Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Wanting to load up linux

Jon the cpu is a AMD 586 133mhz It also has on it
5X86-P75
AMD-X5-133ADZ
A 9848EDP
3.45 VOLTS
I hope this helps .All this was a freebe from a friend
If I need bigger I will look for one
John



--- Jon Elson <jmelson@...> wrote:

>
>
> marble_h@... wrote:
>
> > Hi group I just got all the stuff I need I hope.
> So I can load up
> > Linux in the shop Computer here it is 586 CPU 32
> megs of ram S3
> > virge video card.
>
> Oh oh. I had serious trouble with a IBM/Cyrix 6x86
> cpu and gave up
> trying
> to install Red Hat Linux 5.2 on it. I saw something
> about changes to
> the
> kernel so that Cyrix CPUs would work with later
> versions of Linux, but
> have not tried them. I have stuck completely with
> Intel cpus since
> then.
> Is the 586 a real Pentium, or are you talking about
> a Cyrix 5x86?
> The 5x86, I think, is the same architecture as an
> Intel 486, just
> faster.
> The Linux memory pagesize is different for 486 and
> Pentium systems,
> and causes some problems in allocating the shared
> memory region.
> That problem has been solved, but a 100 MHz Pentium
> is just about
> the slowest you want for servo systems, and you want
> even more for
> a stepper system.
>
> > I think it's a fgp sound card and 720megs on the
> hard
> > drive .Now the question is How much of Linux do
> you need to load on
> > your system to then load up EMC
>
> You need the baseline workstation install, plus the
> Xwindows
> system, plus the Xwindows developer libraries
> (unless you only
> will be using pre-compiled EMC versions). You also
> need the
> TCL/Tk support, software development support, I
> think.
>
> > .. next is there a DRO that also
> > runs on linux or is Emc the same thing.
>
> EMC, on any system with encoder feedback, can be
> used as a DRO,
> whenever the axis drives are off.
>
> Jon
>
>

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