Complete HOW-TO Linux Mint 18.1 32/64 RTAI or PREEMPT with RIP install or deb

This is my Dmesg output, I had to upload it to pastebin, the forum claimed it had too many links in it.

pastebin.com/geN7NiLS

Hey Chris!

Sorry you are running into trouble.

I have not tried that kernel version you compiled. Let's see if we can narrow this down a bit.



Are you using an intel processor? Is this a virtual machine?

I'm using an Asrock motherboard with a built in j3355 dual core Intel Celeron processor. It's not a virtual machine either.

The standard Wheezy ISO runs perfectly. I tried the 4.9.4 kernel as well. Will try to use the 4.8 kernel this week and report back here.

Okay so kernel 4.8.11-rt7 works perfectly. Neither of the 4.9 kernels worked for me at all.

Thanks for all the help and the great guide that you provided though! I'll be sure to inquire here again if I have other issues.

Glad you got it to work for you Chris,

Are you up and running Linux mint now, if not there is a testing live cd with debian stretch here.

www.linuxcnc.org/testing-stretch-amd64-rtpreempt/

You could try this install as well. I do find that Linux Mint has the best out of the box experience of the other distros.

I had a go with Mint KDE, and got linuxcnc running, however, I switched to Ubuntu Gnome for the big touch screen friendly buttons and on screen keyboard.

Are any of the Linux Mint desktop packages well suited to touch screens?

The Debian Stetch image seems tempting, if not a little unstable?