On 10/29/2010 09:27 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > > Steve: > > Listen to the voice of wisdom from Mark. > > I just booted an ASUS AT5NM10-I board, equipped with a 2GB Crucial > memory module, into EMC2 LiveCD mode from a USB memory stick. Prior to > booting I had disabled HyperThreading and set the parallel port to EPP > mode using the onboard BIOS-setup utility. > > Once Ubuntu boots, look for "parport" lines in the output from the > command line program dmesg. In my case, dmesg reports: > > partport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] > > confirming the port functionality I chosen in the BIOS setup. > > FYI, I used the latest EMC2 LiveCD file > (ubuntu-10.04-linuxcnc1-i386.iso) and booted it from a memory stick > configured with PenDriveLinux.com's multiboot usb program. I love this > utility. It allows me to boot a number of different .iso files without a > lot of hassle. The only drawback is that some distributions create .iso > files that boot in an incompatible fashion, but everything in the Ubuntu > constellation has worked for me. > > To coin a phrase, my fingers never left my hands. > > Regards, > Kent
Kent, In the military, we used to call that "PFM"... ;-) Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
