(superseeded) Linuxcnc on Linux Mint 19.3 quick and easy installation

Thank you Mike, that is a good enough process for me to sort through. Much appreciated.
My Linux skills are rusty, but somehow my Vi skills come back to my fingertips from 1999

Gerrit

tommylight wrote:

Added:
wget http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/li...-1~bpo10+1_amd64.deb
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sudo gdebi linux-image-5.4.0-0.bpo.4-rt-amd64_5.4.19-1~bpo10+1_amd64

Hi all,
After a 14h retrofit session from scratch to done I’d like to tell you that the kernel mentioned above lead for our hardware to latency of 5 to 10ms (and Mesa watchdog did bite) while with a 4.19-rt kernel from same page it was dimensions better and now it runs smoothly.

Regards Daniel

I am new with CNC , usualy I used my DRO for "Manually NC".
Installed Linuxcnc Mint on a Asus EEE pc (with Intel Atom N570) without any problem and for the first step I have contact with my new bought 7I76E card.
Thanks Hans

Super simple thanks Tommy, I now have an Odroid H2+ running RT_PREEMPT with quite acceptable latency for a Mesa card straight out of the box.

The only thing required to get the Odroid going was to install the network driver via a USB stick with gdebi as its new hardware (2.5gb)

For some of the main distros to have PREMPT_RT packaged is a sign its gaining acceptance.

tommylight wrote:

rodw wrote:

For some of the main distros to have PREMPT_RT packaged is a sign its gaining acceptance.

It is being used a lot by the audio enthusiast community and quite some professionals, so i am not worried it will be gone anytime soon.
You can do stuff on a crappy PC with audio mixing and production that would normally require a lot of zeros on the price tag.

Yes and also by BMW I think and others for automotive. So its here to stay.

I have a very nice Avid FastTrack Duo connected to a microphone in my office that is not supported in Linux that kinda broke when I tossed out Windows. Audacity works but I could not get sound to a video call the other day so we had to use a phone... Well WhatsApp anyway. Maybe I'll try upgrading to preempt-rt and see if it helps