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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: October 27, 2015, 09:13:42 PM »

Hi:

 Make sure mcDarwin.m4pw and mcDarwin.sig are in the c:\Mach4\Plugins folder..

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: October 27, 2015, 08:43:17 AM »

Ben:

   Yes, sounds like it doesnt want to install the driver. Heres a manual method, though not all systems will do it..

First, open the device manager.
Select the top of the tree and right click it, select "Add legacy hardware". hit "next"
Select "Install hardware I manually select.
Select Show All Device, click next
Select "Have disk"
Browse to C:\Mach4\Plugins\Darwin Driver
The file DarWin.inf should show up, select it..
Select OK and hold your breath.. if it works you should now be able to
run the DriverTest.exe and see the pulser work. If it doesnt work we
will all cease to exist in this dimension and no-one will ever know, though
nonsentient clones of ourselves will still be here to read your responce.

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: October 26, 2015, 09:49:24 PM »

Hi Ben:

  Is this a Win7, 32 bit or Win7 64 bit system? Darwin does not work on 64 bit systems. If you use the Win7 control panel you can get to the
Device manager, you want to check ( if this is a 32 bit system) is there an entry for Mach Pulseing engine showing a driver for Mach4 is
loaded?
   When you run the installer for Mach4, did you run it as admin? If not, Id try that first. It may be the installer needed higher
permissions to install the driver.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: October 26, 2015, 09:45:02 PM »

Monito:

   SO if you enter Darwins configuration and try to jog , can you make the DRO count? In Mach4 does the DRO count ?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: October 26, 2015, 06:26:43 PM »

Do your DRO's move in Mach4 under Darwin? Is it possible to jog an axis from insider Darwins configurations?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: October 25, 2015, 09:49:49 PM »

Thx Peter.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: October 25, 2015, 08:50:14 PM »

Pity, I was hoping it was an error that meant something..

Thx
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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: October 25, 2015, 07:11:57 PM »

Well, Im not convinced its graphics, but very few machines report it as a problem. Its a rare report of systems that wont
run Mach4 afaik , but Ill boot into my xp system to make sure gm still runs there.. I recently changed the compiler to allow XP, and it was working as of
last test..

 You didnt mention what it does Dan? Does it just lockup, or is it giving an artcode in gm? Whats the symptom?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: October 25, 2015, 08:46:26 AM »

>>and I will just get a pokeys board and use one of

  I like them as well, and will be releaseing a motion controller based on Pokeys soon..

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: October 25, 2015, 08:42:31 AM »

Hi:

 Both Gearotic and M4 shoudl work if the VC runtime for vs2013 is applied. At worst, just install both VS2008 and vs2013 runtimes, but if that doesnt make it work,
then somethign else is stopping you. Id suispect the video card driver, both M4 and Gearotic are users of OpenGL and that is sometimes very restricted
to video drivers beign up to date. Darwin doesnt use OpenGL.. but it DOES use vs2013 runtime, so if it works, Id suspect your video driver. What exactly is the
error you get?



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