On Monday, September 20, 2010 09:58:05 am Kent A. Reed did opine: [...] > Now we're cooking, Don. > > I did a little web searching with your info. > > 1. I found a thumbnail description of the "mach speed MK8-939A" > motherboard at http://www.machspeed.com/specs/viper/MK8-939A.html > Unfortunately, this description doesn't identify the bios, but it's > better than nothing. Off hand, I'd say this m/b will work ok with the > latest EMC2 distribution based on Ubuntu 10.04 but you may need to > explore the BIOS settings. > > 2. the "Applied Graphics Products Jeronimo J2/N" video card is probably > an "Appian..." for which I found a thumbnail description at > http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/graphics-cards/A-B/APPIAN-TECHNOLOGY-CGA-VGA > -TARGA-XVGA-JERONIMO-J2-N-29.html
That looks like the one I have. > According to this description, the board is based on a Cirrus Logic GD > 5462 graphics chip. You should be able to confirm this by executing > "lspci" at a command line prompt and looking for a line in the output > that starts "nn:nn.n VGA compatible controller...." It's an old but > still serviceable chip. [editorial note - before I could send this > message I saw Gene Heskett's response. Maybe I should retract > "serviceable".] TBT guys, I didn't attempt to get it up to full 1600x1200 resolution. The vesa driver, running blind, picked a 'safe' 640x400'. The rest of the box was pretty slow too, a 1Ghz Athlon & 384 megs of non interlaced ram. I found an ATI card that wouldn't run in this box that ran much better than the Appian did in that box, but have not actually tried to move motors with it yet. The box is so big I haven't figured out where I could hang it on my bandsaw, whereas that little intel D510 and a small monitor could hang on the back of the blade channel if I could get around it easily. In my next incarnation, please give me more real estate for a bigger shop... > You can look at /etc/X11/xorg.conf to see what driver is being loaded > (in mine, for example, under section "Device" it says 'Driver "intel"'). > I would expect the svga driver would work for you. If you look down the > responses to the query in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=47368 > you'll see some useful advice about using the command "dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xorg" to reconfigure the X server or alternatively forcing the > kernel to load the cirrusfb driver at startup. > > Don't sweat the spelling of Schultz. Many years ago I was a military > brat living in Germany. Now, I can't write S and H without putting a C > in between them. The hard part was figuring out the reference to > "Hogan's Heros." As Jon says, "I know nothing! NOTHING!!!!" > > Hope this helps. > > Regards, > Kent -- 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) 'Tis the dream of each programmer, Before his life is done, To write three lines of APL, And make the damn things run. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
