On 05/23/2010 11:13 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Do we have any recommendations for a video card and driver that >> doesn't cause problems. I loaded a machine at work with Ubuntu 10.4 >> LTS. I had two ATI cards on hand, a Rage, and a very high end ATI >> that had it's own power plugin from the computer's power supply. I >> couldn't get either of them to work worth doo-doo using either the >> generic drivers or the so-called "ATI" something or other >> drivers. Screen had dropouts, color weirdness, would flicker >> occasionally and other oddness. Since neither board would work very >> well, I ended up with an Nvidia board. But with the report problems >> of Michael and Gene, what other options do we have? >> >> Mark > > I believe I have an nvidia card in my machines driver box. Running the vesa > driver. > > Another, lesser powered box I use for the sacrificial 'goat.coyote.den' > machine, has an ATI 9200SE AGP card in it, and if I ever get around to > motorizing the feed on my resawing bandsaw with it, I believe it will be fine > with whatever drivers the 8.04 LTS install runs it with. That machine atm > has 10.4 on it, but it doesn't have the iron to run 10.4 at all well. Its > only a 1ghz athlon with 384 megs of ram, so its limits are pretty well demoed > when they have been hit. It turns into a dog with only one good leg once it > starts swapping. I have not tried to force that install into the vesa box, > but it might help a small bit as vesa doesn't seem to use as much memory.
It's weird, but the machines with the ATI boards run 8.04 just fine, but have the problems with 10.04 LTS. Maybe the video drivers are still a thing in the works. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
