Alan Browning wrote: > I'm in the beginning stages of planning a DIY CNC machine using Ubuntu and > LinuxCNC. The Problematic Hardware section of the doc says that onboard video > is problematic. And it says that the nVidia video card with native drivers is > problematic as well. The doc says to try the nv or vesa drivers, but from > what I've read those are minimal and no longer supported. I could be > mis-interpereting what I read - that's happened more than a few times before. > What do people do for card/driver combinations Pretty much all my EMC machines use on-board video, generally on Dell desktop boxes. Most of these have no problem. Perhaps this could be a problem if using software step generation, which I don't use. I use external hardware for servo systems, which is much less demanding.
What computer box are you planning on using? Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
