Thanks Jon, I may be able to figure out the part with the resolution.. even if I have to put up with lower resolution though, I need to get OpenGL working. I've heard that the NVIDIA drivers have some issues (causing latency ) with the realtime kernel and that the opensource NV drivers are recommended?
I can't find anything on this, but will the NV drivers actually load some form of OpenGL so axis will run or am I just spinning my wheels? I don't think I loaded the proprietary Nvidia Drivers last time (I can't be sure, it was a long time ago) and axis ran just fine. Recommendations? Thanks, Michael On May 21, 2010, at 7:44 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > Michael Jones wrote: >> I'm currently having problems with a reinstall after switching some >> stuff around. >> >> I recently moved some hardware around in my shop. I decided I >> didn't >> need that nice LCD monitor on the CNC machine so I switched out a >> decent CRT monitor (Higher resolution etc). For some reason the >> system would no longer support any resolution higher than 800x600 >> (even though it had run as 1024x768 on the LCD). >> > Modern monitors have a digital communication between video card and > monitor, so the computer can sense the capabilities of the monitor. > If the computer can't get that info, it may restrict the video modes > to > those that couldn't possibly damage any monitor. It could be just the > video cable doesn't have the necessary wires to pass that info, and a > different cable would fix it. I have run into that problem myself. >> I tried installing compiling and installing NVIDIA video drivers >> which >> completely screwed things up.. >> >> I figured that I would just re-install the whole system from the new >> 2.3 ISO (after backing up my configurations and such). This was a >> bad move. My favored gui is Axis and unlike the 2.2. iso, the 2.3 >> iso did not install everything properly to run EMC with Axis on this >> system (OpenGL wouldn't work and I couldn't get it to support higher >> resolutions than 800x600). >> >> SO.. The saga continues.. I installed Ubuntu 8.04 distro, drivers >> etc.... got everything configured the way I wanted it.. (Including >> OpenGL) and then installed EMC 2.3.. as soon as the realtime kernel >> kicked in.. The NVIDIA drivers that support OpenGL would NOT work >> with >> the realtime Kernel, and NV would not support OpenGL (I'm not sure if >> this is normal or not). >> > Yeah, the Nvidia driver thing is a major hassle. And, the drivers are > specific to a particular kernel, every time you change kernel, you > have > to rebuild the driver for that kernel. > > > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
