Instrument Handbook
Welcome to the MagAO-X Instrument Handbook.
Table of contents
- Information For Observers
- Operation of the MagAO-X instrument
- Testbed Operation
- Troubleshooting
- Figuring out what exactly isn’t working
- Addressing specific issues
- Shared memory image problems with “No space left on device” errors
- Loop failing to close for no apparent reason and/or intermittent failures of CACAO calibration process
- Lockup / Missing GPUs /
nvidia-smi
errors - OCAM connectivity / bad data
- Alpao DM not responding
- DM Latency and Communication Troubleshooting
- EDT Framegrabber Problems (camwfs and camlowfs)
- Camsci1/2 not responding
- Killing INDI zombies
- Difficulties with NVIDIA proprietary drivers
- Handling Procedures
- Compute System
- Appendices
Resources
magao-x/MagAOX on GitHub