Douglas Pollard wrote: >I bought a used IBM Think Centre 3 ghz. intel chip that after a latency >test proved to be useless in running EMC2. I also have an Hp dual >core 64 bit machine that is my personal desktop machine. 2.4 ghz 1 g >ram I thought EMC2 would not run on it. > EMC2 should run just fine - our kernel doesn't really care if there are extra cores around. It just doesn't use them.
>I recently saw someplace on line >saying it could run on one of the chips but not both. Does anyone know >anything about this. I really don't want to go looking for another used >computer. > > This is true of the "official" RTAI kernel we provide. A user has kindly built multiprocessor-aware RTAI kernel packages, which are at <http://www.linuxcnc.org/experimental/hardy/smp/>. Use at your own risk, no support, etc. etc. I believe several people have tried this kernel, and I don't know of any problems with it, but of course your mileage may vary. There is no liveCD with the SMP kernel, so you have to install EMC2-Ubuntu, then manually download and install the SMP kernel packages (which can be done with the GUI by right-clicking on them and selecting "install using Gdebi"). - Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
