On Sunday 28 September 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: And why are my posts taking a week to get posted, this is Oct 4, 2008, my 74th birthday, and I actually sent this on the 28th of Sept., 2008.
Something is busted, big time. >On Saturday 27 September 2008, Jon Elson wrote: >>Gene Heskett wrote: >>> I don't know if this has any bearing or not for you, but I have an nvidia >>> card on my emc box, and had to switch it to use the vesa driver to get >>> that under control. The nvidia binary blob was truly terrible, the nv >>> driver was better, and the vesa driver was the best. >> >>Hmm, probably best to NOT use high-end gaming video boards on a >>real-time system. >>I have had a LOT of trouble using stock drivers on nvidia. Generally, I >>get outright crashes, screen freezes, and other nasty artifacts, and >>have to install the nvidia custom driver right away after the install. >>(For instance, on this machine I am typing on, I had 3 crashes before I >>got around to doing the nvidia driver install, they all looked like >>video problems. After putting in the proprietary driver, it has been >>stable. Unstable CNC controls are NOT a good idea!) >> >>Jon > >It's been exactly the opposite here on this house box Jon. I was running > the nvidia card, and their driver, but I had lots of disk corruption that > required long sessions with e2fsck, and on 2 occasions got the boot drives > LSN0 wiped clean. I switched to an ati card and the radeon driver, end of > problem, but google sketchup won't run on it. About a month ago I >reinstalled the nvidia card and its driver using an old, still compatible >kernel just to see if sketchup would run, and it does, but it took it just > 11 hours to trash a drive again. e2fscking a 500GB drive is at best a > boring job. > >Obviously I'm back on the ati card. > >This mobo may wind up in the emc box at some point, I have a fawncy ASUS >board, a phenom quad core, 4GB of ram and some newer pci-e cards just > waiting for me to find my round tuit and build it. :) > >>------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >> challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win >> great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event >> anywhere in the world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >>Emc-users mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Beware of geeks bearing graft. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
