I just got a small cnc lathe and it has been a nightmare of parts not showing up and motors not connecting, setup guides were very minimal and this was kind of a last ditch effort after a straight 12 hours of reading up on linuxcnc and online forums and this did the trick. It is still kind of unbelievable so thank you very very much for the helpful video
Spent several days until I found this TH-cam. Worked exactly as described. However, not that one needs to redo this fix if your run stepconf. Info in custom.hal file implies one can and a loadrt command there, but when I do that, a restart yields errors. Anyway to make the loadrt comand stick?
not help me, how run motors, before used computer paraller port work well, not start linuxcnc and add home SW, and motors not run and i has add external PCI paraller port i need use more input pin, but today test and motors not run my pc paraller port before working. limit SW ,Probe, home inductive sensors working ok, par port 0 pc own port, what addres need add to both paraller port, 0 and 1.
Mine shows 3 i/o ports Region 0: dc00 Region 1: d880 Region 2: d800 Debug says cannot insert module device or resource busy Looks like I have to kill processes associated before running ?
Makemyideas.com This was an ELO 19”. Calibration took a while to figure out on Linux. I’ve since switched to windows and a centroid controller and had to get a new monitor.
Iron Forest Knife & Tool thanks yes I watch the other video where you changed to centroid, I'm a big fan of Linux, but honestly understand someone that wishes to leave it's a big learning curve.
Makemyideas.com I really switched because I wanted a better motion controller, and the Acorn was a good deal. The software is very professional and has lots of high level features. The smoothing settings built into the control with sliders is awesome. It REALLY speeds up and smooth out the motion. There’s a few things I miss from Gmoccapy, but overall I’m VERY happy with the centroid software/controller.
I just got a small cnc lathe and it has been a nightmare of parts not showing up and motors not connecting, setup guides were very minimal and this was kind of a last ditch effort after a straight 12 hours of reading up on linuxcnc and online forums and this did the trick. It is still kind of unbelievable so thank you very very much for the helpful video
Gregory Redlon Glad it helped you out!
Thank you so much for the video! This got me up and throwing chips instantly. Thanks! Have a good day
Glad it helped! It’s crazy I made it 7 years ago and it’s still relevant haha.
Thank you so much. I was having a lot of trouble following other instructions but this was so simple and did the trick.
Saved me lots of trouble!
Congratulations on the video. It would be possible to show the physical connection. Thank you, buddy.
thanks bro
Another LinuxCNC brother! Have you tried both gmoccapy and axis and prefer gmoccapy?
Kent VanderVelden I used axis very little, but based on what I’ve seen, I prefer gmoccapy. Especially for touchscreen. It works really well overall!
Spent several days until I found this TH-cam. Worked exactly as described. However, not that one needs to redo this fix if your run stepconf. Info in custom.hal file implies one can and a loadrt command there, but when I do that, a restart yields errors. Anyway to make the loadrt comand stick?
thanks :-)
not help me, how run motors, before used computer paraller port work well, not start linuxcnc and add home SW, and motors not run and i has add external PCI paraller port i need use more input pin, but today test and motors not run my pc paraller port before working. limit SW ,Probe, home inductive sensors working ok, par port 0 pc own port, what addres need add to both paraller port, 0 and 1.
do I need to install the drivers for the parrell port card?
Mine shows 3 i/o ports
Region 0: dc00
Region 1: d880
Region 2: d800
Debug says cannot insert module device or resource busy
Looks like I have to kill processes associated before running ?
Where do you find the HAL file?
It's yoursetupname.HAL(mine is g0704.hal). It is in the setup folder on your desktop. Same place as the .ini file.
Very hard to install pci parallel port.I try many time not work.
Yeah it's not intuitive. Where are you stuck? Is the card showing up in terminal?
@@IronForestKnives if the above vid doesn't work, you probably have an incompatible PCI card. Get one from a CNC shop, not that old $9 one off ebay.
what pci card are you using?
It’s a bytecc bt-p1p. Like $8 on Amazon. It can generate steps way faster than a built in parallel port.
thanks
What computer monitor you using I want to add a touch screen to mine.
Makemyideas.com This was an ELO 19”. Calibration took a while to figure out on Linux. I’ve since switched to windows and a centroid controller and had to get a new monitor.
Iron Forest Knife & Tool thanks yes I watch the other video where you changed to centroid, I'm a big fan of Linux, but honestly understand someone that wishes to leave it's a big learning curve.
Makemyideas.com I really switched because I wanted a better motion controller, and the Acorn was a good deal. The software is very professional and has lots of high level features. The smoothing settings built into the control with sliders is awesome. It REALLY speeds up and smooth out the motion. There’s a few things I miss from Gmoccapy, but overall I’m VERY happy with the centroid software/controller.