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I'm in the process of converting my old Gorton MasterMill to CNC! I just started setting up the computer for EMC & have 2.4 installed on it. I got it to load until I modified the custom.hal file as stated in wiki.linuxcnc.org/emcinfo.pl?Hooking_Up_A_MPG_Pendant . Every time I try to load it after I put the code from that article in it I get the following error:

Print file information:
RUN_IN_PLACE=no
EMC2_DIR=
EMC2_BIN_DIR=/usr/bin
EMC2_TCL_DIR=/usr/share/emc/tcl
EMC2_SCRIPT_DIR=
EMC2_RTLIB_DIR=/usr/realtime-2.6.24-16-rtai/modules/emc2
EMC2_CONFIG_DIR=
EMC2_LANG_DIR=/usr/share/emc/tcl/msgs
INIVAR=inivar
HALCMD=halcmd
EMC2_EMCSH=/usr/bin/wish8.4
EMC2 - 2.4.3
Machine configuration directory is '/home/michael/emc2/configs/Gorton'
Machine configuration file is 'Gorton.ini'
INIFILE=/home/michael/emc2/configs/Gorton/Gorton.ini
PARAMETER_FILE=emc.var
EMCMOT=motmod
EMCIO=io
TASK=milltask
HALUI=
DISPLAY=axis
NML_FILE=
Starting EMC2...
Starting EMC2 server program: emcsvr
Loading Real Time OS, RTAPI, and HAL_LIB modules
Starting EMC2 IO program: io
Shutting down and cleaning up EMC2...
Killing task emcsvr, PID=9838
Removing HAL_LIB, RTAPI, and Real Time OS modules
Removing NML shared memory segments
Cleanup done

Debug file information:
Unrecognized line skipped: POC FMS LEN DIAM COMMENT
custom.hal:13: Unknown command 'axis.N.jog-vel-mode'
9838
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/hal_manualtoolchange", line 33, in <module>
nf.start(app); nf.makecommand(app, "_", _)
File "debian/tmp/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/nf.py", line 115, in start
KeyboardInterrupt

Kernel message information:
[56013.352926] I-pipe: Domain RTAI registered.
[56013.352936] RTAI[hal]: <3.6.1> mounted over IPIPE-NOTHREADS 2.0-04.
[56013.352938] RTAI[hal]: compiled with gcc version 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3).
[56013.352945] RTAI[hal]: mounted (IPIPE-NOTHREADS, IMMEDIATE (INTERNAL IRQs DISPATCHED), ISOL_CPUS_MASK: 0).
[56013.352948] PIPELINE layers:
[56013.352951] e0be8000 9ac15d93 RTAI 200
[56013.352953] c0383180 0 Linux 100
[56013.457147] RTAI[malloc]: global heap size = 2097152 bytes, <BSD>.
[56013.457549] RTAI[sched]: loaded (IMMEDIATE, UP, USER/KERNEL SPACE: <with RTAI OWN KTASKs>, kstacks pool size = 524288 bytes.
[56013.457555] RTAI[sched]: hard timer type/freq = 8254-PIT/1193180(Hz); default timing: periodic; linear timed lists.
[56013.457559] RTAI[sched]: Linux timer freq = 250 (Hz), CPU freq = 2525042000 hz.
[56013.457562] RTAI[sched]: timer setup = 2010 ns, resched latency = 2689 ns.
[56013.637778] RTAI[math]: loaded.
[56013.856259] config string '0x378 out df98 in '
[56015.246250] RTAI[math]: unloaded.
[56015.309646] SCHED releases registered named ALIEN RTGLBH
[56015.324601] RTAI[malloc]: unloaded.
[56015.424025] RTAI[sched]: unloaded (forced hard/soft/hard transitions: traps 0, syscalls 0).
[56015.427232] I-pipe: Domain RTAI unregistered.
[56015.427241] RTAI[hal]: unmounted.


From what I see it doesn't understand the 'axis.N.jog-vel-mode' line. Can someone help me get this correct?

Thanks!

I'm sure I'll have more questions later on, so bear with me!

Mike

In the manual and on wiki the N is a placeholder to indicate you should put a logical number there.
So for the X axis it would be axis.0.jog-vel-mode and that is a zero not the letter O.

I would read the HAL beginners guide part of the Integrators manual to better understand a .hal file.

John

Sorry for taking so long to get back! BigJohnT, Thanks for the info! I see I definitely have a bunch of reading and learning to do!