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[Gene Heskett]

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
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