On Saturday, September 17, 2011 01:50:49 AM Keith Hoard did opine: > Gentlemen, > > I purchased a refurbished IBM ThinkCentre PC to use as a controller > for a V90 Fireball CNC router. I'm currently trying to get the PC tuned > up and ready for the arrival of the machine. > > Everything is going well with the Linux/EMC2 install. The problem is > that the latency Max Jitter will start out right at 5000 to 6500-ish > then jump to 120,000. If I reset the statistics, it will stay low for > (usually) exactly 30 seconds then jump up again. > > I read the Wiki and it suggests an SMI problem. I've tried > everything else to no avail. I've installed an ATI S9250 video card, > turned off everything in the BIOS, and added additional RAM. The BIOS > won't let me disable the "on board" video, only select which one is > used at boot-up. I am also having a hard time finding the correct ATI > driver, there seems to be alot of them listed in the Ubuntu repository. If you have the driver set to 'ati' in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, this driver queries the card and loads the correct driver for that card.
> After reading the WIki, I'm thinking I'll need some guidance if I have > to shut off the SMI. I don't understand if SMI is shut off with a > hardware switch, or thru software. I couldn't find any reference in > the BIOS. > > I've read the warnings and like Sir Robin, I am willing to face the > danger. > > Here are the specs: > IBM ThinkCentre - Intel i848/i865 Chipset > Pentium 4, 2.7 GHz > 1 GB RAM > ATI S9250 Video Card (256M RAM) > Wireless-G Network Card > > Thanks in advance for any assistance!! > > Keith Hoard > Collierville, TN > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Laughter is the closest distance between two people. -- Victor Borge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
