I'm pleased to announce the next release of the emc 2.2 series, emc
2.2.6. This version contains many bugfixes, a new unified
driver for the Mesa PCI and parport cards such as 5i20 and 7i33, and a
sample configuration for the Tormach PCNC 1100.
The new packages are now available in the package repository. If you
have already installed an earlier 2.2.x version, this is available as an
update. If you are still using 2.1.7 but want to upgrade, instructions
are here.
CVS users can get this release by checking out the RELEASE_2_2_6 tag.
Tarballs will be available on sourceforge.net within the next 24 hours.
- fix hal_input manpage
- Fix FTBFS on hardy (texlive-extra-utils)
- (incompatible change) make debounce cfg= match the documentation
If you use a debounce component with multiple groups (e.g., cfg="3 3")
this must be changed to use commas instead of spaces: (e.g., cfg=3,3)
- hal_ax5214h: driver fixes from Dave Brink
- stepconf: fix spurious "application closed unexpectedly" messages
(for this and other stepconf bugfixes, re-run stepconf and re-save your
configuration file)
- stepconf: fix "following error" messages when the requested step rate
cannot be attained
- stepconf: fix "following error" messages due to insufficient "stepgen
headroom"
- stepconf: if an exception is encountered, show it to the user in a message
box.
- stepconf: fix non-working configuration if "Onscreen prompt for tool
change" was disabled
- stepconf: allow entry of step and direction timings up to 500000ns
- hal_ppmc: handle faster clock frequency for UPC 3.1 boards
- hal_ppmc: correctly return IO regions at exit
- software encoder counter: fix problem with negative velocity outputs
- Fix handling of G61/G64 after Machine Off (SF#2006736)
- new realtime component: gearchange. selects between two scale factors,
two min and max speed limits, and optionally reverses direction of spindle
- new realtime component: invert - outputs the inverse of a float (1/x)
- new realtime component: ilowpass - scale and low-pass on integer values to
smooth jog wheel action
- added hostmot2 driver for 5i20 and 7i43
- added sample configuration for the Tormach PCNC 1100
(originally posted on the AXIS blog)