Hi Greg, I'll answer both questions in this reply. 1. It's an ASUS K8S-MX Socket 754 MB and does specifically support AGP 8x. 2. The AGP 8x card it turns out is a Nvidia NV18 [GeForce4 MX440] 3. Latest updates installed.
How do I know what the card is? Easy. I don't loaded the ISO for Knoppix 8.1 and burned a live CD for it. Interesting result with the Motherboard VGA. Not great resolution 800x600 and the background image was totally garbled. Linux ran but surfing to a page I know had nice graphics came out looking like maybe 256 colours. So, power down, plug in the AGP 8x and reboot off the Live CD. Like the LinuxCNC live CD it went to 1280x1024. Nice wallpaper. Same process. Do things that exercise the graphics aspect of the card. Surface to the same photos. Nice. Bring in a 1200x1200 image. Set it as the wallpaper. No problem. Load the image with GIMP and start mucking around. Surf some more. Rock solid. Load Eclipse. Muck about. Load some images again. This system will not lock up. So reboot and remove the LiveCD. Reboot off the installed LinuxCNC and within about 5 minutes the only way to get it to do anything other than move the mouse around is to press the reset button. Next step will be to grab a Debian Linux LiveCD that is not set up for LinuxCNC. I might also try an umbuntu but they claim best operation is with a minimum of a dual core. I can get a dual core for this MB since the surplus place offered me one for not too much money. If the Debian LiveCD w/o LinuxCNC is flakey I'll check it out. But it's looking like a problem with the LinuxCNC version since Windows XP has also been rock solid on this box before I switched over to the Linux LiveCD. (Got tired of the you have 29 days to register this product message). John > -----Original Message----- > From: Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users [mailto:emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net] > Sent: October-17-17 9:53 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Cc: Gregg Eshelman > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] PC MB for Linux. > > Is the motherboard AGP 8x compatible? There can be issues plugging an 8x > video card into a board with a slower slot. The AGP standard has provisions > for > backward compatibility but they were for the most part optional. Many 8x > cards are 1.5 volt only, though some can tolerate 3.3V or 5V. IIRC only AGP 1x > used 5V. I found it best just to never try plugging a higher speed AGP card > into a > slower slot because of the potential for problems, and the slower slot always > severely� bottlenecked it. > OTOH, PCI Express has much better backwards compatibility. Some brave > people have even carefully cut slots in the front ends of shorter PCIE slots > to fit > cards with longer connectors. In the more money than brains category there's > cutting off part of the card edge connector to plug it into a shorter slot. > 'Course > if it's just a very common, cheap, older x16 card, go for it, chop it down to > fit a > short slot. It'll work if you don't cut too high. the crazy folks throw down > hundreds of $ on a new card then get out the Dremel. > As for that Zotac card, I haven't laid hands on one. There are some YouTube > reviews. They won't turn an olde business desktop into a high end game > machine but they are considerably better than the built in chipset graphics. > That's a bit of a price to pay for older GPU technology, but you're just > wanting > 2D GUI so it may be worth a try, if there's decent Linux support. If it > doesn't > work for you for LCNC it should do a fair job with Windows. > > Latest x32 Linux driver for the GT710 > http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/123917/en-us > > If you go for one of those cheap Quadro NVS 290, here's the newest x32 Linux > driver with support for it. > http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/123702/en-us > > On Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 4:19:34 PM MDT, John Dammeyer > <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote: > No luck. > Pretty as the display is with the AGP 8x board, it seems to lock up something > in > the LinuxCNC part. > > Has anyone tried one of these with LinuxCNC?� � Name brand this time.� Has > HDMI, DVI and even VGA. > https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7HN5HW6133 > John > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
