bill.anderson wrote:

What would I have to add to the standard Debian 13.7.0 to get the LinuxCNC 2.9.10 preempt RT to work?. And where would I find the necessary files?
I have always just downloaded from LinuxCNC downloads to get a working version.
 

I can’t be of much help, as I always compile from source myself.
However, I do know that it’s actually quite simple.
To install the standard version, you only need four commands: To install a specific version, you’ll need to look for the packages online. The installation process is similar: The difference is that the "./" before the filename tells the installer to use a local file instead of searching for it in a repository.

One issue with using precompiled packages is that dependencies are sometimes not met.

I checked packages.debian.org/search?keywords=linuxcnc-uspace
In Trixie, the standard version is 2.9.4.
Other versions can be downloaded from www.linuxcnc.org/dists/trixie/2.9-uspace/binary-amd64/
(There is an issue with version 2.9.9, so it should not be used.)

What would I have to add to the standard Debian 13.7.0 to get the LinuxCNC 2.9.10 preempt RT to work?. And where would I find the necessary files?
I have always just downloaded from LinuxCNC downloads to get a working version.

Hobby, Gmoccapy 2.9.4, RPi4, old turret mill, 32 mm leadscrews, stepper motors, backlash up to 130 microns.
Backlash compensation set to 100 microns.

No problem producing good general-purpose parts.
But, current job has a central bore and two sides, Upper and Lower, requiring inversion of the part midway.

The Upper and Lower have a visible offset in the vertical join, not operationally a problem, just visible and perhaps 50 microns.
Tracking down all the usual suspects, but my thoughts turned to what the backlash compensation is doing.

Is there any way of observing and/or setting the backlash compensation ?
Good practices to manage the compensation ?

I will try installing a 123 block on the table at a known position.
Set Home at that position, and Home at switch-on only in X+ and Y+ directions.
Then Touch-off in the bore only in X+ and Y+ directions for the Upper, X- and Y- on inversion for the Lower.

The new Forum looks good to me.
Short note: I tried to post the same subject on 30Oct26, now lost.
John.

The `sda5` partition is the Windows recovery partition.
There is a specific procedure for removing it.
I don’t recall the exact steps, but the recovery data can exist either as a separate partition or as a file on the Windows partition. By running a few simple commands in Windows, you can copy the partition contents into a file, adjust your Windows settings, and then delete the now-unnecessary partition. You can find detailed instructions for this on Google.

As for the issue you described, it is an error in the installer; this happens occasionally, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Alternatively, you could install a standard version of Debian 13 with the Xfce4 desktop environment, and then install LinuxCNC—either from the Debian repositories or by using `.deb` files downloaded from the internet, should you need a specific version.

HP Laptop 15-fd0xxx
dmidecode 3.6
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 3.5.0 present.

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: HP Laptop 15-fd0xxx
Version:
Serial Number: 1H84340R2Z
UUID: 34384831-3433-5230-325a-5a5234333831
Wake-up Type: Power Switch
SKU Number: 7L2C7UA#ABA
Family: 103C_5335KV G=N L=CON B=HP S=SPT

Handle 0x0023, DMI type 32, 11 bytes
System Boot Information
Status: No errors detected
There is no BIOS entry for the storage or SATA mode.
Secure Boot is turned off.
The only disk that the installer see's is sdb the USB stick
I did use Manual and that was when the only disk that appeared was sdb
I also tried the text option - same results.

root@debian:/home/user# lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,TYPE,FSTYPE,LABEL
NAME SIZE TYPE FSTYPE LABEL
loop0 1.9G loop squashfs
sda 119.2G disk
├─sda1 260M part vfat SYSTEM
├─sda2 16M part
├─sda3 63.1G part ntfs Windows
├─sda4 25.8G part ext4 /root
├─sda5 776M part ntfs
└─sda6 29.3G part ext4 /home
sdb 7.5G disk iso9660 LinuxCNC_2.9.10
├─sdb1 3.9G part iso9660 LinuxCNC_2.9.10
└─sdb2 3.2M part vfat
root@debian:/home/user#
root@debian:/home/user# lspci -nn | grep -iE 'sata|raid|nvme|vmd|non-volatile'
root@debian:/home/user#

For existing Dynomotion KMotionCNC Users there is now a migration tool that can mostly convert a KMotionCNC configuration into a LinuxCNC configuration.

