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wd5gnr:
Well big senior moment. I had reported earlier that I could not get the scope to work in VirtualBox and Linux. But it does work...if you get the right software.

There were three things that were key, I think. Hopefully this will help someone else:


1) Latest NI Drivers: http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/1605/lang/en

2) The Rigol USB drivers have the wrong USB ID or something on Linux is changing the ID (vendor=1ab1,pid=0588 in Linux/VirtualBox, the Rigol.inf file vendor=0400,PID=05dc). Of course, I was so smart, I changed the INF file and got it mostly working. WRONG. Use the NI driver. What that means is in Device manager, it should say "USB Test and Measurement Device" *NOT* "Rigol USB Test and Measurement Device". If you already have the Rigol drive installed, do an update driver, tell it to Install from a list and "Don't search I will choose the driver to install." If you have the NI stuff installed you should see two choices: Rigol USB Test and Measurement Device and USB Test and Measurement Device. You want the one WITHOUT Rigol in the name.

3) The VISA version of Ultrascope (this was my big mistake, using the "regular" version). See http://www.rigol.com/templates/T_Support_en/resources.aspx?nodeid=639&contentid=1582. Even on a "plain" Vista install the regular version had small issues.

Of course, for Virtualbox, you need to go to the Devices menu and "connect" the Rigol USB device (this one will say Rigol and that's ok). You can also change your setup to add it automatically, but I'm going to assume you know how to do that.

Of course, I probably will never use the software but I wanted to make it work. I'm funny that way as are, I bet, a lot of us.


 8)
Cool!

P.S. Screen shot at http://www.hotsolder.com/2010/04/rigol-ultrascope-under-linux-with-virtualbox.html
birlan97:

--- Quote from: embedded on April 18, 2010, 06:06:11 pm ---May I suggest as many people as possible download the firmware at rcgroups.

"Contains firmware updates from July'09 for the 1000D and 1000E Rigol scopes. Along with an instructional PDF from 2008. To avoid problems, please check with Rigol to ensure your scope S/N is compatible, before updating."

Please repost outside the US. ;)

(Naturally A number of people will have this downloaded for later use perhaps in a country like Canada.)

--- End quote ---

Where I found this firmware - I'd like to modify mine to DS1102E and with my current firmware I can't
wd5gnr:
Can't prove this, mind you, but I have two anecdotal reports of people trying to do the upgrade and it would not "take" solving the problem by making sure the scope was on the system information page before they performed the upgrade. Now, of course, with just two samples it could just be random. But I did mine from the system info screen and it "took" the first time. I know on the 2.04/2.02 video demo, Dave does it from the system info screen.

So not scientific but if you are having trouble with it "taking", maybe try that. Like I say may have been the resolution to two other people who had that problem.
vr2whf:
Just spot a difference in the analog front-end between DS1052E and DS1102E

http://img198.imageshack.us/i/rigol1052vs1102.jpg/

According to the picture provided by this guy, the primary difference is the DS1102E uses the B3GA4.5Z relay to replace the smaller relay COSMO Y214S used by DS1052E.

I don't know if there is any performance difference in these analog front-end circuits.
mxmxmx:

--- Quote from: vr2whf on May 02, 2010, 07:32:31 pm ---Just spot a difference in the analog front-end between DS1052E and DS1102E

--- End quote ---

However I wonder whether this is really a difference between the DS1052E and the DS1102E or merely a difference between hardware (sub)revisions. If Rigol really made the effort to build different frontends for the scopes why didn't they hardwire the band-pass that defines the bandwidth? It makes no sense to me having frontends with different hardware on the one hand but on the other hand implementing the model selection via software.
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