Hi Craig On Sunday 02 April 2006 19:38, Craigg Gadd wrote:

I'm very new to Linux but managed to successfully install BDI 4.38 a few days ago.  I seem to be having trouble launching EMC however.  The problem is that the system hangs when TK starts to load.  I'm saying this based on what I'm reading on the script window as EMC is loading.

Once the system is hung, I'm unable to recover and must reboot.  I'll mention that I don't seem to be having any other problems with the installed applications so I believe the problem relates to EMC and Tk.

This sounds very much like PERIOD being set too low for your computer. This parameter is defined in /usr/local/emc/emc.ini, or generic.ini, depending on which run script you use.. The value is set at a fairly conservative 0.000025 and should work with most 400MHz and faster computers. Even a P266 will run, but performance would be quite sluggish... There are one or two motherboards out there that just can not provide adequate performance due to inherant design problems - Generally, anything that uses shared main memory for onboard video, certain i845/855 chipsets, and Geode processors all have "issues". You could try increasing PERIOD to 0.00005 and see if avoids the freezing. Some additional information about your computer (make/model of motherboard, graphics card, etc) would help.. Regards, Paul.