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From: stevef@csl.sony.co.jp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: VGX Texture Spans
Date: 22 Jul 92 08:21:02 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan



After upgrading to Irix4.0 on a Iris4D/320vgx I have been reading the
Graphics LIbrary Programming Tools and Techniques to optimize some
graphics performance.

On pg 2-46 they talk about not overflowing the hardware texture 
memory and give a table of memory size for 5-span and 10-span systems.

I have tried hinv -v but there is no mention of # of texture spans...
does anyone know how I can find out how many "texture spans" I have???


Thanks in Advance,


Steve
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From: yaron@ARISTO.TAU.AC.IL (Yaron Zabary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: CPU PANIC
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:26:10 GMT
Organization: Computation Center, Tel-Aviv University


Hello all,

 Our 4D/240s crashed twice this week, complaining about CPU PANIC. I could not find
these messages in the Sys Admin manual. Can someone shed some light ?

Jul 30 12:58:35 ccsg PANIC: CPU 1: pagefree: page use 0 (0x8023E178)

Jul 25 14:33:42 ccsg PANIC: CPU 0: ip ftype 0x0

our hinv is:

Processor 0: 25 MHZ IP7
FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 2.0
CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.0
Processor 1: 25 MHZ IP7
FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 2.0
CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.0
Processor 2: 40 MHZ IP7
FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 4.0
CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.0
Processor 3: 40 MHZ IP7
FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 4.0
CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.0
Data cache size: 64 Kbytes
Instruction cache size: 64 Kbytes
Main memory size: 64 Mbytes
ENP-10 Ethernet controller 0, firmware version 4 (SGI)
Integral Ethernet controller: Version 2
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93
Tape drive: unit 7 on SCSI controller 0: QIC 150
Tape drive: unit 6 on SCSI controller 0: 8mm cartridge
Tape drive: unit 5 on SCSI controller 0: 8mm cartridge
Disk drive: unit 4 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 3 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0

 Thanks.
-- 

-- Yaron.
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-- Yaron.
From: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  SCSI Disk Problem? (1.6 MB Seagate)
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:10:07 GMT


  We have a Seagate WREN 8 ST41650N in an external enclosure on an Indigo
Entry machine.  The Seagate is the system disk and we are runnging IRIX 4.0.1.
We haven't had any problems with our drive, we DID have problems with a
Micropolis drive, but not the Seagate.
  The Micropolis gave us errors similar to what you are getting.  We were
never given a clear explanation as to why the Micropolis didn't work.

  Brent L. Bates				Phone:(804) 864-2854
  NASA-Langley Research Center			  FAX:(804) 864-8469
  M.S. 361
  Hampton, Virginia  23665-5225
  E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero8.larc.nasa.gov
From: roberts@nimrod.wpd.sgi.com (roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: sendmail and timed problems.
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:16:11 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

Ian Hoyle writes:

> If you want more bells and whistles I'd go for Neil Rickert/Paul Pomes (from 
> NIU) version of sendmail that includes the IDA extensions. Latest version is
> 5.65c/IDA-1.4.4.1. In fact you don't need to touch the generated sendmail.cf
> as all the configuring is done in tables. It allows lots of nice things like
> rewriting my outgoing address from...

IRIX sendmail has the IDA extensions.  IRIX sendmail *should* work with
any existing IDA configuration file.  There is an autoconfiguring version
of IRIX sendmail that often works "out-of-the-box".  See the comments in the
/usr/lib/sendmail.cf.auto file for installation instructions.  Also see the
configmail(1M) man page.

	- Robert Stephens
	  Silicon Graphics Inc.
From: kipp@warp.asd.sgi.com (Kipp Hickman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Status of OpenGL?
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:39:51 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Advanced Systems Division

I think the main distinction here about OpenGL which makes it different than
Explorer or DPS is that OpenGL represents the future of SGI's graphics
library.  If one is currently purchasing the developers option then
one will almost certainly be given OpenGL on the future developers
option.

