Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I use a D945GSEJT (single core atom 1.6GHz) in that kind of configuration - I've disabled X11, so I always boot to a command prompt. I have a KVM if I need it. Jitter - 6873/6755. When running a desktop it glitches to about 15000. Interestingly, if I'm running latency-test then startx, my

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/08/2012 06:27 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: I had a few minutes this afternoon and decided to try another experiment with this board---still running Ubuntu 10.04LTS with the 2.6.32-122-rtai kernel. I disabled Gnome (which shut down X) on the board by running the following from the command

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/9/2012 5:20 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: On 01/08/2012 06:27 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: I had a few minutes this afternoon and decided to try another experiment with this board---still running Ubuntu 10.04LTS with the 2.6.32-122-rtai kernel. I disabled Gnome (which shut down X) on the board by

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/9/2012 12:17 AM, Jon Elson wrote: Kent A. Reed wrote: possible even install RTAI and EMC2 over a Ubuntu server distribution to avoid the Gnome/X-server stuff altogether, since there's the usual niff-naff about booting Ubuntu desktop edition without a monitor attached, etc. I have a

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/09/2012 09:22 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/9/2012 5:20 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: On 01/08/2012 06:27 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: I had a few minutes this afternoon and decided to try another experiment with this board---still running Ubuntu 10.04LTS with the 2.6.32-122-rtai

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Les Newell
Some kernel mode display drivers can make X fail to start if they don't find a monitor. See this page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting so see how to turn off KMS for your driver. You will have to create an xorg.conf to manually specify the driver and monitor. I had to do this for

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/09/2012 10:52 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/9/2012 9:57 AM, Les Newell wrote: Some kernel mode display drivers can make X fail to start if they don't find a monitor. See this page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting so see how to turn off KMS for your driver. You will have

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/9/2012 9:56 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: On 01/09/2012 09:22 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/9/2012 5:20 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: On 01/08/2012 06:27 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: I had a few minutes this afternoon and decided to try another experiment with this board---still running Ubuntu 10.04LTS

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Les Newell
Sorry Kent, For some reason I thought you were still running an X server. My bad. Les On 09/01/2012 15:52, Kent A. Reed wrote: Maybe I'm just being thick this morning, but why would I want to start an X11-server on a machine lacking a monitor? Regards, Kent

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/9/2012 10:59 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: On 01/09/2012 10:52 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/9/2012 9:57 AM, Les Newell wrote: Some kernel mode display drivers can make X fail to start if they don't find a monitor. See this page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSettingso see how to turn

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Jon Elson
Kent A. Reed wrote: Interesting, Jon. I've been told that Ubuntu desktop edition stalls during boot if it doesn't detect a monitor. There's a lot of blog entries out there devoted to how to make a VGA plug to fool your system into thinking a monitor is present. Well, easy enough to test

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Jon Elson
Mark Wendt wrote: On 01/09/2012 10:52 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/9/2012 9:57 AM, Les Newell wrote: Some kernel mode display drivers can make X fail to start if they don't find a monitor. See this page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting so see how to turn off KMS

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 12:20 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: ... snip No, it is much broader than that. If X is not running on the server machine, then any client that wants to use ANY X program on the server will not be able to make an X connection. You would be able to make ssh connections with

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-09 Thread andy pugh
On 9 January 2012 18:20, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: and use any command-line program Keystick? Keystick, a character-based screen graphics program suitable for minimal installations (without the X server running). http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gui_keystick.html -- atp The idea

[Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-08 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: Recently, I wrote... I just ran 15-minute latency tests on my ASUS AT5NM10-I board (which is equipped with an Intel Atom D510 cpu) first with a stock boot and then with isolcpus=1 as a boot parameter. I've posted my results in the table on the Wiki. In brief, isolating

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-08 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 08, 2012 07:25:36 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: Gentle persons: Recently, I wrote... I just ran 15-minute latency tests on my ASUS AT5NM10-I board (which is equipped with an Intel Atom D510 cpu) first with a stock boot and then with isolcpus=1 as a boot parameter. I've

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-08 Thread Jon Elson
Kent A. Reed wrote: possible even install RTAI and EMC2 over a Ubuntu server distribution to avoid the Gnome/X-server stuff altogether, since there's the usual niff-naff about booting Ubuntu desktop edition without a monitor attached, etc. I have a non-EMC project where I run an EMC-Live

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-08 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
is to have emc completely controlled by my pendant so it will be headless. -Original Message- From: Kent A. Reed [mailto:knbr...@erols.com] Sent: Monday, 9 January 2012 10:28 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom