On Monday, September 20, 2010 05:49:37 am Don Stanley did opine: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Kent A. Reed <[email protected]> wrote: > > And then Don Stanley wrote: > > > Hi All; > > > I will have to plead the Shultz Defense. > > > > > > The Mill processors I am converting to EMC2 are > > > > > > Athlon 64 processor 3700+ or better with the following > > > > > > slots: > > > PCI > > > PCI-EX1 > > > PCI-EX16 > > > MGP (Mach speed graphics port). > > > > > > I am currently using left over dual monitor video cards > > > which worked fine for the old CNC package. Apparently > > > EMC2 wants better. > > > > > > Any suggestions for a Graphics Card that will make EMC2 > > > and these systems happy to do the job, and get my latency > > > test out of the ruts. > > > > > > Moving the Latency Display during the test looks like this. > > > > > > Max Intrvl(ns) Max Jitr(ns) Lst > > > > Intrvl(ns) > > > > > Servo Thread (1.0ms) 1692524 214782 996XXX > > > Base Thread (25us) 82717 47208 24XXX > > > > > > Thanks again for your many helps > > > > > > Don > > > > Don: > > > > Jon Elson's advice is good, as always, and may well fix your problem > > without further ado, but with more details about your system we might > > come up with more specific ideas. > > > > For m/b and video cards, what are the makes and models? Amounts of > > memory? > > > > Keep in mind that it is not EMC2 per se but the underlying Ubuntu > > distribution provides your video drivers. The motherboard has its own > > part to play because of the intimacy between its BIOS and the rest of > > the system hardware. RTAI has to be happy with all this so that EMC2 > > can control your mill properly. > > > > For this old fogey, the phrase "Shultz defense" brings to mind > > "Hogan's Heroes" and Sergeant Schultz. Is this what you meant? > > > > Regards, > > Kent > > Hi Jon, Kent and Jake; > I haven't tried Jon's suggestion yet; Sunday etc. > > The processor is a single core and the RAM is 1GB. > The Motherboard is a "mach speed MK8-939A".
I too use one of their boards but had to disable the onboard video. > The Video card is an Applied Graphics Products > Jeronimo J2/N. Copyright 1995 Etna Corp. I have a jeronimo, appian way 2 port board, even the vesa performance is poorly under linux. > I have forgotten how to find the Video memory size in > Windows and never knew for Linux/Unix. > The BIOS on these systems doesn't display anything > until after the long RAM test. Don't know if these > Video cards even try to display on board memory. > > I am using ubuntu 8.04 and EMC2 2.3.4.1. > I tested ubuntu 10.04 LiveCD on these systems. The load > went fine but when it was time for the video all I got was > a blank screen, although ubuntu 8.04 works fine. > The 10.04 works fine on other older systems. Weird huh? > > Yes. I didn't know how to spell Schultz and the > spell checker was confused with the missing "c". > > Thanks for any and all suggestions. > Don > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > 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) The state of innocence contains the germs of all future sin. -- Alexandre Arnoux, "Etudes et caprices" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
