Nvidia is a known problem see http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TroubleShooting#NVidia_and_ATI_graphics_cards try those solutions and any other graphics card you have lying around
Dave Caroline On 07/11/2014, alex chiosso <achio...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi to all. > I've built a new desktop pc (honestly I bought the hw components a couple > of years ago) to use it for LCNC application hoping to get a good latency > numbers . > The mother board is an ASUS P5KPL SE ; > The Graphic Card is an ASUS EN8400GS 512MB based on the GeForce 8400GS chip > ; > The Processor is an Intel Pentium E6500 Dual Core ; > The Ram is a 2GB DDR2 800Mhz ; > The HD is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ; > > I've installed LCNC using the pre-compiled version CD 2.6.1 with Debian > Wheezy . > > After the installation done and the upgrade using the update manager I ran > the Latency test application to see the latency numbers and the test was > not good (I mean about 70000 Max Jitter on both the threads) . > > I've not modified the GRUB for ISOLCPU=1 yet . > > But what I can see is that the Nvidia Card is not using the proprietary > drivers . > > I tried few different ways using "solutions" from the net but there is no > way to get the Nviadia drivers to be loaded properly. > > I post the files : > - Xorg.0.log.old that show some information on the Nvidia drivers loading > issue ; > - Xorg.0.log that show the information after a correct startup of the PC > without invoking the use of the Nvidia proprietary Drivers. > > The last test I did was reinstalling the LCNC CD (so a clean of all the > Nvidia trials tests I did) and try this solution > <https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#configure> from the Official > Debian Wiki site . > > The problem is that with the invoking of the Nvidia Drivers load procedure > I can't get the system booting completely and the display is showing a > blinking cursor. > > Maybe the system stops when is loading (or trying to load) the Nvidia > Drivers . > > The only way-out that I found is to remove (or rename) the file > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d > > and perform a system reboot. > > As it's clear I'm not familiar with Linux to be able to solve this > issue so I'm asking your help. > > > Regards > > Alex > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
