On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Kent A. Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
> Cutting to the chase in our conversation about Don Stanley's old
> motherboard and graphics card...
> > In summary; I believe my old video cards can be propped up to have
> > passable latency for now. I also believe I will have the same problem
> > again when I need to update ubuntu and/or EMC2.
> >
> > To avid this prolonged agony I would like to install simple Video cards
> > that do the job for the foreseeable future With EMC2 and my processors.
> > Anyone who could make an informing suggestion for such a card;
> > my heartfelt
> > Thanks
> > Don.
>
> Don:
>
> Were I in your situation with your goal of "the foreseeable future", I
> would go the whole hog and replace both motherboard and graphics card.
> The integrated motherboards we've been discussing recently, such as the
> Intel D510MO, cost less than $100 and just need a memory stick to get
> going. To be sure, they are dramatically smaller and will require some
> cleverness if you wish to recycle your existing case and probably will
> need an adapter harness to mate to an existing older power supply.
>
I was grudgingly coming to the same conclusion. I did some comparisons
today. I could not believe the fastest computers in the shop with minimum
graphics (the AMD Atahlon 64 4000+ we have trying to fix) only performs
slightly better than a Pentium IV 400MHZ running EMC2.
I think the Intel D510MO is the way to go. Now my big task is to
determine cables and adaptors needed for compatibility with my
four year old case power supply, IDE disk drive, printer port, etc.
This is going to be an extra effort for me living on the back side of the
moon in the Appalachian mountains where the nearest computer store
isn't, and all this has to be done on the Internet.
If Anyone has a list of things needed it would be a life extender for me.
Also if anyone has a favorite online store for these items I could work
and live even longer.
>
>
> I have to run. I'll answer your question about changing Linux boot
> parameters later if no one else beats me to it.
>
I think found the starting place. While testing some slower computers
I saw the grub message long enough to recognize the way in.
>
> Regards,
> Kent
>
To all who helped;
I really appreciate the effort to get the old computers working.
I was slow to believe a computer that did so will on
M$ Windows 2000 PRO and the other CNC package could
do so miserable with the super EMC2. Another weird huh.
Thanks again
Don
>
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