Thu, 9 Sep 2010 12:23:44 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday, September 09, 2010 12:13:11 pm Andy Pugh did opine: >> > On 9 September 2010 02:52, Gene Heskett<gene.hesk...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > > If its going to take more iron to run this, how about a suggestion for >>> > > a newer motherboard, video card etc that can do all this in real >>> > > time? >> > >> > I am not sure it makes sense to "upgrade" a working system to a >> > non-working one, then invest more money in extra hardware to fix the >> > problem. > So I am beginning to see. However, Kubuntu-6.06 was working well, but not > update able to the 2.4 emc. > >> > How did you do the upgrade? I am assuming a new LiveCD install, which >> > also installed Ubuntu 10? > Yes, from the iso just released. Even that was a problem, I had to do a > cut and splice of the little rubber belt in the dvd reader in order to get > it to load and unload the tray. Old age& heat, so I took about 1/8" out > of the belt& super glued the cut ends together again. > >> > Any problem you see is probably with the >> > Linux kernel rather than EMC2 (You could, in theory step back to 8,04 >> > and install EMC2 2.4.3 on that. I am running 2.5-pre on Ubuntu 8.04 >> > with no issues). > Where can I find that install image? > >> > At a guess I would say that the problem might be with the video >> > driver, but that is merely a guess from a position of ignorance. > I know its part of it, without an xorg.conf file, it uses the radeon driver, > and I have found the vesa driver is a requirement for emc. I have posted > to the xorg list to see if someone there can give me a hint about forcing > the vesa driver. > >> > If you want to upgrade hardware anyway, the Intel D510MO board is >> > small, cheap, silent, and works well with EMC2 using the onboard >> > video and other peripherals. > And this is size compat with a medium tower case? > > Thanks Andy. I hope this gets to the list, gmail is refusing to take my > posts at smtp.gmail.com again, so while I am using it as an address, I am > posting thru the tv stations server. Grrrr. > > -- 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) No line available at 300 baud. Gene:
Sorry to hear your tale of woe. Regarding the Radeon driver, have you read the helpful remarks at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver ? Does dmesg have anything useful to say? I endorse Andy's comment about the D510M0 board. Just remember that, unlike its predecessor the D945GCLF2, it does NOT bring out the parallel port lines to a connector on the backplane. You'll have to work something out (shouldn't be too hard for someone who first rebuilds his dvd reader on the fly!). The D510M0 is a mini-ITX board 170mm x 170mm. Size-wise, this is no problem in a medium tower case, but if your case is old enough, it may not match up with any mounting holes :-( Still, it's so dang inexpensive, how can you pass it up? Good hunting. Regards, Kent PS - to paraphrase the Gospel, those who live by the upgrade, die by the upgrade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Automate Storage Tiering Simply Optimize IT performance and efficiency through flexible, powerful, automated storage tiering capabilities. View this brief to learn how you can reduce costs and improve performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