Eventually on future machines there will be no IrisGL.  As a consequence,
OpenGL will be available in the same way that IrisGL is available
now.  As Mr. Bartelt has mentioned, the "pinstripers" may come along and
change this.  If they do, then it will be something of the sort where the
bundling of the developers option changes.

In any case, this is all just speculation.

					kipp hickman
					silicon graphics inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: thsspxh@iitmax.iit.edu (Patrick HURT)
Subject: Re: sendmail and timed problems. [2nd bug FIXED]
Keywords: sendmail-lost mail-timed-machine not responding
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 22:55:34 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.223713.6260@iitmax.iit.edu> I write:
>
>First real problem:
>------------------
>
>Just got upgraded to 4.0.1 on an Iris 4D/20. Incoming mail is 
>not delivered, and not even bounced! THis happens for mail
>coming from anywhere outside the machine. Local mail (internal 
>to the machine) works fine. The file sendmail.cf is set up
>with sendmail.cf.auto. I can send mail out, it works fine, 
>but the mail coming in never shows up anywhere! I looked into
>the SYSLOG fileof the Iris, and here is what I found, every time I try to
>send mail to the Iris:
>
>ir260a sendmail[5165]: AA05165: from=<thsspxh@iitmax.iit.edu>, size=291, class=0, received from iitmax.^AD (192.41.245.10)
>ir260a sendmail[5166]: Attempting to deliver to non-existent host ir260a.iit.edu for ir260a.iit.edu
>ir260a sendmail[5166]: AA05165: to=<patrick@ir260a.iit.edu>, delay=00:00:01, stat=Host unknown
>ir260a sendmail[5166]: AA05166: from=MAILER-DAEMON, size=0, class=0, received from iitmax.^AD (192.41.245.10)
>ir260a sendmail[5166]: Attempting to deliver to non-existent host iitmax for iitmax
>ir260a sendmail[5166]: AA05166: to=<thsspxh@iitmax.iit.edu>, delay=00:00:01, stat=Host unknown
>
>
>ir260a is the Iris, iitmax is another machine from which I try to send the 
>mail. Pretty weird message, "non-existent host ir260a.iit.edu" since it's
>the Iris itself... And it's strange that the MAILER-DAEMON doesn't even
>bounce the mail. So what's the deal, there? 
>


A reply by mail gave me the fix (and problem) for this:

4.0.1 shipped with a defective sendmail.cf. If you change it, SGI won't
support it. Here's the bug:

Line 477 in the supplied /usr/lib/sendmail.cf file is:

R$*<$*..$Y>$*           $1<$2.$Y>$3                     tidy any double dot

That line should be:

R$*<$*..$Y>$*           $1<$2.$Y>$4                     tidy any double dot

Now it works fine. Seems that sgi won't support a sendmail.cf which is
not theirs, even though THEIRS doesn't work. Quite strange, huh?

Anyway... Thanks to Doctor Math who gave me the answer.

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From: ciemo@bananapc.csd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  Need help getting GL over net to Macx
Date: 23 Jul 92 00:19:16 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Customer Support Division

In article <1992Jul22.230358.3686@microunity.com>, jsw@microunity.com (Jeff Weinstein) writes:
|> In article <31491@adm.brl.mil>, marks@ra.rl.af.mil (David Marks) writes:
|> 
|> [ David's expression of frustration about sgi ignoring a request for
|>   GL on top of X deleted ]
|> 
|>   Well if there is really a market for GL on X, then someone will license
|> OpenGL, port it to run on top of X, and make a million bucks.
|> 
|> 	--Jeff
|> 
|> PS - I'm a former SGI employee, and I think that such a thing SHOULD be done,
|> but that the result won't be very useful.  It certainly wouldn't be useful
|> for anything I want to do with GL.  
|> 

