Gentlemen, My personal preference for installing EMC2 is as follows: install a minimum of 256 mb ram try to use the motherboard video (keep as simple as possible) in bios - set parallel port to epp (I use Jon Elson's boards and they require EPP mode) load Ubuntu (6.06 LTS or 8.04 LTS) (depends on computer hardware) (for my touch screens I find 6.06 is the easiest to configure) update Ubuntu version to latest of the version configure everything in Ubuntu as desired (especially touch screens) download and run the install.sh for EMC2 restart computer start EMC2 from the menu to make sure it will run stop EMC2 git (a version) (I prefer trunk) follow wiki instructions for build prep go to src directory and configure (I always configure to run in place) look through the configure results to make sure configure found everything necessary if configure did not find everything then install packages to resolve dependencies and run configure again when configure has found everything then run 'make' when make has completed successfully then run 'sudo make setuid' go to the top level directory of the version you installed run 'scripts/emc' EMC2 should start and run if your touch screen was working before the EMC2 install - it will work now until you have your machine starting and running reliably you need to start EMC2 in a terminal so you can see the error messages - after you have your machine running you can copy the menu icon to your desktop and change the launch path to your compile version and use your icon to start EMC2 hth Stuart
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