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Figured it out with the help of Hakan! Filled me in on what I was not getting. Working now, or at least far more complete than what I have ever had before.

www.forum.linuxcnc.org/qtvcp/56093-movin...s-to-qtdragon#328018

Thank you!

"Didn't you copy that one over?"

No, as a matter of fact I didn't as up until you mentioned it just now, I did not know that was what I needed to do. But now that I have done it, it looks like it is actually working. At least the gui is now opening and I'm getting signals like endstop and estop triggers being reported as well as mist and flood working.

Thank you for the help. Like I said, I am brand new to LinuxCNC and have something just less of a clue what I'm actually doing. I am considering my self lucky good folks like you have been able to help me make it up as I go along.

Thank you

Thanks,
intel adaptive thermal monitor need set disable? i dont want burn CPU!

lol not offended, you move to fast, i was trying to stay one step ahead. but no you cant just load it as is, but its a very similar config as to what you want in the end. make a copy of your config folder, and replace a bunch of stuff. Specifically the [DISPLAY] section of the config, then there might be some probe related macro files and qtdragon related files. the remora-flexi.hal , dont touch i think. but there are some qtdragon hal files in there

Sorry, didn't mean to offend. Take your time as in the end I will be needing the "thing for easy GUI switching".

Tried it and instantly end up with an error.

flexi: dlopen: /usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules/flexi.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried it 2 ways by copying the .ini and .hal files into the existing qtdragon config and by copying the entire flexi config file and running it from there and same error.

2.9 will overwrite your 2.8.x installation

If you want to run both, its actually rather difficult because of the different Python versions
required by 2.8.x and 2.9.x

In general its possible to run multiple LinuxCNC versions (say 2.9.4 and 2.10) by having
a normal installed version and a RIP (Run In Place) version but 2.8.x and 2.9.x don't get along.

 

That was expected and just warnings. You can add what it complains about to the ini file later.
But it errors on a missing "postgui_call_list.hal" file
Didn't you copy that one over? All used hal files from the old config need to come over.

ok I understand the philosophy
last year, when I needed to use the RC_gen functionality, maybe you, the ad hoc file was created for me... I thought that the various .pin files had already configured all the features that are listed on the hostmot2 page of linuxcnc
thanks again for your availability
ciao
Roberto

@tommylight,

So, there would not be an error file/log generated I could look for?

Cheers,

Dave

langdons wrote:

Perhaps try this:

Save your config files somewhere very safe.

Open your PC and remove all unnecessary hardware (except the GPU).

Reinstall LinuxCNC from the official ISO. (The latest version, or perhaps some earlier version).

Set CPU governor to performance.

Run latency test.

See if latency is improved.

Changing the scaling govenor to performance reduced my latency a noticable amount.

Now i try 

in my bios conf i have:
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology: Disabled
Turbo Mode: Disabled
CPU C3 Report: Disabled
CPU C6 Report: Disabled    

i need to enable all for change governor?
  
i have another SSD ready with same version of linuxcnc 2.9.4 i try to install kernel 6.6 for test, make monolithic for first if see error go modular kernel with initrd image with SATA driver in.

dammit spyder i thought i had more time before you would start asking about qtdragon

im working on a thing for easy GUI switching, but in the mean time you can use this as a reference because i know it works and its pretty close to what the config is you want.

github.com/Expatria-Technologies/remora-...hal/remora-flexi.ini

github.com/Expatria-Technologies/remora-...figSamples/flexi-hal

There's a rough key in the firmware names

ST stepper
SV servo (= PWM/Encoder)
SS Smart Serial
UA UART

And then numbers indicating how many of each kind of module is included

You could make a script with mesaflash to create matching pinout  files

somethign like:

sudo mesaflash --device 7i90hd --epp --addr 0x378 --write $1.bit --reload
sleep 3
sudo mesaflash --device 7i90hd --epp --addr 0x378 --readhmid > %1.pin

Just make sure you just write epp configurations...

 

Ok so by installing Linuxcnc 2.9 and probe basic it won't change any of the original Linuxcnc 2.8 and axis stuff I have?

Set fan profile to max in BIOS.

Don't boot from a USB key.

Use a real SATA or SCSI HDD/SSD.

Stress uses 100% CPU time, but not 100% CPU power.

Use mprime for a real stress test (NOTE: it may melt your PC).

But because it runs at a lower priority than LinuxCNC does, neither will make a big difference (assuming unlimited cooling capability).