On Saturday 27 September 2008, Jon Elson wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> I don't know if this has any bearing or not for you, but I have an nvidia >> card on my emc box, and had to switch it to use the vesa driver to get >> that under control. The nvidia binary blob was truly terrible, the nv >> driver was better, and the vesa driver was the best. > >Hmm, probably best to NOT use high-end gaming video boards on a >real-time system. >I have had a LOT of trouble using stock drivers on nvidia. Generally, I >get outright crashes, screen freezes, and other nasty artifacts, and >have to install the nvidia custom driver right away after the install. >(For instance, on this machine I am typing on, I had 3 crashes before I >got around to doing the nvidia driver install, they all looked like >video problems. After putting in the proprietary driver, it has been >stable. Unstable CNC controls are NOT a good idea!) > >Jon > It's been exactly the opposite here on this house box Jon. I was running the nvidia card, and their driver, but I had lots of disk corruption that required long sessions with e2fsck, and on 2 occasions got the boot drives LSN0 wiped clean. I switched to an ati card and the radeon driver, end of problem, but google sketchup won't run on it. About a month ago I reinstalled the nvidia card and its driver using an old, still compatible kernel just to see if sketchup would run, and it does, but it took it just 11 hours to trash a drive again. e2fscking a 500GB drive is at best a boring job.
Obviously I'm back on the ati card. This mobo may wind up in the emc box at some point, I have a fawncy ASUS board, a phenom quad core, 4GB of ram and some newer pci-e cards just waiting for me to find my round tuit and build it. :) >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge >Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in > the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) It's as BAD as you think, and they ARE out to get you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
