My earlier post regarding installation
5 Days In LinuxCNC Install Hell
had a simple solution. I hope this one does too!
I was able to install LinuxCNC 2.5 on an Intel D945GTP board (Intel Pentium D, 3.4 GHz dual core with Nvidia 8800GTS video board - dual monitors) without much difficulty. I recently upgraded LinuxCNC on my virtual machine (the one I hack GCODE on and virtually walk through programs before transferring the GCODE to the production machine) to the current version. No sweat. It's running on VirtualBox on a MacBook Pro.
But getting the matching install on the Intel board has been
hell!
Burning to a USB stick, getting the monitors to work properly (still a bit off on that - but I can live with it if need be), but now LinuxCNC is choking - and it looks (at a guess - a very W-A-G) that it's a conflict of some sort with the monitors. Basically, if I launch LinuxCNC, it dies an ugly death, spewing the following data:
Code:
k@linuxcnc-debian:~$ linuxcnc
LINUXCNC - 2.7.9
Machine configuration directory is '/home/k/linuxcnc/configs/by_machine.sherline.Sherline3Axis'
Machine configuration file is 'Sherline3Axis_inch.ini'
Starting LinuxCNC...
.
Found file(lib): /usr/share/linuxcnc/hallib/core_stepper.hal
Found file(REL): ./standard_pinout.hal
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/axis", line 3141, in <module>
o = MyOpengl(widgets.preview_frame, width=400, height=300, double=1, depth=1)
File "/usr/bin/axis", line 353, in __init__
Opengl.__init__(self, *args, **kw)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/rs274/OpenGLTk.py", line 164, in __init__
apply(RawOpengl.__init__, (self, master, cnf), kw)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/rs274/OpenGLTk.py", line 112, in __init__
Togl.__init__(self, master, cnf, **kw)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/rs274/OpenGLTk.py", line 38, in __init__
Widget.__init__(self, master, 'togl', cnf, kw)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2001, in __init__
(widgetName, self._w) + extra + self._options(cnf))
_tkinter.TclError: Togl: X server has no OpenGL GLX extension
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
task: 101 cycles, min=0.000019, max=0.012449, avg=0.009268, 0 latency excursions (> 10x expected cycle time of 0.010000s)
LinuxCNC terminated with an error. You can find more information in the log:
/home/k/linuxcnc_debug.txt
and
/home/k/linuxcnc_print.txt
as well as in the output of the shell command 'dmesg' and in the terminal
I've attached the output from dmesg, and the two files mentioned above in hopes that someone will take pity and guide me FROM Dante's "Vestibule of the Futile" where I've spent the last 10 days.
