I think this thread says it all about this particular GeForce MX 440 and Linux. I tried apt-get for envyng-gtk and it no longer exists. https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1029381 But it looks like back in 2009 there wasn't a lot of support from NVidia for this board. I wonder why it works so well with Knoppix? 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
