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Debian dpkg-buildpackage uses perl, perl complains when running menu-config without LANGUAGE set.

So perl hasn't anything to do with Linuxcnc but when building packages, I had to build linuxcnc to have the hm2_spix driver for the Rpi5.

Why on earth are we using perl in a Linuxcnc project? What's wrong with Python? At least its supported by the project.

Perl complains if LC_ALL or LANGUAGE isn't set.

The default  settings come from userdata.txt github.com/rodw-au/rpi-img-builder-lcnc/...9.3/userdata.txt#L40
I.m not sure LANGUAGE  needs to be set for the locale if its en_US.UTF-8 as we use for the default config 

On my chrome book,  locale reports
rod@penguin:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

On my Debian PC in my office, I get 
rod@debian:~$ locale
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

 

Doesn't have an option for setting LANGUAGE.

Had to use
Then log out and login for it to take effect.

Thanks, that image was prepared by James Walker (Joco) one of the qtpyvcp developers.
All of these features can be set using sudo menu-config which brings up this menu.

 

Just checked out your new image that you linked a couple of posts ago. Video works ok when using min hdmi to DVI adapter.
Just for those of us that are a bit silly what is the correct procedure & values to setup
1: LANGAUGE (currently unset)
2: LC_ALL (currently unset)
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8" is fine.

Currently starting to test the new hm2_spix driver

RNZ wrote:

Hi Behai. I purchased a couple of these cards from the US. I built a CNC around this card and a raspberry pi five. If you want to chat about it, I’m at the top of the South Island.
 

Hi @RNZ,

Thank you very much for the offer. I appreciate that... I know nothing about CNC. I am learning at the moment.

I am learning HAL I have been a run-of-a-mill computer programmer, conceptually I have no problem understanding HAL, but I am not yet familiar with all the stuff in HAL yet. For example, I have learned that there is a motion module. But I don't yet understand what it is about, and its properties etc... I have much to learn till I can questions which hopefully make sense

Have a good weekend...

Best regards,

...behai.
 

Hi Behai. I purchased a couple of these cards from the US. I built a CNC around this card and a raspberry pi five. If you want to chat about it, I’m at the top of the South Island.

The builder we have forked is based on Debian, not Rpi but we do fetch and build the Rpi  kernel from source.
That way you get the best of both worlds.
Linuxcnc is a Debian application so all the menu features are installed from Linuxcnc deb files.
Its not intended as a generic Rpi installation so it won't include any standard pi applications which could add additional latency.
 

macrimarco001 wrote:

Salve,
Thank you so much for this new resource. I think i'll start playing around with it as soon as i get a Raspberry Pi. i wonder what is the maximum control frequency using this solution.
I see you are a professor. I'm currently a computer engineering student at UniCal. i wish there would be a similar project at my university .
Hope you do well. Thanks again.

I have been retired for a couple of years now.
If you want, I can give you the name of a UniCal teacher who, in addition to knowing me personally, could answer your questions.
In the meantime, I'll see if I can find the digital copy of this thesis which could be a good starting point for your work.
 

Thanks for getting back to me.

I wanted to that that I got the image to burn onto a card through random internet searches / and re-try's. I'm sure we are all familiar with middle of the night stubbornness. LOL

Once burned the image seemed quite quite good to me with the caveat that my next step will be to get my 7i95T board configured so I haven't yet tested end-to operation.

I used saved versions of all the raspberypi.org and raspbian.org config files for apt including the keyring files that are needed. So it was quick to update/upgrade/apt install a reasonable collection of Pi specific config tools.

So thanks for making that image available.

I do have a few questions/hopes about embedding some of those tweaks into the Pi 4/5 specific IMG's.

1) Include the Pi specific APT/PGP files on the conditional build you are using for the Pi.

2) Include the core Pi executables as well with serious bonus points for adding those to the default app-lauch UI like is being done for LinuxCNC.

Those two things would substantially reduce the newbie headwinds for those that are either new or rusty on Linux.

Thanks so much for all your work!

Richard

Salve,
Thank you so much for this new resource. I think i'll start playing around with it as soon as i get a Raspberry Pi. i wonder what is the maximum control frequency using this solution.
I see you are a professor. I'm currently a computer engineering student at UniCal. i wish there would be a similar project at my university .
Hope you do well. Thanks again.

Ciao.

Meanwhile, congratulations on the good work.

I am also Italian and have been working with LinuxCnc and Raspberyy for a long time and I took care of its translation into Italian.

www.youtube.com/@cnclab-unipa939

In particular, I think you might be interested in these links

forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...-io-pins-only#203365

forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...-pi-5?start=0#285239

If you want I can give you other directions

I'm trying to get the gowin toolchain up and running on rpi5. It gives me an error when execute making all.I see you've already mentioned this error. I downloaded and cloned the dev version and it still doesn't work. Any tips...

I see there is another option 'generic_spi'. I will test that on rpi5 too just to get that toolchain working. I don't want to take the TN9 out of the device and program on windows anymore.