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Topic: Soliddoodle, Ubuntu, and Repetier

I have posted this on Ian Johnson's site as well, but thought I would seek this forum's help as well. 

Got my new solidoodle, and had it working fine with a windows xp laptop, replicatorg, skeinforge, and pronterface. VERY Impressive, except for the sw errors after slicing.. I am an educator and need to move this all to open source for the classroom ($ reasons). Am now running edubuntu 12.04.01, on a dell laptop, with repetier and slic3r. Love the visuals of slic3r. But, when I bring up repetier, all looks good, except that I cannot connect correctly to the solidoodle. I have the 112,500 baud rate, and have enabled the dialout privileges, The odd thing is, repetier says I am connected ( and a slight sound comes from the doodle), but nothing happens at the printer end in terms of manual control or printing a file. I am about ready to give up. Has anyone gotten the repetier/slic3r to work on ubuntu? If I have to reset, has anyone gotten the repg/pronterface/skeinforge to work on ubuntu.

Thanks all!
Bob Muller

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Re: Soliddoodle, Ubuntu, and Repetier

Welcome, Baud rate must be set to 250000

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Re: Soliddoodle, Ubuntu, and Repetier

250000 apparently isn't working for Linux.    Is there power to the printer, lights and fan?  The board is powered by USB so you can connect and read temperatures even if there isn't power from the AC.

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Re: Soliddoodle, Ubuntu, and Repetier

Yes - there is power to the printer, the lights and fans are on. 

The temp control (extruder/bed) do not give accurate readings, they never change when I select to heat the extruder and bed.

Settings are at 200 and 100 respectively.  And screen shows same actual numbers even though bed is cold.

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Re: Soliddoodle, Ubuntu, and Repetier

Hi. I made an article on the Soliwiki for this: http://soliwiki.com/Linux . You will need to change and recompile the firmware

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Re: Soliddoodle, Ubuntu, and Repetier

Followed your advice on your soliwiki posts.  Had to add gcc-avr and lib-avr to get the arduino software to work (running linux mint) but I am now connected and printing.  Thanks so much for the help.  LinuxMint+Repetier+Slic3r.  Awesome.

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Great! glad it got you up and running smile