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Hi, I have installed Linuxcnc and when I open the application I get an error.

I am using LINUXCNC - 2.5.3 on a UBUNTU 10.4 System.

I am totally new to Linux and cnc stuff but would like to use your Application.

If you can help I would be grateful. As I am retired and am not familiar with all the Computer speak, if possible help in the form of plain english would be of great help.

I dont think theres enough information in those files to determine why linuxcnc wont start.

can you post a kernel log here?

you do this by typing in a terminal window:

dmesg > dmesg.txt

and then posting dmesg.txt here

Thank you for a quick response. I hope the attached file is the one you want.
I typed in a terminal window dmesg>dmesg.txt and it returned file not found. New to this system.
Thanks anyway, iano

you need spaces between the three command line arguments:

dmesg (SPACE) > (SPACE) dmesg.txt

I trust that this is the file you require,
Yours Ian

Well that's it but its not offering any clues
It does look a bit like this error:

www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum...inated-with-an-error

It may be that Axis can't start because it cannot access a GL screen.
From a terminal windiow, try running glxgears. If you get a window
that shows some colored, spinning gears, then I'm totally off base.
If you get an error message, that would indicate your video
card and driver combination is not supporting OpenGL, the 3-D
rendering package that Axis needs. You could try changing the
GUI to Mini or TKLinuxCNC by editing the line in the configs/<something>/xxx.ini
file that you have chosen. But, Axis is good, so it may be a better
choice to find out why OpenGL doesn't work and get the right
video driver set up so it does work.

Jon