I think what would be really useful in this discussion is explanation
from customers as to how they expect to use GL rendering to X
terminals.  Do you expect to be able run dog on an X terminal?  Do you
expect current GL applications to just work transparently to the X
terminal?  Given that performance of such an arrangement of GL
rendering to X may not provide interactivity, are you willing to write
applications with this limitation in mind?  Do you just expect to use
the GL as a rendering description for static scenes?  Is anyone out
there using VOGL?  How are you using it?  What performance and
interactivity issues have you encountered in this arrangement?  What
levels of performance are you acheiving with VOGL?  How have you had
to change applications to support this GL on X model versus using the
applications on machines which support the GL?  How many people out there
would buy the product if all you could do is render a static image?

To me, it would be most fruitful for these questions and others like them
to be answered.  I think understanding customer expectations of such a
GL to X product will best help us decide whether or not it is worth
providing such a product.  If such a product cannot meet the expectations
of the customers, then SGI is in a no-win situation.  We're damned if we
don't produce the product and were damned if we do.  However, if customer
expectations for the product are lower than we estimate and demand sufficient,
producing such a product would be in everybody's best interests.

Just thought I'd stir things up out of personal curiousity.


-- 

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  /    /  \/  /  /\  /    /	quite like any other man.
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From: jhaveri@tbd2.brl.mil (Ashutosh Jhaveri )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Control Dials on Iris 3030
Keywords: Control Dials Iris 3030
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:04:57 GMT

Hello.

We have an Iris 3030, A Personal Iris (4D/35). Does
anyone know whether it is possible to take the control dials and
keypad from the Iris 3030 and put them on the Personal Iris (4D/35)?

Thanks

Ashutosh Jhaveri

Never underestimate the power of a SEAP!
From: et11hkh@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de (Rainer Zewe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Feedback problem on Indigo
Date: 30 Jul 92 08:05:24 GMT

By using Feedback on the Indigo, data appears in a group of six floating
point values. The third value is the z value.

The answer:
Is it possible to get the z-coordinate in screen coordinates.
Or is there another possibility to get z-information of a specific 
pixel(in screen coordinates).

Thanks for answer!
From: ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Help!  5 gig 8mm tape problems!
Date: 31 Jul 1992 09:12:09 -0500
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: bovina.cs.utexas.edu

Help!  We just got a 5 gig 8mm tape drive for our 4D/35s (yes, from SGI),
and I can't get it to work.  I try to dump filesystems (using the regular 8mm
switches; length 6000 density 54000 I think), but it dies with a write error
1 foot into the dump.  I don't have a manual because our wonderful prime
contractor decided to nab it.

I can be reached at:
ted@austin.lockheed.com
ted@cs.utexas.edu

Thanks,


-- 
Ted Woodward (ted@cs.utexas.edu)

"Mad scientists HATE shopping for shoes!" -- Peaches
From: grl@brb.dmt.csiro.au (Greg Lehmann)
Subject: indigo DAT drive options
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 09:05:37 GMT

Is there a HW compression version of the standard 1.3Gb drive and/or a long
tape version (180minutes?)
-- 
Greg Lehmann,
CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology,   Telephone: +61 7 365 3877
c/- Dept. of Mining & Metallurgical Eng.,     Facsimile: +61 7 365 3711
The University of Queensland, QLD 4072.       Internet:  grl@brb.dmt.csiro.au
From: johns@trident.datasys.swri.edu (Stephen Johns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Mouse/Flight program
Keywords: mouse flight program
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:49:36 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

Many of the demo programs distributed by SGI use a type of
mouse "flight/simulator" interaction to move about the sceen.
Is this code available to the public?  Or is it even possibly
a GL call?

