On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, alex chiosso wrote: > What about RAM ? (How many GB do you have?) > I do believe that with the new installation you are no more running with > the vesa driver . > Can you double check this ? > Did you already make the isolcpus=1 modification ? > I hope it is not a kernel issue due to the old hardware . > > Alex > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 4:26 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have been using Ubuntu 10.04 with LinuxCNC for about 3 years with very >> good results. I downloaded http://linuxcnc.org/binary.hybrid.iso with the >> thought of upgrading. I installed it to a new drive. I can startup and run >> ok until I try to run any of the LinuxCNC apps. The machine does not >> immediately lock up but slowly locks up over about 1 minute. I am not able >> to switch to a console or run any other commands. This is a pretty old >> machine and would prefer keep it running, I'm cheap. I would consider a >> new one but from the back and forth on this list I have no idea what >> works. Suggestions please. >> >> motherboard: K8T890-A >> processor: Athlon 64 2200 >> video: ATI Technologies Inc RV516 [Radeon X1300/X1550 Series] with vesa >> driver >> old kernel: 2.6.32-122-rtai >> new kernel: 3.4-9-rtai-686-pae >> >> Richard >>
1 GB ram I am running the vesa driver, I forced it with nomodeset Do I need isolcpus=1 with a single core processor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
