Is my computer suitable?

I have some problems with a just bought Chinese 6040 CNC milling machine, or rather setting up a PC for it.

I did install 10.04 on some old hardware. They are:

EP-8RDA
AMD Athlon 1200MHz (says Ubuntu)
RAM 756Mb
Graphic card: Geforce4 MX440ST (PCI card)
10.04 (your CNC version)

The PC runs OK. a little sluggish for my taste.

I run it without monitor and use 'remote desktop' from my Xp. I want to use it for LinuxCNC only, so no video, MP3, surfing etc.

The latency test gives me roughly without touching anything but testing via remote desktop:
1.000.000 / 8400 / 995000
35000 / 10500 / 25000

With Firefox and a youtube.com video running I get roughly:

1250000 / 229000 / 996000
235000 / 210000 / 25000

Is that suitable or not?

So far I wasn't able to make it run cause I have problems to translate the MACH3 pictures to LinuxCNC, but since unsuitable hardware could be a reason too I rather ask first.

mmhhm? When I open StepConfig the two 'max' values go up to 75000 + 33000

I that already bad? I mean, obviously I don't plan to use it for watching videos (even not for drawings etc). It's a pure CNC driver PC with network and remote desktop.

Hi

I don't plan to use it for watching videos (even not for drawings etc).

In which case give it a real world test and run 3 or 4 instances of GLXgears (all visible, not stacked one on top of the other) and do a large file copy and move the GLXgears windows about forcing repaints.
Axis uses OpenGL for the plot window, so that is the most graphically intense part of it.

I am suspecting that your video card might be a large part of the problem based upon what you say so far and this may tend to confirm it. (other GeForce cards seem to run OK but can't find specific reference to that one)

See
wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TroubleShooting
www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/compo...ew&catid=18&id=19125

for discussion of the problems and remedial actions that may help

I would also suggest running 8.04 as per JTs post, see the 2nd link also for discussion on that issue.

regards