Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] BDI

Hi Jon,

Comments below.

Jon Elson wrote:

>
> Alan Marconett KM6VV wrote:
>
> >
> > The first problem (?) I had was in the video board/monitor choices. I
> > had put in an old Trident 9000 512 kb controller, and a Toshiba 17"
> > monitor I had. Monitor not on the list, but I determined H & V sync
> > rates, and put in the numbers (OK?) I tried the "test", but other then
> > a few flashes and clicks of the monitor, I didn't see any "graphics
> > screen" (Am I supposed to see something?), and the 512K selection was
> > deleted upon the return to the text setup screens. I continued.
>
> My method of dealing with video is to get the system fully installed
> and then tweak the video with the xvidtune program. Most of the
> older mainstream video cards will do all the standard stuff with
> the svga driver. The Trident cards (I've used a number of Trident 8900's
> with good results) have good frequency synthesizers for the pixel
> clock, so you have a very wide range of frequencies available to
> get just the perfect display. Once I find good parameters with xvidtune,
> I then put those into /etc/X11/XF86Config so i can select from several
> video modes.

I never did see the "Graphics Screen OK" dialog, so I suspect that it
wasn't correct enough to allow it to work. But I'll try xvidtune when I
get it up.

>
> >
> > The setups suggests about 15-20 min of time to copy all the "packages",
> > that starts but never finishes (I tried different builds, I think the
> > developer finished, but hung on the post stuff).
>
> Your main partition may be running out of space.
> You had 2 GB in the E partition? That should be enough, though.

>
> Jon
>

Yeah, 2 Gb in a DOS partition (FAT). I would have thought there would
be a message if it ran out of space, I'll be trying again, soon as I get
the video to pass.

Thanks for the comments.

Alan KM6VV