Re: can't start KDE with 2 monitorsz
On Friday 20 March 2015 05:09:01 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 20 March 2015 00:11:13 Ric Moore wrote:
> > On 03/19/2015 11:37 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Thursday 19 March 2015 21:38:15 Ric Moore wrote:
> > >> On 03/19/2015 09:19 PM, James wrote:
> > >>> I want them to fix nouveau. :-)
> > >>
> > >> Last I saw it still wasn't accelerated.
> > >
> > > Still isn't, Ric.
> > >
> > >> Two monitors you might need to
> > >> set up randr.
> > >
> > > Rotsa ruck at that.
> > >
> > >> Good luck waiting on nouveau, which is like waiting on
> > >> Godot. :) Ric
> > >
> > > Actually, the wait is far more in the distro's reticence to keep up
> > > with the X drivers. The kernels nouveau support does advance, but
> > > the X support does not. As I said less than 24 hours ago in another
> > > profanity laden post, I cannot run a new kernel on this wheezy
> > > install because the wheezy X is too old, and the miss-match between
> > > the X nouveau support and the kernels nouveau support is a display
> > > speed (freezing for 30 seconds at a time while the sound is
> > > stuttering 1/4 second on, 1/4 second off) killer, while the video
> > > when it does restart, runs at 20K frames a sec to catch up.
> > >
> > > So I am stuck with a 3.4-9amd64 kernel as the newest I can run and
> > > have a fighting chance of watching a news video from one of the
> > > mainsleaze sites. So I am waiting until Ubuntu 15.04.2 LTS or so,
> > > when the guys at linuxcnc might put together a distro I can use WITH
> > > more than 2G of memory. The 8g that isn't recognized in this
> > > machine, running a 32 bit non-pae kernel, puts me a gigabyte into
> > > swap in 24 hours, and we all know how fast that runs.
> >
> > Maybe create another partition, run that CNC program under windows so
> > you can just install an nvidia driver to enjoy the Linux half?? My two
> > GT-520 nvidia cards, with two gigs of vram apiece cost me about $70
> > each and today they would be cheaper still. They run great.
> >
> > Here's a great SECRET which I suppose I can reveal now. At RedHat, in
> > 2000, they had one machine running Windows hidden back in the locked
> > RedHat "Hardware Approved" testing room. It ran the automatic CD
> > duplicator and labeling machine for the old Boxed Set. There was no
> > Linux equivalent to run the software required for the machine. So,
> > they ran Windows to GET THE JOB DONE. I see no crime there. So, if
> > that is what it takes, install Windows for the CNC chores so you can
> > enjoy Linux as the desktop. To me, it computes! Plus, you'll live
> > longer! :) Ric
[snip].
>
> Unfortunately windows does not have, nor would it allow the sub 2
> microsecond access time to the hardware that linux, with the
> appropriately RTAI patched kernel, does. There is no linuxcnc version
> ever, that runs on windows, and quite likely never will be such a beast.
> So to me, windows is a problem to which there is no solution.
So run two copies of Linux in two separate partitions instead. Run one for
cnc, and the other for desktop with all the graphics bells and whistles
Nvidia can invent, and all the Nvidia drivers they supply. If you want a
newer kernel for your desktop than cnc allows, run Wheezy for cnc in one
partition and Jessie for desktop in another
Ubuntu 15.04 won't be LTS. 14.04 is LTS. 16.04 will be LTS.
And why can't you use more than 2G memory with Wheezy? I do! Or are you
running 32 bit hardware and is that the problem?
Lisi
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