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Stephen Johns, Research Analyst
Southwest Research Institute, SA, TX 78228 (512) 522-5751
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: cboesel@iat.holonet.net (Charles Boesel)
Subject: Reading and writing to DAT without getting TAR'ed
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 23:17:37 GMT

Is there a way to read and write files to a DAT drive
without getting TAR involved? Lemme know if 'tis true you can.

charles boesel
cboesel@holonet.net
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: putting it on the internet
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:00:32 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In article <1992Jul27.142215.33231@urz.unibas.ch>, hofer@urz.unibas.ch (Remo Hofer) writes:
> > the defaults). So, what's about configmail and where can I find it?
> > BTW We are running IRIX 4.0.1 on a PI 4D/35.
> 
> I've found /usr/etc/configmail, but still no manpage.
>            ^^^^


Judging from the "IDB", it should be in eoe1 in IRIX 4.0.5
in usr/catman/a_man/cat1/configmail.z.


Vernon Schryver,   vjs@sgi.com
From: pyle@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Don Pyle 283-4209)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Netld dies on reboot
Keywords: netld
Date: 29 Jul 1992 18:23:13 GMT
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company


-- 
Don Pyle	McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company
1300 Bay Area Blvd. Houston, Texas 77058
(713) 283-4209  FAX: (713) 283-4020
Internet address: pyle@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov

Sgi license guru

I have 11 various SGI machines in a single subnet of a network
and I am running Codevision under the provisional license?

I am running only one machine as the global license agent, everything seems to
work fine until i reboot the license agent and then I have to manually 
restart the /usr/etc/netlsd deamon using the /usr/etc/netlsd -o & option.

My question is how do I make this happen as part of normal startup or 
reboot?

I am running 4.0.1 OS currently.

I sure hope some of you folks at SGI can help me out here.

Thanks
Don Pyle        McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company
1300 Bay Area Blvd. Houston, Texas 77058
(713) 283-4209  FAX: (713) 283-4020
Internet address: pyle@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov
From: flash@austin.lockheed.com (James W. Melton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: make and SGI sales (unrelated)
Summary: problems with make and sales gripes
Keywords: make sccs
Date: 30 Jul 92 02:57:49 GMT
Organization: "Lockheed Austin Division, 6800 Burleson Rd, Austin, TX 78744

I have two unrelated issues. First the important one. Ever since
making the switch from Sun to SGI, I have never looked back. Nor do
I want to. Except for one thing. Make on the Sun seems to be vastly
superior to make on SGI.

The documentation of make in the SGI manuals is spartan at best.
Also, some of the best features of Sun make are not available on
the SGI, like shell assignements of macros; e.g.,

    CURRENT_DIR = `pwd`

However, some things which _ought_ to work on the SGI are not
working for me. For example, consider the following makefile
fragment (pardon me if there are minor syntax errors; I am making
this up as I go):

    OBJECTS = func1.o func2.o func3.o
    PROGRAM = foo

    all: $(PROGRAM)

    $(PROGRAM): $(OBJECTS)
	    $(CC) -o $@ $(OBJECTS)

I have an SCCS directory which contains SCCS files for func1.c,
func2.c, and func3.c. Running make with this makefile gives the
error:

    Don't know how to make func1.o

According the man page (and I verified the .c~.o rule) make should
extract func1.c from SCCS and compile it to produce func1.o (same
for the other files). Why doesn't this work? I called the TAC, and
the dispatcher said she had just taken another call on a similar
problem. Does anyone have any hints or answers? Is this an FAQ?

---------------------------------------

Second topic. Recently, I tried to call my local sales rep. It
turns out that he didn't meet his sales quota and SGI let him go.
This is a shame, because he was one of the best salesmen I have
ever known. He was personally responsible for convincing me that
SGI is a reputable company with solid support behind the product.
He is a lot less greasy than your typical sales lizard.

The question is: is this normal procedure for SGI? Miss a quota and
hit the road? Does this imply anything about SGI's current or
future financial picture? I really need a local sales rep. We are
in the midst of a pitched evangelism campaign and I can't do SGI's
sales job for them. Calling some guy in California won't cut it.
What is SGI's policy for local sales reps?

