Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC-BDI is not my friend....

On Saturday 13 September 2003 2:57 am, Vince Negrete wrote:

> They are all great versions and BDI-Live seems so automated for its small
> packaged format that seems to only be installed in memory, BUT.... Theres
> always a butt..
>
> It seems not one of these people have considered updating video drivers...
> Maybe I'm missing something and there is a RPM of drivers that I need???

BDI-Live uses the latest set of released drivers from xfree86.org. Upgrading
BDI-2.xx and BDI-TNG to uses these is NOT a trivial task - There is neither
the man power or resources to devote.

> SUSE-Linux installs great and Automatically configures my video (which is
> an On-the-Motherboard VIA video) as a Trident Cyberblade/i1 with resolution
> of 1280x1024 and Color Depth of 16bit w/ no 3D Accel.   This driver works
> great!   I wish there was a way of importing it into Redhat 7.2 or any of
> the versions of EMC, but I cant find it and dont know what file to
> configure if I do find it.  What would I configure so that Xconfigurator
> see's it?

Two points here... 1) SuSE has quite likely tweaked XFree86 in some areas and
have a few enhancements in the hardware detection. 2) EMC is only an
application that runs under linux (like Turbocnc runs under DOS).

To upgrade XFree86 on any Red Hat box, I'd recommend going to www.redhat.com
and using the RPMs from the updates directories most suited to your system.
If you are on a RH6 based install and want to run the latest XFree86, then
you could always compile from source.

With BDI-Live, you could try booting with :
morphix xmodule=vesa
at the boot promt - These motherboards that share main memory with the
graphics may not perform as well as expected for _any_ realtime application.
This is one of reasons that the Live CD was created - So that you could test
a computer before installing Linux and EMC.

Out of interest, how long would it take to install and configure Windows 95
on this MoBo ?

Regards, Paul.

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