If you really want to upgrade, first thing I would do is boot the latest Linuxcnc image, run latency-histogram --nobase if you get under 100ns latency, rather than upgrade your PC get a mesa 7i92, it will plug into your existing breakout board and start making chips.

The E8400 is a 64 bit CPU.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_2

Hello,

I measure every tool after changing, this happens automatically. In principle, only an offset to the previous value is determined; I don't write anything into the tool table. That doesn't make sense to me either since I don't have an automatic tool changer.
Here's another link:
www.patreon.com/posts/29-linuxcnc-der-27282521?l=de
forum.linuxcnc.org/qtvcp/39423-qtdragon-...tool-change?start=30

Many greetings, Frank.

 

Do you want A to rotate around X?
if you load a tool and jog A is this what you see?
Can you test the simulated config?

It appears the core problem is that 2.9 requires a 64 bit processor and my antique is a 686. I guess I will be staying in the past untilll I buy a new desktop.

So, is RTAI over?

I'm already feeling nostalgic.

How difficult will it be to use RTAI from now on (from LinuxCNC 2.9.5 onward)?

The most recent setup I’ve been able to get working is kernel 5.4.258 + LinuxCNC 2.9.4, using the following .deb packages (with isolcpus=3):

linuxcnc.org/dists/bookworm/base/binary-amd64/
linux-image-5.4.258-rtai-amd64_5.4.258-rtai-amd64-2_amd64.deb
linux-headers-5.4.258-rtai-amd64_5.4.258-rtai-amd64-2_amd64.deb
rtai-modules-5.4.258_5.3.3-linuxcnc-delta_amd64.deb

linuxcnc.org/dists/bookworm/2.9-rt/binary-amd64/
linuxcnc_2.9.4_amd64.deb

I was not able to get 5.4.290 + 2.9.4 working, nor 5.4.279 + 2.9.2. (I will post the error messages later.)

The 2.9.7 release notes state: "RTAI is still supported, but in the short term, building from source is likely to be the most expedient way to get 2.9.7 on that platform."

I’m wondering whether this is a reasonably straightforward process, or if it requires deeper OS-level debugging knowledge.