Update problem with FreeLSS 1.26 (Page 3 of 4)

Hey Guys,

  My name is Philip Hiatt;  I piddle and mess around with Linux quite often, and I am just now getting into this 3D thing.  If you want FreeLSS to autostart at boot just like you typed "sudo freelss" in the command line.  Do not create "make startup"; if you have then Do this from shell prompt;

sudo update-rc.d freelss remove

Otherwise Do this:

1- Create a shell script in the home directory(/home/pi), ie. $ nano freelss.sh
2- Add these lines;

#!/bin/bash
sudo freelss

3- If you haven't done this already;

$ cd /home/pi
$ cd .config
$ mkdir autostart
$ cd autostart
$ nano freelss.desktop

Enter this in the new file created; "freelss.desktop"

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=/home/pi/freelss.sh
Terminal=false
Notify=false

Save, close, then restart.

After restart, then FreeLSS should start with sudo privileges.

It works for me, I think I got the instructions correct; any question or problems, I will try to help or correct them.  Hope this helps!

still waiting for help with my Atlas Scanner. I bought it from the guy that made em and it came with an SD card already loaded with software. worked OK few months then stopped letting me connect. after trying things Carl said My SD now has nothing readable when plugged into my PC and I cant load anything on the SD as all it says is its Not formatted, do you want to format. if I say NO thats end of use. and I think I said yes once following Carls suggestions but still dead end. so should I format and try loading the Master file again or what?

carl_m1968 wrote:

n2ri wrote:

still waiting for help with my Atlas Scanner. I bought it from the guy that made em and it came with an SD card already loaded with software. worked OK few months then stopped letting me connect. after trying things Carl said My SD now has nothing readable when plugged into my PC and I cant load anything on the SD as all it says is its Not formatted, do you want to format. if I say NO thats end of use. and I think I said yes once following Carls suggestions but still dead end. so should I format and try loading the Master file again or what?

I believe I told you that the format windows uses will not work on the sdcard. You have to write the image to the SDcard using a program called Etcher which formats and creates the correct directories so that the RP3 can use it. If windows still tells you the card needs to be formatted after that then the card is bad and was probably your issue from the very beginning. I have had many SDcards go bad just sitting for an extended period of time. Don't know if it's moisture or what but several had gone bad just from not being used in a while.

well I downloaded both 32bit and 64bit versions but both say only for Win7 or higher when trying to install. wont run on Win XP 32bit

carl_m1968 wrote:

n2ri wrote:

well I downloaded both 32bit and 64bit versions but both say only for Win7 or higher when trying to install. wont run on Win XP 32bit

So you only have a single PC with windows xp on it? You don't have access to one with something higher? The image does not have to be made on the PC that will be connected to the scanner.

OK used other PC and done as you said but etcher even couldnt see anything and demanded format also to proceed so formatted with Etcher,  then I tried searching that master folder after unzipping on PC looking for image, NONE found so moved folder to SD card still nothing. so I put SD card back in and turn my main PC on that the Atlas Scanner was originally setup & connected/operated on, but when I turned Atlas scanner on only 1 Red LED lit showing power the other 4 never even blinked and still wont connect so seems all that did was delete image that was on SD card so now I really am stuck waiting for this elusive image/software from the maker just to get back to square one and see why it stopped connecting in 1st place since it did have an image b4 this. also the setup instructions said when 1st powering on lasers should come on and off then reinsert SD card in PC to transfer image/OS and I didnt have any PC then with Win7 so this all sounds wrong with using Etcher etc. but that freeless master folder has NO image file in it or its 3 subfolders.

Hi n2ri,

I just emailed you a link to the SD image.  You can try writing it to the SD card with Win32DiskImager by following the instructions in the link below.  If it still doesn't work, you should try a different SD card.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati … windows.md

Uriah

n2ri wrote:

hairu526 wrote:

Hi n2ri,

I just emailed you a link to the SD image.  You can try writing it to the SD card with Win32DiskImager by following the instructions in the link below.  If it still doesn't work, you should try a different SD card.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati … windows.md

Uriah

that win32 image writer program wont even start when installed on my Win xp PC it just says proceedure start point dll not found. download page says nothing about required OS etc

You seem to only read what you want.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

This release is for Windows 7/8.1/10. It will should also work on Windows Server 2008/2012/2016 (although not tested by the developmers). For Windows XP/Vista, please use v0.9 (in the files archive).

Quoted straight from the main page even included their spelling mistake. Seems pretty informative to me. Look close at the part I put in bold.

took long time to write that time but still same result

Hi n2ri,

I just emailed you a link to the SD image.  You can try writing it to the SD card with Win32DiskImager by following the instructions in the link below.  If it still doesn't work, you should try a different SD card.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati … windows.md

Uriah

n2ri wrote:

carl_m1968 wrote:

Go to get yourself a new SDcard like was suggested and try it again. Don't assume the card is good just because the writer is returning no errors. The fact that Windows cannot see the contents of the card means the card is defective. If the image is installed Windows should be able to see the directories and their contents on the card if it was done right and the card is a known good card.

dont think so...  My IT tech Sons also have Raspberry pis with images on SD cards for various projects and unless using Linux or an app like Etcher, PCs cant see the image and only ask to format card.
plus b4 all this formatting the SD card did cause pi LED lights all 5 to come on and some flickered like traffic. plus win32diskimager has very limited features and even less instructions. I find no way to format or a couple other options etcher has. gonna search more on pages I downloaded from for better info maybe retry and then try different micro SD adapter as they also come apart and loose connections often. but as long as it took last time reading/writing it had to have loaded.

I use a RP3 ver B to run my DUV Printer. It runs NanoDLP which is a dedicated OS for DUV printers. When I create an SDcard for it using Etcher. It makes the the card act as two drives. One of them Windows says needs to be formated and no matter what you can't access it. But there will be another drive under another letter called something. In my case it is BOOT. As you can see the ROOT aand all the files are visible as well as several directories. I have to open the last file in the list and edit it to enable the Wifi on my Pi so I know I can see, edit, and save files using Windows and the Pi can still use them as well. Not sure what  you and your IT friends are doing wrong but I can do it with no issues. You can see it is a Linux OS as well.

I just have a simple card reader that plugs into any USB port and then the card plugs into it. Maybe its a Windows 10 thing that allows you to see and interact with the files, I don't know. I just know I can.