PathPilot Screen freezes after idle for an hour.

Vmax549 wrote: Yes it does have a built in video BUT that would not work either and it only had teh open source driver from linux. I did try to update drivers for that BUT there was not another driver available through linux Mint.

So I went with teh GT710 video card. And there were only 2 drivers available 1 propietary and one open source.

It is not like I have not tried to make it work . It has just become a huge TIME vampire to do so.

I still have not figured out HOW to install a driver from USB or disk. It centainly is not obvious to me. I am limited to teh process inside of Linux Mint and it just checks a depository of drivers most of them are open source.

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The open source (defuault) video drivers usually work best with Linuxcnc. We're talking about a cnc machine, it doesn't nead great video performance or high resolution. It just needs to be good enough for the HMI and not get in the way of the real time tasks.

BUTit does have to be able to do OpenGL well and that is what a lot of teh open source drivers do not do. I get an error on opening PathPilot that says OpenGL NOT supported and PathPil;ot will not start.

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What CPU chip are you using? It may be too new for PathPilots OS

I have gone back to teh onboard port and it will not load PathPilot
"OpenGL not supported" AND there are NO linux Mint drivers avaiable.

Does anyone know how to install a driver from DISK/USB I have a driver that is known to work but have no idea on how to install it.

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What CPU chip are you using?

I ask because the onboard video Intel should "just work",
but if you have a very recent CPU (newer than the OS)
you would expect these types of video problems

What type of file is it ? Deb, .sh, tar ?