17 Jun
2010
17 Jun
'10
4:37 p.m.
On Thursday 17 June 2010, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17
01:32:00 +0200:
Not sure about the SMI, but screen blanking has to be disabled, that bites
in the the IRQ timing very badly. So when I walk away, I need to remember
to shut that old CRT Samsung off manually.
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Philipp Überbacher
wrote:
Thanks, I found it eventually (I'm really bad at using search engines).
Quite interesting, it uses a RTAI patched kernel. I also read this has a
module to disable SMIs, which is kind of hard to believe.. Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of
2010-06-17 00:45:14 +0200:
[...]
I fear something named simply 'emc'
isn't easy to find around the net.
Try
<http://www.linuxcnc.org/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-emc2-aj07-i386.iso> At my school we transfered the CAD files per floppy to
a DOS box that
controlled the CNC machine, guess that's for the same reason, bad rt
capabilities of newer OSes and machines.
The RTAI works pretty well, I can start a job, switch away from that window,
and talk to the guys on IRC, or browse the web without hurting the job.
That to me is true multitasking.
--
Cheers, Gene
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