Tool length sensor and touch probe with Mesa7i76e

andypugh wrote: Freeze on M6 is typically that the system has set tool-change and is waiting for tool-changed to be set when the tool change is complete.

It isn't frozen, so much as waiting to be told that the tool change is finished.

Hi Andy, thanks for the response, I am using Probe Screen, and it should do a move to the Tool change position before waiting for the tool change, however, it is not moving and there is no prompt to acknowledge a tool change

The probe-screen instructions say to comment out the tool-change stuff. I don't know if it is meant to replace them with something, or what.
What do the Probe Screen docs say on the subject?

Yes is does say to comment out Manual tool change lines in all Hal files

Delete (or comment out) from all .hal files lines of the form:
#loadusr -W hal_manualtoolchange
#net tool-change iocontrol.0.tool-change => hal_manualtoolchange.change
#net tool-changed iocontrol.0.tool-changed <= hal_manualtoolchange.changed
#net tool-number iocontrol.0.tool-prep-number => hal_manualtoolchange.number

it then adds them back in, in a post-gui.hal, which then says they are in a probe_screen.hal. I was wondering if the dash in the post-gui should be an underscore post_gui

# this settings were moved to probe_screen.hal:
#net tool-change probe.toolchange-change <= iocontrol.0.tool-change
#net tool-changed probe.toolchange-changed <= iocontrol.0.tool-changed
#net tool-prep-number probe.toolchange-number <= iocontrol.0.tool-prep-number

net tool-prep-loop iocontrol.0.tool-prepare <= iocontrol.0.tool-prepared

Also, the probe_screen.hal file is located in the icons directory, I did try copying it to the machine config directory.

I also, did some manual changes to get the probe to work with linucCNC 2.8 with the changed references to Axis and joints.

[strike]Uncomment them in the postgui.
At the moment you have both versions commented.[/strike]

Or look in probe-secreen.hal, anyway.

andypugh wrote:
Or look in probe-secreen.hal, anyway.

Yes, they are uncommented in the probe-screen.hal, which is located in the probe_icons folder, there is another copy of the probe-secreen.hal in the probe_icons_1024x768, which also has them uncommented. Is it an issue if these lines appear in multiple places?

Yes, if they are in multiple places then there is a good chance that some of the HAL is erroring out.

Start your config from the command line and see what the output says.

(command "linuxcnc")