Converting a 7i76e config to 7c81/7i76 pair

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2 years 2 months ago #308819 by acondit
Couple more questions/observations
I see this line in both the 5i25 .hal file and the 7i76e .hal file
sets spindle-at-speed true

Is sets correct or should it be setp?

In the 5i25 configs it starts the x-axis with stepgen.05
but in my 7i76 config it starts the x-axis with stepgen.00
What should I use with the 7c81 configs?

To answer your last question, yes
it reports boardname 7c81
9k gates
FPGA pins 144 and the rest of the info looks good to me (10 stepgens)

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2 years 2 months ago #308820 by PCW
Is the 7I76 connected to P1?
Did you check the stepgens?
 (stepgens on P1 would be 0..4)

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2 years 2 months ago #308826 by acondit
Yes, the 7i76 is on P1 on both the 5i25 and the 7c81.

I ran pncconf on the 5i25 again. I don't know what I did earlier but now the stepgens are back on 0..2. So, obviously I screwed up something earlier.

What about the "sets" vs "setp" in
" sets spindle-at-speed true"

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2 years 2 months ago #308837 by PCW
sets is for signals, setp is for pins and parameters
spindle-at-speed is a signal so sets is appropriate

 

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2 years 2 months ago - 2 years 2 months ago #308856 by acondit
I updated my amd64 from linuxcnc 2.9.0pre to 2.9.2. (same thing I’m running on my rpi4). Then I ran pncconf on the 5i25 config. Interestingly linuxcnc would not run until I commented out the first few “[HMOT](Card0).7i76…” lines.
I’ll try editing the config again with pncconf to be sure it is not just some dumb mistake on my part.

Try turning on the cnc power dummy!!!
Last edit: 2 years 2 months ago by acondit. Reason: Answer my own dumb question

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