Mesa 7i96 and LinuxCNC 2.8 PnCConf

cmorley wrote: One problem with reading the runtime pins is that only tells you about _what is_ rather then _what can be_.

I think that the output lists the software modes available, so it is possible to conceive of the wizard loading and unloading the driver with a different process data mode each time.

This will not capture the hardware data modes, but you could reasonably expect the integrator to have configured that to suit their purposes.

PCW wrote: Yes, that is a RTAI kernel and RTAI verison of linuxcnc, it wont work with the 7I96

Took me a few weeks and a lot of swearing and reinstalling on different machines but now I know why I got the segmentation fault.
The error disappears when you sudo or run the mesaflash command as root.

You don't need sudo for Ethernet card access, what you do need is the latest
mesaflash (using sudo may just give the broken mesaflash version rights to corrupt memory it doesn't own)

I think this needs to be built from source _AND_ don't build master...
Checkout 3.3 before building, master does not have the 7I96 support

PCW wrote: I think this needs to be built from source _AND_ don't build master...
Checkout 3.3 before building, master does not have the 7I96 support

Does that need fixing?

I dont know whats involved to get the latest mesaflash 3.3 changes merged into mesaflash master. Whether there even needs to be a development version of something so basic is also an open question

PCW wrote: You don't need sudo for Ethernet card access, what you do need is the latest
mesaflash (using sudo may just give the broken mesaflash version rights to corrupt memory it doesn't own)

I have two mesaflashes now, one from the repositories and one I build from the source at github.

The repo one:
The one I build from github.com/micges/mesaflash

Both mesaflash bins give me the segmentation fault.

I can not find the version you keep referring to. Where is this magical mesaflash hidden?
Btw: I am using the master-rt repo as I want 2.8 pre.

btw2: When I check the repositories there is just one mesaflash: