Is the motherboard AGP 8x compatible? There can be issues plugging an 8x video card into a board with a slower slot. The AGP standard has provisions for backward compatibility but they were for the most part optional. Many 8x cards are 1.5 volt only, though some can tolerate 3.3V or 5V. IIRC only AGP 1x used 5V. I found it best just to never try plugging a higher speed AGP card into a slower slot because of the potential for problems, and the slower slot always severely bottlenecked it. OTOH, PCI Express has much better backwards compatibility. Some brave people have even carefully cut slots in the front ends of shorter PCIE slots to fit cards with longer connectors. In the more money than brains category there's cutting off part of the card edge connector to plug it into a shorter slot. 'Course if it's just a very common, cheap, older x16 card, go for it, chop it down to fit a short slot. It'll work if you don't cut too high. the crazy folks throw down hundreds of $ on a new card then get out the Dremel. As for that Zotac card, I haven't laid hands on one. There are some YouTube reviews. They won't turn an olde business desktop into a high end game machine but they are considerably better than the built in chipset graphics. That's a bit of a price to pay for older GPU technology, but you're just wanting 2D GUI so it may be worth a try, if there's decent Linux support. If it doesn't work for you for LCNC it should do a fair job with Windows.
Latest x32 Linux driver for the GT710 http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/123917/en-us If you go for one of those cheap Quadro NVS 290, here's the newest x32 Linux driver with support for it. http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/123702/en-us On Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 4:19:34 PM MDT, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote: No luck. Pretty as the display is with the AGP 8x board, it seems to lock up something in the LinuxCNC part. Has anyone tried one of these with LinuxCNC? Name brand this time. Has HDMI, DVI and even VGA. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7HN5HW6133 John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
