Sure Mach3 can have hardware issues also.. that is well documented. The usual solution is to use a different PC motherboard, which is pretty much what the LinuxCNC guys end up doing also. Mach3 is not recommended for laptops since their power saving "features" often screw things up.
I chatted with Brian Barker of Artsoft/Mach3 fame recently and he told me that the new Mach4 software is cross platform compatible and they are planning on being able to run it on Linux and dedicated hardware like the Beagle Bone.. So smart move.. and I stand corrected. He is still working on Mach4 vigorously. Has anyone heard of any new Intel Mini ITX board announcements? I thought that Intel was going to release some new Mini ITX boards either this fall or next Spring that did away with the VR video chips that have caused so many problems for Linux and were only Windows 7/8 compatible. The CPUs are on this list -- at the bottom and show a release date of 4th quarter, 2013 - NOW! http://ark.intel.com/products/family/29035 They use Intel HD graphics which should fix a lot of things for Linux users ... I hope! Dave On 10/16/2013 9:39 AM, Eric Keller wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Dr.Mclem <[email protected]> wrote: >> Mach3 gives the impression it will run on any motherboard and it not clear >> to new users what advantage if anything the rt kernel gives for that >> uncertainty. > > I can't imagine that Mach doesn't have the same problems as linuxcnc > with hardware, it's just that most naive users have step/dir hardware > so they don't really see the glitches. Unless they miss steps. But > then it's blamed on settings. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
