00:02:16 <A-L-P-H-A> hmm... I think I'm gonna need to get my 3rd and 4th axis up and running at some point in the near future.
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00:39:51 <dave-e> les...you awake?
00:40:36 <dave-e> how about paul?
00:41:48 <dave-e> hmmmm! anyone listening that uses an stg card?
00:46:08 <paul_c> Les does...
00:47:35 <dave-e> les seems logged on but not keeping track. 
00:48:02 <paul_c> kick him
00:48:54 <dave-e> my new install of 2.18 acts like it was compiled with NO_INDEX_PULSE ...homes on home switch not on the index pulse...is this the dist default?
00:49:45 <dave-e> or do I have other problems?
00:49:50 <paul_c> stg installed from the 2.18 rpm ?
00:50:20 <dave-e> 2.18 bdi...
00:50:40 <dave-e> which i presume implies the 2.18 rpm
00:51:59 <paul_c> which driver did you spec in the ini file ?
00:52:05 <dave-e> stg
00:52:45 <dave-e> hmmmm not stg2 if that is what you mean. 
00:52:46 <paul_c> not stg2 - Just trying to isolate the files to look at..
00:54:15 <dave-e> extstgmot.c seems to have all the flags commented out. ...which should mean they  work...right?
00:55:33 <paul_c> It should..
00:55:54 <dave-e> the behavior is like this:
00:56:43 <dave-e> if say x is a +4 ...well off the switch  clicking home makes it go neg until it hits the home switch...where it homes immediately
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00:57:35 <dave-e> if I place the axis on the home switch it homes immediately. good to about a thou but the index pulse had better do better than that.
00:58:22 <dave-e> I can put it different  places on the home cam and it still acts the same....no movement before it homes
00:58:46 <paul_c> and you are using it with a Version 1 STG card ?
00:58:53 <dave-e> yes
01:00:06 <dave-e> since i installed the dev version I could do a compile tomorrow and see if that changes anything. 
01:00:11 <paul_c> Can I mail you the rpms from 2.20 & 2.22
01:01:00 <dave-e> didn't know there was a 2.22...I do have a 2.20b CD here.
01:02:15 <dave-e> is there a way to force an rpm to a new tree?
01:05:45 <paul_c> Having sent the two files, it occurs to me that the Ver 1 STG driver might be suffering from the same bug that Les had originally.
01:06:04 <dave-e> which is?
01:06:32 <paul_c> wouldn't see the index pulse
01:06:40 <dave-e> oh... 
01:06:47 <dave-e> so what is the fix
01:07:03 <paul_c> did it ever work for you ?
01:07:51 <dave-e> the index pulse...no
01:08:21 <dave-e> ...well maybe....but not in conjunction with a home switch. 
01:09:25 <dave-e> on the other machine....on channel would home immediately...and the other one would look travel for less than a rev of the ball screw and then home. ...
01:09:39 <dave-e> so I guess the answer is ... I don't know
01:10:07 <dave-e> gotta run now...hot date :-)
01:10:22 <dave-e> will get on tomorrow morn...
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01:38:58 <paul_c> Evening Hugo
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01:44:36 <A-L-P-H-A> goodbye Hugo
01:45:01 <A-L-P-H-A> one can only take so much spy movies/shows for a week.
01:45:29 <A-L-P-H-A> been watching "MI-5" the neat series... and now this "The Grid" miniseries.
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02:58:44 <paul_c> Yo Mike
03:09:19 <danfalck> good evening paul
03:09:42 <paul_c> errr.... very early morning.
03:09:46 <danfalck> or morning
03:10:06 <paul_c> way past bed time here..
03:10:13 <danfalck> how are things?
03:10:39 <paul_c> <blunt answer> pissed off...
03:11:01 <danfalck> BDI stuff?
03:11:26 <paul_c> a little bit.
03:12:03 <paul_c> Dead control on the Lathe & no money to fix it..
03:12:16 <danfalck> I must say, I really do appreciate all the work you do w/ the distros
03:12:38 <danfalck> I'm having a great time w/ the RC46 installed to a box here
03:12:39 <paul_c> Will have bdi-4.09 out at the weekend
03:12:57 <danfalck> I love being able to apt-get install things
03:13:19 <danfalck> I have Gimp running in another window on this machine (ssh connection)
03:13:23 <paul_c> and if you feel adventurous, you can upgrade rc46 to BDI-4
03:14:02 <danfalck> I'm not that adventurous yet
03:14:25 <danfalck> I've got a lot of CAD stuff on this box that I just got installed
03:14:35 <danfalck> pythonCAD, varkon, sagcad, qcad
03:15:01 <danfalck> plus Axis
03:15:08 <paul_c> tried out the next release of gCAD3D a few days ago
03:15:28 <danfalck> what do you think of it?
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03:16:24 <paul_c> Hmmmm.... Needs documenting, and locales needs fixing. German text isn't my preferred choice.
03:16:57 <danfalck> where you able to import anything or generate any g-code?
03:17:35 <paul_c> kinda produced some g-code. Not that it was emc ready
03:18:22 <danfalck> have you ever gotten a hold of the source code for gCAD3D? I've never seen it.
03:18:59 <paul_c> Been asking
03:21:35 <paul_c> EMC needs an APT interpreter to make the most of gCAD3D's output.
03:22:23 <danfalck> about 5 years ago, I almost spent the money for the source code for the old US gov't APT stuff
03:22:39 <danfalck> $1200 but it was on old magnetic tape for VAX
03:23:00 <danfalck> I couldn't find anyone to read it for me, so I gave up
03:23:22 <danfalck> the agency that sells it also didn't want me putting the code out for public consumtion
03:23:29 <danfalck> consumption
03:23:44 <danfalck> which was the whole idea in the first place
03:23:58 <paul_c> US.gov is pushing stepNC now ?
03:24:11 <danfalck> I haven't looked into that
03:24:30 <danfalck> the bitter taste of the lost APT code sort of pissed me off
03:24:49 <danfalck> taxpayer dollars my ***...
03:25:09 <danfalck> Is step closed source?
03:25:22 <danfalck> or otherwise restricted?
03:26:14 <paul_c> dunno - I know NIST are doing some work on it...
03:29:52 <danfalck> I need to go.  Thanks for the BDIs!
03:30:21 <paul_c> to be honest, it isn't that difficult to parse a line and break it up in to tokens - Pretty standard fare for any language.
03:30:34 <paul_c> * paul_c => Bed.
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03:50:30 <dave-e> les ... you on or just logging?
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09:55:33 <CIA-3> 03zwisk 07halrefactor-0-1 * 10emc2/src/hal/ (hal_cmds.c hal_cmds.h Makefile utils/Makefile utils/halcmd.c): 
09:55:34 <CIA-3> Refactoring of utils/halcmd.c to allow for execution of hal commands
09:55:34 <CIA-3> and scripts from other utilities through C interfaces.
09:55:34 <CIA-3> In particular, 3 new commands have been added:
09:55:34 <CIA-3> int run_command(const char *command);
09:55:35 <CIA-3> int run_script(const char *filename);
09:55:37 <CIA-3> int run_script_file(FILE *infile);