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[Billie Walsh]

On 11/09/2014 07:23 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 09 November 2014 07:00:22 Billie Walsh did opine
> And Gene did reply:
>> On 11/09/2014 01:30 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
>>> 1-Install a well supported video card from AMD (ATI, Radeon) or
>>> NVidia so that you don't need to depend on the Openchrome driver, or
>> We just bought a couple of very nice ATI/Radeon video cards from
>> Newegg* at a very good price. They are kind of upper mid range as
>> video cards go. Plenty of onboard memory of their own so no shared
>> memory. I think we only paid twenty-some dollars each for them. Using
>> the Catalyst driver they work great in 14.04.
>>
>> * - Standard disclaimers apply. - I receive no income or other benefit
>> [ other than good prices for stuff ] from Newegg.
> It may be that later installs than mine can tolerate catalyst, but the
> last time I tried it on a box I was going to use for linuxcnc, it was
> unusable because it got its performance by locking out IRQ's for very
> extended lengths in terms of machine time, several 100's of milliseconds
> at a time when the box MUST deal with stepper motor pulse generation every
> 20-50 microseconds, which wasn't any better than our regular drivers for
> an R600 based card, and would wreck parts, cutting tools or even machines.
> I did wind up using that box for a year or so, but had to use the vesa
> driver & put up with its crappy low res screen limit.  I finally threw
> money at it & put an atom powered machine on that shelf, works far better.
> So much better that I dropped the card for another box just like it to run
> my lathe too, about a month later.  Best $550 I ever spent on puter
> hardware.
>
> I tried to install catalyst on this machine, failed, wouldn't even boot,
> had to wipe & reinstall.  Thank $diety for amanda, never lost a byte.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

Well, we all use our machines for different purposes. I don't have any 
CNC machines so that's not an issue for me. I do a little bit of 
graphics editing with Gimp. I do web pages with Bluefish. Surf the web 
for information. And, e-mail. Catalyst does quite well for my purposes

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