[Emc-users] VIA based Mini-ITX
Has anyone ever used one of these little guys to run EMC? I'm mainly only concerned about the floating point math necessary to run EMC. I'm currently running on a PIII 1GHz with zero problems (at least on the PC side of things). I'm considering going in a different directions with the controls and one of these would fit perfectly into my design ideas. Specifically, I'm looking at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813153053 The plan is to add parallel ports through the addition of a PCI card, and boot from a CF card plugged into a CF-to-IDE adapter. Any thoughts would be appreciated! - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] VIA based Mini-ITX
On board video is usually a bad match for realtime linux (see "Problematic Hardware" under http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Hardware_Requirements), and with a single PCI slot you can't add both video and a parallel port. If you can find a similar board with two slots, I would get that instead and plan to add a VGA card. My first guess is that any 1GHz machine will be sufficient to run emc2, even if its math is not as fast as on high-end systems. Anyway, the marketing for the C7 says it has a "full-speed Floating Point Unit". Jeff - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] VIA based Mini-ITX
Jeff Epler wrote: > On board video is usually a bad match for realtime linux (see > "Problematic Hardware" under > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Hardware_Requirements), and with a > single PCI slot you can't add both video and a parallel port. If you > can find a similar board with two slots, I would get that instead and > plan to add a VGA card. > > My first guess is that any 1GHz machine will be sufficient to run emc2, > even if its math is not as fast as on high-end systems. Anyway, the > marketing for the C7 says it has a "full-speed Floating Point Unit". 1.3GHz C7 runs nicely and I'm not having a problem with graphics on board. DDR2 533 memory probably helps there. CN13000's only problem is that the parallel port is on a connector inside so you end up with a ribbon cable snaking out the side ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Treasurer - Firebird Foundation Inc. - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] VIA based Mini-ITX
Hi, I'm using a LV-602 mini itx board by commell, bought used on ebay 50 EUR: http://www.commell.com.tw/Product/SBC/LV-602.HTM VIA C3 cpu at 800 MHz and 256 Mb RAM. The good thing is that the cpu is not soldered on the board but is mounted on a 370 type socket, so you can change it and mount a PIII up to 1.1 GHz (they are cheap now on ebay...). I run linux ubuntu with emc2 live version (in persistent mode) booting from a 1Gb USB pen without any problem. I've tested the compact flash boot in another embedded system and it works nice, better than the USB (faster...). So my next step is to buy a CF-IDE adapter and a 1Gb or 2Gb CF to use it on my board. I'm not a linux expert, but with the help of other people on forums and other websites everything went well. Greetings from Italy, Manfredi >From: Lester Caine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > >To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" >Subject: Re: [Emc-users] VIA based Mini-ITX >Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:44:30 + > >Jeff Epler wrote: > > On board video is usually a bad match for realtime linux (see > > "Problematic Hardware" under > > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Hardware_Requirements), and >with a > > single PCI slot you can't add both video and a parallel port. If you > > can find a similar board with two slots, I would get that instead and > > plan to add a VGA card. > > > > My first guess is that any 1GHz machine will be sufficient to run emc2, > > even if its math is not as fast as on high-end systems. Anyway, the > > marketing for the C7 says it has a "full-speed Floating Point Unit". > >1.3GHz C7 runs nicely and I'm not having a problem with graphics on >board. DDR2 533 memory probably helps there. CN13000's only problem is >that the parallel port is on a connector inside so you end up with a >ribbon cable snaking out the side ;) > >-- >Lester Caine - G8HFL >- >L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk >Model Engineers Digital Workshop - >http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ >Treasurer - Firebird Foundation Inc. - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > >- >Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share >your >opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash >http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >___ >Emc-users mailing list >Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] VIA based Mini-ITX
Stan: Other replies suggest this board will work perfectly well as-is, but let's suppose for a moment that it was known not to. Instead of looking for a graphics-card solution, you could always consider getting two of these boards---the first to run EMC and the second to run an X-server against the first. Not so long ago in the evolution of computers so-called "thin client" X-terminals were all the rage. You'd just be making yours a little "thicker" by packaging it in the same enclosure with its not-so remote host:-) Regards, Kent > Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:22:32 -0500 > From: Stan Blosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Emc-users] VIA based Mini-ITX > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Has anyone ever used one of these little guys to run EMC? I'm mainly only > concerned about the floating point math necessary to run EMC. I'm currently > running on a PIII 1GHz with zero problems (at least on the PC side of > things). I'm considering going in a different directions with the controls > and one of these would fit perfectly into my design ideas. > > Specifically, I'm looking at: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813153053 > > The plan is to add parallel ports through the addition of a PCI card, and > boot from a CF card plugged into a CF-to-IDE adapter. > > Any thoughts would be appreciated! > > > > - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] VIA based Mini-ITX
They do sell an expansion card that you plug into your single pci slot to bring it out to two individual slots at 90 degrees above the board. Kyle Kent A. Reed wrote: > Stan: > > Other replies suggest this board will work perfectly well as-is, but > let's suppose for a moment that it was known not to. Instead of looking > for a graphics-card solution, you could always consider getting two of > these boards---the first to run EMC and the second to run an X-server > against the first. Not so long ago in the evolution of computers > so-called "thin client" X-terminals were all the rage. You'd just be > making yours a little "thicker" by packaging it in the same enclosure > with its not-so remote host:-) > > Regards, > Kent >> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:22:32 -0500 >> From: Stan Blosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: [Emc-users] VIA based Mini-ITX >> To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> Has anyone ever used one of these little guys to run EMC? I'm mainly only >> concerned about the floating point math necessary to run EMC. I'm currently >> running on a PIII 1GHz with zero problems (at least on the PC side of >> things). I'm considering going in a different directions with the controls >> and one of these would fit perfectly into my design ideas. >> >> Specifically, I'm looking at: >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813153053 >> >> The plan is to add parallel ports through the addition of a PCI card, and >> boot from a CF card plugged into a CF-to-IDE adapter. >> >> Any thoughts would be appreciated! >> >> >> >> > > - > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ___ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
