On 05/23/2010 06:18 PM, Dave wrote: > From what I have gathered 10.4 suffers from similar video problems that > 9.10 did. One issue is that 9.10 and apparently also 10.4 oftentimes > can't access the video screen correctly to determine the screens > capabilities. > > If you use the Vesa driver and you know your screen resolution, you can > force the Vesa driver to set the video which apparently gets rid of some > of the screen flickering issues etc. > > Another user, and then I found that the D510 intel board with the > onboard intel GMA3150 video had an issue with 9.10 so I wrote up a work > around for the D510 board. If you are going to use the Vesa driver > perhaps this would be some help. > > Go to this page... > > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?EMC_Ubuntu91 > > And scroll down to the bottom where it says: "*Note Relating to "cannot > load the i810 module" error when first booting compiled Kernel:*" > > The "xorg.conf.failsafe" file is setup to use the Vesa driver.. so > this procedure just sets things up so the vesa driver is used and then > describes how to set the config file so it is optimal for the monitor > you have connected. > > This doesn't fix any Linux issue, it is really a work around. > > Dave
Ah, figures. I mentioned to Gene in the previous email that I didn't have any problems in 8.04 (didn't try the 9.10 version so I didn't notice the video problems there). Other than ATI and NVidia, are there other decent video cards, or have they pretty much taken over the field? Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
