It's hard to know from what you've told us. But one thing to look at is to start the machine up. do NOT start up X11. Working at the command promo on the monitor run the command "top" and you weill see cpu. memory and swap file usage that is updated about eery second.
If the computer comes up in any graphic mode you need to disable that (look in /etc/rc.d) On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Todd Zuercher <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a trick to installing Linuxcnc/Wheezy on an older single core > computer? > > I have a machine that has been happily running Linuxcnc for some time on > an older Linuxcnc Ubuntu 10,04 install. > It is an older P4 2.8gHz cpu (single core) with 1G memory and works > reasonably well with Lucid. This PC is a little bit special in that it has > some ISA slots on the motherboard and 1 ISA card is used by Linuxcnc to > interface with the machine. > > I have tried several times to test or install the newer Linuxcnc/Wheezy > iso. But it boots and runs painfully slow, and neither the latency tests or > Linuxcnc will open. Trying to start Linuxcnc from the command line tells me > nothing. > > Any ideas why this machine refuses to work with the newer version? > > -- > > ======================================== > > Todd Zuercher > mailto:[email protected] > > ======================================== > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
