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The Rigol DS1052E
wd5gnr:
Another success story with the .02 firmware. Works great. Now I'll be motivated to fix all that stuff I've been putting off.
The only problem I've run into is that XP running in Virtual Box doesn't want to load the Rigol USB drivers. Not sure if it is because I had National Instruments driver (which finds the scope by the way) or if it some weirdness with VirtualBox/Linux. But regardless I'm not so keen on Ultrascope anyway.
Thanks for the videos Dave.
TheDirty:
Is there an alternative to Ultrascope or 64bit drivers for it? Running Win7 64bit and there is only 32bit drivers provided.
marianoapp:
download and install this http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/1605/lang/en
you can also mod the scope through usb with that
RayJones:
361 MB :o
wd5gnr:
I did some more experimenting with Ultrascope last night. The VID/PID for the Rigol looks different on my VirtualBox setup. I changed the .inf file to suit and it allowed the drivers to load and I see the scope in device manager. However, Ultrascope never did work. RS232 doesn't work either (although in Linux the usbtmc interface works so the scope works).
So I tried it on a dual boot laptop with Vista. At first didn't work until I loaded the right version of the VISA drivers. But even then it didn't work right. The "Virtual Panel" works well. But trying to load a waveform to a datasheet causes the program to disconnect from the scope and tells me "Unable to read data from device" or some such.
Ultrascope isn't a deal breaker. But it bugs me that I can't make it work. And the virtual panel is reasonable enough. However, if I were going to really use it I need it to work under Linux or Windows in Virtual Box and that looks like a no go.
I'm surprised COMEDI doesn't support usbtmc (http://www.comedi.org/). If it did, you could use xoscope under Linux. I haven't found any "scope-like" software that talks usbtmc on Linux which seems odd.
Oh one other thing. On the Linux/VirtualBox side, the scope shows RMT so it hears the PC. It just doesn't work well enough to connect. Why it doesn't work with serial though is a mystery. I haven't found anything else that would not work across serial in VirtualBox. I'll have to experiment with that more later.
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