On Tuesday 08 September 2020 04:56:04 andy pugh wrote: > Yesterday I decided I needed yet another PC to do a test install of > the LiveCD (as I did not want to wipe my triple-booting test machine > which has all the Mesa cards on it, and my old D510MO was > demonstrating why it is no longer my mill controller. > > I bought the cheapest x86 machine that Amazon had on same-day delivery > (ordered at 1100, arrived 1830) which turned out to be: > https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B089RDVP7F > Though at the time I ordered it the price was £84 delivered (€92, > $109, 1825ZAR) as it was on a flash deal. > It has 4GB ram, a 64GB SSD and comes with Windows 10 pre-installed and > UEFI > > LinuxCNC installation hit two minor bumps, which is the main reason > for this email. > > 1) The Wifi chip needs proprietary drivers. The installer does not > appear to know how to get these. > 2) Installation of Grub2 failed the first time. Google suggested that > it would succeed if the machine had a network connection, and by > plugging in an ethernet connection the process went smoothly. > > Having installed LinuxCNC and the Buster preempt kernel, the latency > is, well, unspectacular. It runs at about 120uS or 120,000nS which is > certainly not good enough for hardware stepping, but with no parallel > port or other GPIO this isn't really relevant. It ought to work with a > Mesa ethernet card but that is not yet tested. > 119 lbs but cannot ship to the us. And considering its an atom, horrible latency. I have see as little as 12 ns out of my pi4 if nothing else is disturbing it. firefox, browsing the web = 200ns but never gets any worse. With an spi drive to a mesa 7i90 it simply doesn't care. It Just Works.
> It's tiny. About as thick as a Pi and twice as wide. It comes with a > bracket to mount it on the back of a monitor or TV. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users