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I have an older image installed on my PI, with 2.9.1. The normal update/upgrade procedure won't help. Can I upgrade to this 'image'?

It does not seem elovalvo made any changes to the hal gpiod driver acode. He just configured th eports appropriately, Therefore, the official image on the downloads page  should also support it

rufino wrote:

Would it be possible to provide an image for the functional Rasberry Pi 5 configured to access the GPIO?

The image you can download from this links
forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...pi-5?start=20#285747
forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...pi-5?start=60#287616


It works fine with the hal_gpio module as reported here

forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...-pi-5?start=0#285243

This image does not appear to have any problems with either Ethernet or video drivers

libgpiod May work on the RPi5, as of now the only known working interface for linuxcnc is Ethernet.
All I can suggest is to try the above mentioned driver and report back. Or bang your head against a wall wishing you bought a RPi 4, hahaha, cos that’s where I am.
Whilst it’s been touted as the greatest thing since sliced bread at the moment it’s just a pile of flour, yeast, a pinch of salt and a jug of water without a recipe.
To be fair I doubt Linuxcnc was on the foundation’s radar, but it is frustrating. It has potential but not quite yet.

rufino wrote:

Would it be possible to provide an image for the functional Rasberry Pi 5 configured to access the GPIO?

Does the existing driver work? linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/drivers/hal_gpio.html

If not it will be up to the developers to implement something. Not something I do.

Would it be possible to provide an image for the functional Rasberry Pi 5 configured to access the GPIO?

cakeslob wrote:

i hope this thing works
my super cheap shit board with the following buzzwords
linuxcnc remora raspberrypi stm32 blackpill w5500 ethernet ........ shield

 

 

looks promissing, will wait for the real, i will build those to change my old chinese bob, can we add axis to multiple z axis?i have plant to add my machine with diode laser and plasma cut

I've added a section to the documentation on how to get LinuxCNC and install LitexCNC:
litex-cnc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/raspberrypi.html

It is still work in progress, as I have only covered the PREEMPT image from LinuxCNC and I also want to add support for RTAI (using Raspbian) and older version (2.8.2 on buster).

The main reason for covering the RTAI version is personal: I just don't like the GUI from Xfce, and do prefer the GUI provided by the Raspberry Pi foundation.

I have built vtk from source on a Pi a long time ago (5 hour build) and it worked with PB
But there is no need to do that as vtk is now supported for ARM64 (raspberry pi 4/5) in the Debian  repositories
try; sudo apt install vtk9
you may also need python3-vtk9

There should be no reason why the qtpyvcp team can't build a pi compatible deb and host it on their repository.

EDIT: if you do that, pleas elet me know and I will include the qtpyvcp repo in the 2.9.2 installers

jay.perez1 wrote:

Hi Chris,

I heard there's been a lot of development on Probe_Basic recently and some new contributors.

Thanks for the fantastic work everyone !!!

Question; We currently have two CNC routers running Probe_Basic on Debian 10 and Mesa cards. We're trying to build a new Probe_Basic controller using a Raspberry Pi 4 and the BTT SKR v1.4 Turbo board. Do you know if the instructions above will work for that situation ?

rpi does not support the vtk used with qtpyvcp and is not supported. some have tried but i have not seen a successful implementation to date that i am aware of, if someone has done it maybe they can chime in?

Installed on a Pi5 8Gb.
Running great with a Mesa 7i76e

i hope this thing works
my super cheap shit board with the following buzzwords
linuxcnc remora raspberrypi stm32 blackpill w5500 ethernet ........ shield


 

Aah, now I know what you were looking at. an XFCE feature

der wrote:

Hi,
I found another small bug. Then I change a tool the icons of the desktop menu become visible (see picture below).

 
That's normal behaviour for the bottom panel in Debian for  XFCE (for amd64 & arm64) when you move the mouse over the area where the panel would be no matter the application you are using, if you right click on the panel you can change the properties. Not a bug & does not require reporting.

der wrote:

Hi,
I found another small bug. Then I change a tool the icons of the desktop menu become visible (see picture below).

That is nothing to do with the installation process. I can't help. Report in the correct GUI section