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After six weeks of doing everything wrong a few times and being graciously corrected by everyone in the community my franken-build Pi 5 debian is working very well.

I'm about to start clean and do everything as has been documented in this thread without my own improvisations which I think got me little except the motivation to learn everything necessary to fix all the things I broke.

I wanted to make sure I'm starting with the latest of Rod's builds and I think it is this from the Google-Driver:

   rpi-5-debian-bookworm-6.6.54-rt39-arm64-ext4-2024-11-06-2037_qtpyvcp_stable_networkmanager.img.xz

The one on the Downloads page is still:

   rpi-5-debian-bookworm-6.1.61-rt15-arm64-ext4-2023-11-17-1520.img.xz

I'm pretty sure I want the one from Nov 2024 instead of Nov 2023.

Is there an even newer one?


 

WooHoo - It started right up!

Thanks a bunch.

Victory! (of step 1, now I move on to step 2, building my HAL  )

I am using the Raspi build (forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...erry-pi-4b-5?start=0), but after recompiling mesaflash from git it worked flawlessly!

Thank you so much for guiding me along!

Thanks again, professor. have you had the opportunity to look for the digital copy of the thesis?
If I'll need some help I'll reach out to them. If we wont hear any time soon i wish you a happy new year.

The professors who know me and I think deal with these issues are at DIMEG.

You can go to them saying I was the one who reported them and ask

infodimeg.unical.it/associate_professor/card/152

infodimeg.unical.it/associate_professor/card/148

try
DISPLAY = qtvcp qtdragon

Hello, it's been a while... i hope you had a merry Christmas. It sounds awesome to me. But i think it will take a while because i am preparing my last exams. Maybe there's a chance i may already know the UniCal professor you're talking about, if he's in my department (DIMES).

Hope to hear you soon. Sorry for the day in my reply, but I'm studying and working too.
Thank you so much

I've had good luck getting everything to run well enough to get deep into learning and configuring LinuxCNC, Mesa 7i95T and the needed .ini and HAL files.  However, I just ran into my first problem when LinuxCNC errors on start when I configure QtDragon as the interfaces. 

I've already worked my way through several prior fail-on-start situations chasing down reported errors from the usual sources but this one is stumping me because I can't seem to find the actual error in the outputs I'm aware of.I will attach everything I can think of if someone could take a peak and spot what I'm missing.

Thanks

Stop overthinking.
With mesa hardware you don't need a base thread, only a servo thread is required. With that, latency isn't such a huge issue either. Trying to get an extra bit here and there does nothing.
The pre made image Rodw recently linked to is perfectly fine to run a machine, the only exception would be if you are using the RPi 5 spi interface to talk to a 7c81 or 7c80 as this requires a driver that isn't included in Rods image , this is not required for ethernet.
Invest more into learning the ins and outs of hal . This is more important that fussing over software as the images provide what is required, remember the only task these images are meant for is running a CNC machine.
If one reads the online docs one will fine some simple exercises that do not require a CNC machine.

Dear jjdege.
How can you solve the error when you install the ethercat package by command "sudo apt install -y linux-headers-(uname -r) ethercat-master linuxcnc-ethercat?

I read your post and it took a while to sink in how well running the native RaspianOS with the 6.12 kernel for what I want to accomplish.  I'm guessing that 6.12+ might be a real game changer across the board but I remember discussions about certain run-time flags being used to determine if PREEMPT_RT was part of the build and people commented that some don't match up yet.

Do you think that might be a hurdle in the short / mid  term?

Do you think someone familiar with the run-time testing code might already be working on a fix to any of those problems?

I finally feel like my basic Pi5 (NVME boot) / Mesa 7i95T system is basically functional.

I used Rob's link to what I think is his Google Drive to get what I believe is a LinuxCNC 2.9.3 / Kernel 6.6 RT ISO.

Because of being new or very rusty on virtually every level, I wound up stumbling my way through that process relying on the gracious help from the community.

I will attach a number of files for anyone to glance at or comment on if they wish.

Since I know now that there are many choices I should do differently I ordered an inventory of NVME and SD cards to start over clean and also try out other combinations of options without abandoning what I have.

I have a few questions before I start over 'clean':

1) Is the Pi5 2.9.3 ISO that I downloaded (or a newer one) now attached to the link on the Downloads page or is the one I downloaded still the latest?

2) I installed NetworkManager because I was struggling getting my WiFi working for internet access while dedicating the cable Ethernet to the Mesa board. Would it be better for me to avoid NetworkManager this time around?

3) I installed the Raspberry KVM because I thought that it might be useful sometimes, but I have never really used it so far. I'm wondering if there might be some latency implications to its presence or use?

I also included a screen capture for the latency histogram if anyone is curious.

Thanks

I have never used EtherCat with Raspberry so I can't answer you.
However, I read on the forum that others have had a similar problem
(forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...ectory-lib-modules-6 -1-0-25-rt-amd64#310761).
Maybe you can find some useful information there.

Dear elovalvo
Did you install successfully igh ethercat for Rasp 5?
I tried to install, but I got the error.
This error is " modprobe: FATAL: Module ec_master not found in directory /lib/modules/6.6.21-rpi999-rpi-2712"

Hi Scott,First, I want to thank you for your incredible work on the Remora firmware!Two weeks ago, I received my NVEM V5 board and started working on flashing it. Unfortunately, I couldn't find my STLink dongle (seems like I lost it), and I couldn't wait for a replacement. So, I decided to get creative and used what I had available. I flashed an STM32F103C8T6 using a Raspberry Pi Zero W with the "CMSIS-DAP" firmware you mentioned in one of your YouTube videos, using OpenOCD.As you described in the video, I then uploaded the "stm32f103xb_mimxrt1060_qspi_if.bin" to the mass storage device of the STM32F103C8T6, and it seemed to program itself as expected. I then connected it to my NVEM V5 board and dropped the firmware file onto it, but unfortunately, it didn't work.I spent the next three days troubleshooting but eventually gave up and purchased an STM32-Link, along with two CMSIS-DAP Probes (USB-A and USB-C). I received both of these items recently and tried again, but I’m still having issues.The CMSIS-DAP probes aren’t detected at all, neither by MCUxpresso IDE nor PyOCD. The STM32-Link is recognized by PyOCD, but I still can't get it to work as intended.Do you have any suggestions on where I should focus my efforts next? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.Thanks again for all your help!