again"?

Thanks and regards
Mathias

Yes it would.
Pay attention to ports and configure the one that is actualy connected to the MX, as PCW explained.

That sounds great! So the next steps are in PNCConf...

First steps and decisions:



1: If I want to have 4 stepper motors in a 3 axis gantry machine, so one axis has two synchronized steppers, should I choose XYZA?

2: I only have one Mesa 5i25. It has two ports, the db25 (outside) and another one inside. I would like to use both of them for my machine. As written in the Datasheet of the MX4660, contolling vacuum, spindle on/off and other stuff would require the second connection for more than 2 Outputs.



3: Does it make sense to check this one too?

4: I dont have preferences yet. Later on I would like to change to gmoccapy.



5: in the attached Mesa output they say 2 PWM with ClockFrequency: 200.000 MHz. Is that meant?

6: ?

7: Thats the ChargePump? What is this time out for?

8: I dont have any encoder. So this set to 0?

9: 2

10: As PCW said, 4. If I want to add for example a rotary axis later on, should I configure 6?

I hope not being unpolite asking those newbie questions.

Thanks a lot for your answers and any kind of help!
Mathias

Wow that was detailed, nice.
Do not worry to much about all that stuff right now, just make a config that is near to what you now need, stepgens and maybe input/output pins, make it work, afterwards you can edit that same config or make a new one with added stuff as often and as complikated as you like.
Once you get it going you should have a much beter understanding of what is going on and consequently make the config fit your needs.
Choose the stepgens, assign them to the axis and test it, edit some more ( it can be edited again in pncconf or manualy in leafpad or gedit or...), test again, edit again etc
Once you dive into it it gets simpler.

Thats exactly my problem. I went through pncconf, generated "a machine" but nothing happens. More precisely, the steppers doesnt do anything. Thatswhy I thought it would be nice to have at least the pncconf as good as possible to get closer to any other missconfiguration or something else.

What does the sudo mesaflash --device 5i25 --readhmid say?