anyone have a working emc g540 configuration?

[coltz]

I've had some problems making the motors do sensible things in mach3, so quickly wanted to try ubuntu + emc on my thinkpad t61. Does anyone have an emc configuration I could use?

Thanks!

[I have to say I'm really unimpressed with ubuntu: it destroyed something on the first laptop I tried to install it on, and now nothing will boot. I get the well known "grub 18 error" but unfortunately the main fixes don't seem applicable.]

[Lurkepus]

I have been thinking about using the same combo ( Emc/G540) but i haven't found any info yet .. are ther any easy way to get it working ?

[chinsettawong]

Hi Guys,

Go and download the latest version of Ubuntu and EMC2. It has a set up wizard where you can choose to use G540 right out. It is very easy.

However, I ran into a problem while trying to use an IBM notebook with EMC. It didn't
have IPP mode for parallel port. And therefore, it didn't work.

Wachara C.

[coltz]

Thanks for the pointer.

I'm pretty annoyed w/ Ubuntu right now. Last time I tried to install it, it screwed up the harddisk (partition table?) so much that the BIOS couldn't recognize the hard drive!

[draughted]

i also use this combo
and it has been good for a whlie but i soon realised that you really do need the hardy heron 8.08 with emc2.3
you will find it has a good setting for the g540
with timings of
1000
2000
200
200
the dapper drake install comes with EMC2.2 and an option the upgrade



personally hardyheron was working well for me on a hyperthreading P4 with SMI disabled. and when it came time to upgrade it couldn't re disable SMI so ihad to downgrade to a P3 and dapperdrake.. (it wouldn't support hardy,not enough ram) but i believe i have a more stable system.