Can't get my spindle to turn on

Yeah, did that. Nada though. I am 1000% sure my relay is on pin 17/Output 1 on the Gecko, because I can boot back into Mach4 and it's working and triple checked that's how it's configured.

Welllll, I don't think I can because I believe they have done away with XMLs with Mach4. I think mach3 was the end of XML profiles . I copied my whole profile folder to a thumb drive but stepconfig didn't want to read anything in there.

I also opened linuxcnc and pulled up the HAL monitor and could see the output on parallel port pin 17 flip true/false as I turned the spindle on, so the program definitely THINKS it's flipping the bit, but it's not getting to the Gecko! So strange!

I quadruple checked again in my Mach4 config and indeed Spindle On Is pin 17, and the spindle definitely works, complete with relay click. This is a real head scratcher

I would check if the signals and pins get high as they should. I usually try to debug with haushoch here:
linuxcnc.org/docs/html/hal/halshow.html
Also I would try to manually set pin 17 to high with
Halcmd
linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man1/halcmd.1.html

I would be something like:
halcmd setp NAMEOFPIN high

If it is linked these should come an error and you can try toggle the signal:
halcmd setp NAMEOFSIGNAL high

This would also error if everything is connected correctly

Sorry that i don‘t put in the signal and pin names from your hal, but I can‘t open hal files on the device I am working right now

tommylight wrote:

tommylight wrote:

Can you try changeing this line in hal
loadrt hal_parport cfg="d000 out"
to
loadrt hal_parport cfg="0xd000 out"
and
setp parport.0.reset-time 1000
to
setp parport.0.reset-time 5000
What does
sudo lspci -v
in a terminal say ?

Same thing.

Sudo lspci -v dumps a ton of stuff out. Regarding the PP it says oxford semicondrocut LTD device c110. Io ports at d000 size 8 and d008 size 4. Kernel drive parport_pc