tjmarch wrote: If you noticed I said I started LCNC in SIM mode
There is a certain amount of confusion here due to terminological inexactitude.
There are "sim" configs supplied with LinuxCNC. These have HAL simulations of things like home switches.
There also used to be dedicated "simulator" builds of LinuxCNC, intended to be used on machines without realtime kernels.
(for example;
wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxCNC_Pure_Simulator
)
With the development of "uspace" there is now no need for a "pure simulator" build, and you can run a "uspace" build on any kernel and it will work. It may even be able to drive hardware, but probably not well.
Your dmesg output shows that the system is running a Xenomai kernel. I think that the "POSIX non-realtime" message implies that LinuxCNC has not found the Xenomai kernel, or does not know how to interact with it.
The Machinekit project is the result of a team doing an awful lot of work to make LinuxCNC run on Xenomai, and then having that work rejected by the release manager. I rather wish that hadn't happened.
