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)" ><[email protected]> >To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Emc-users] VIA based Mini-ITX >Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:44:30 +0000 > >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 >[email protected] >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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