The Debian VB has a shared folder with Windows. Copy your KMotion installation to that folder. If your configuration references files outside of the installation folder copy those folders also. It is normally C:\ShareVM\kmotion

 

In Linux it is normally /mnt/kmotion

 

There is a desktop icon in Linux for the migration tool

 

Run the migration tool and it should find the configuration to convert. If there is more than one found it will ask you to choose. It will also ask for a name for the configuration. Here we entered TK

 

In this case the LinuxCNC Configuration is placed at /home/tk/KMotionX/KMotionX/linuxcnc/configs/TK/

 

Note that the KMotionCNC settings such as X Acceleration has been migrated into the ini file

 

A Desktop Icon will be created to run LinuxCNC with the new Configuration

 

See Video - set Quality to 1080p or higher for best viewing

I am missing the menu for  linuxcnc.org/   .It was an easy way to  documentation etc.
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Hi Bill,

I tried the 2.9.10 Trixie ISO in a UEFI VM with a Windows 11 style disk (GPT, EFI, MSR, NTFS, plus ext4 and swap made in GParted) and the installer listed the disk and all partitions, so the image itself seems fine. To narrow it down on your laptop, could you tell us:

1. The laptop make and model.
2. In the BIOS/UEFI setup, the storage or SATA mode: "RAID On", "Intel RST" or "VMD" versus "AHCI". Many Windows laptops ship with RAID/RST, and Linux installers often cannot see the disk in that mode.
3. From the live system, open a terminal and post the output of:
lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,TYPE,FSTYPE,LABEL
lspci -nn | grep -iE 'sata|raid|nvme|vmd|non-volatile'
4. What the installer shows exactly: no disk at all, or the disk without your partitions? Note that the installer does not use partitions made in GParted automatically. Pick "Manual", select your ext4 partition, set "Use as: Ext4" with mount point "/", and set the swap partition as swap.

If the BIOS is in RAID/RST mode, switching to AHCI usually fixes it, but Windows needs to be prepared for that first (boot once into safe mode) or it will not start afterwards.

Just creating a place where to post about New Forum findings. I will talk about new forum as the current one we have, we had a couple of days this past weekend where the forum upgrade was botched, many issues have already been resolved with the new upgrade

Old threads are again reachable from Google searches and external links
Attachments are again available in older threads.

 New reports I saw around

The header menu/top bar with recent topics, My topics etc is showing up vertically or not at all, I think John is already on this, might get fixed soon.
attachment are only allowed to a maximum size of 0.1MB (Don't remember, what was it set to originally?)
Forum is slow
Inline code has an ugly code prefix and is purple? When on the main page the name listed in the browser is Index - Kunena

thanks grandixximo. It looks like I will need to add a new picture for my avatar. Oh well no big deal.

Local AI is getting better and less resource hungry exponentially, still sometime before you can run something amazing on a laptop, but we might get there sooner than one might think, mostly is not having to share private info with these big companies if you run local.

Apologies about the Forum, it was updated, and the administrators are actively working on improving the experience, thank you for your patience.
 

  Well that was an interesting weekend. At first I thought either this forum got hacked or the server crashed. A lot of people on YouTube talking about 
how Sam Altman thinks everyone's computer is wasting ram that should be his. And I finally try local AI.
So tommylight suggested I try LM Studio and local AI, And what do you know my laptop can run QWEN 3.5 9B without much problem.
unfortunately I run out of memory real quick. My laptop has an rtx5060 8gb vram and 16gb regular ram. My desktop has the same ram levels
just with older hardware.
  I may end up getting a few sticks of DDR4 to put in my desktop to give me more headroom since bigger graphics 
cards are way too expensive , not to mention Nvidia is basically removing the 5090 and 5080 from the lineup. As I understand it regular
ram works fine for AI its just slower. Since at least in the US you can get 128gb of DDR4 for under $2000 (though I will probably just go with 64gb)
I would say it's a better buy then any top tier graphics card. Plus it gives Sam Altman and Jensen Huang both the middle finger.

a lot of changes since i last posted. as my father has passed away (as of April 2006), i have taken over his shop.
This has been a blessing and a curse... as it was left is a very cluttered state, and needed much cleaning to get my machine into it. In order to get the machine in, i had to strip it down to the bare machine again, and detach the machine from the base. we than carried the base and the machine over to the new shop, and both had to be tipped on edge to fit through the doorway. But as can be seen in the above picture from June... we got it into the shop.


Then came the task of completely rewiring the machine to the original schematic, so the existing configs would still work. there is still much to do, but it works again.


i did not like the pathetic flow from the stock spindle cooling fan... so i ducted in some air from a blower that is more than triple the CFM of the stock unit sitting on the gantry beam.

I did have automatic tool changing setup and working well... but i did not like that it took up so much space out of the work-area, so i removed the rack in favor of rapid manual changing.

At present, i seem to be having many mental and physical health issues, so progress has stagnated down to a cobweb collecting halt. i hope to be able to return to this though, but i just wanted to update my post here, providing JT doesn't change the forum again and lose this post image missing /media/kunena/emoticons/24.png