Just curious.

-----
-- 
Jim Melton, novice guru
email:      flash@austin.lockheed.com | "So far as we know, our
voice mail: (512) 386-4486            |  computer has never had
fax:        (512) 386-4223            |  an undetected error"
Newsgroups: lerc.workstations,comp.sys.sgi
From: root@godzilla.lerc.nasa.gov (Super-User)
Subject: jot problem
Summary: invalid monitortype when invoking jot
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center [Cleveland, Ohio]
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:33:29 GMT

We just bought an SGI Indigo and are having a problem with jot.
When invoking jot, we get the following error:

	ERROR #98  invalid monitortype returned by kernel: ERR_INVALIDMODE

But jot still comes up and works fine.  Anyone have any ideas on how
to get rid of this error?  Thanks in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: alanf@cs.monash.edu.au (Alan Grant Finlay)
Subject: 24 bit color under X11 on Personal IRIS
Summary: does X server support 24bit colour?
Keywords: X11, DirectColor
Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 07:03:57 GMT


Since we have 24bit colour displays on some of our IRIS's I thought it would
be easy to access the display at this resolution using Xlib TrueColor or
DirectColor.  Unfortunatly it looks as if the version of Xlib or the X server
we have (came with IRIX 4.0.x) does not support 24bit colour.

The Xlib call XDisplayPlanes returns 8 and it looks like that's all it
supports.

Does anyone know if I am doing something wrong.  Is the problem with Xlib
or with the server? (or how can I find out?).

        Alan Finlay, email:alanf@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au
From: dasilva@mies.ced.berkeley.edu (Ruieta Da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Turbo Graphic board swap?
Date: 28 Jul 1992 01:55:23 GMT
Organization: University of California
NNTP-Posting-Host: mies.ced.berkeley.edu

Does anyone know how to take a turbo graphics option board from
one 25TG and put it in another 25? I hear that there are some
resistors to cut, etc. Also how would you pull it out?

Thanks,

Deanan
From: andersen@marvin.ama.ttu.edu (Kim Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Serial ports on IRIS
Date: 28 Jul 92 20:18:15 GMT

WHAT is the difference between the serial port devices -- ttym, ttyd, ttyf?
This is (of course) not documented anywhere.  I have a printer currently
set up to do x-on/x-off, which works fairly well with ttyd.  I would LIKE
to make it do ready/busy (DTR, DSR, whatever).  

Do I still use ttyd and try to set stty to do this, or is ttyf intended
to do this instead?  And what about ttym (which seems to be intended for 
modems, but who knows)?

Any clues will be appreciated.

Kim Andersen
andersen@marvin.ama.ttu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: whither rpc.rstatd in 4.0.1?
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 01:05:56 GMT

In <1992Jul29.231053.24986@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> cliff@cs.arizona.edu (Cliff Hathaway) writes:
| There's a man page for rstatd which came with 4.0.1 (according to the creation
| date on the file), but /usr/etc/rpc.rstatd isn't there.  One of our users claims
| to have used rstatd in the past (before we upgraded to 4.0.1) on our 4D/340VGX.
| 
| If rpc.rstatd wasn't distributed with 4.0.1, is there something else which
| performs the same functions?

Install eoe2.sw.tcp (I have trouble believing that you don't already
have it, as none of the X or networking stuff works without it).

Perhaps somebody decided  you didn't need it, and removed it?
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 3.7 Gigabytes disk drives
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:05:37 GMT


     I thought I remembered someone from SGI saying, one could use drives
larger than 2Gb, but there was a 2Gb size limit on a single partition.
Is this no longer true?

  Brent L. Bates				Phone:(804) 864-2854
  NASA-Langley Research Center			  FAX:(804) 864-8469
  M.S. 361
  Hampton, Virginia  23665-5225
  E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero8.larc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi