Re: Slic3r --gui won't run
On Tuesday 21 July 2020 02:43:52 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Lu, 20 iul 20, 13:52:38, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday 20 July 2020 13:01:17 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > On Lu, 20 iul 20, 12:24:35, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > FWIW, it installs and runs fine on a pi4 running buster 10.4.
> > > > But I don't have space close enough to the pi4 to put the
> > > > printer within reach of it. I've 3 other machines, all running
> > > > wheezy because thats the last RTAI kernel the linuxcnc folks
> > > > have built, but wheezy of course is done, so if I want to put
> > > > slic3r on one of those, I'll have to build it from scratch.
> > >
> > > And buster doesn't work with that kernel because... ?
> >
> > Generally a lack of support for newer hardware, its a
> > 3.20-something-RT, that claims PAE but does not work above 3 gigs of
> > installed memory, using swap by the gigabyte if you try. But its the
> > best we have for realtime on wintel style hardware.
>
> Most of the hardware support is in the kernel and as far as I can tell
> buster should run with a 4.2 kernel (required by systemd).
No clue aboutthe pi's. They don't have an RTAI kit as its not portable to
the arms, but a 4.19 built right on the pi, for armhf works reasonably
well.
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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