Re: Linux-EMC suggestion

Bertho Boman wrote:

> . There seems to have been a
> lot of driver related problems and display ones. "I can only use it in 640x480 mode" and similar comments.

At least in my case, this was due to not wanting to sacrifice a good
monitor to the shop environment, oil mist, coolant, chips slung all
over, etc. I finally came across a monitor thrown away at work, and
I just had to tweak the focus adjustment a bit. It even works at
1024 x 768, but flickers a bit, as well as being hard to read, with a
14" screen. It just seems a waste to put a 17" monitor out there.

(I have a 21" monitor on my main system, in the 'office' environment.

> My assumption is
> that a newer release would have more current drivers, be better integrated and therefore have fewer installation problems.

This has some small element of truth. The Red Hat 5.2 install scripts are much better than
5.0.

Jon