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From: davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B.Anderson)
Subject: Re: void (*fptr)() in structs...
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 17:15:30 GMT

In article <29946@adm.brl.mil> karron@karron.med.nyu.edu (Dan Karron (karron@nyu.edu)) writes:
>
>This flys:
>void (*DrawTriangleCode)(int v1,float x1,float y1,
>		                 int v2,float x2,float y2,
>			         int v3,float x3,float y3);
>This bombs :
>struct VoronoiGlobalsTag {
>	void (*DrawTriangleCode)(int v1,float x1,float y1,
>		                 int v2,float x2,float y2,
>			         int v3,float x3,float y3);
> };
>ccom: Error: ./VoronoiDefs.h, line 60: unknown size

-cckr sometimes has trouble with named parameters in function prototypes.
Cannot promise when this extension to Traditional C will be fixed. 
Workaround: remove the paremeter names or comment them out:
			         int /*v3*/,float /*x3*/,float /*y3*/);


ANSI C does not have this problem......
[ David B. Anderson  Silicon Graphics  (415)335-1548  davea@sgi.com ]
From: jprovo@Gnu.ai.mit.edu (The Wandering Pedestal of Angst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Suggestions wanted re: interface w/dumb motor
Summary: device drivers are no fun.
Keywords: toggle, motor, poor academics
Date: 14 Apr 92 22:09:08 GMT
Organization: Russell Street UN*X Consultations

Greets again, c.s.sgi peoples.

I am a consultant working with a cell bio research lab. We are trying to cobble
together a simple device to be driven by our 4d/30.  Both the mechanics and the
software are in design [well, I'm lagging the software a bit to see what sort
of signals are required], and I was wondering what the sgi community would
think of as my best bet as the hardware interface.  Basically, I just need to
toggle, so it would be overboard to use a serial port, IMO.  We do have a
parallel [that doesn't seem like it's headed for printer use anytime in the
near future] port and two serial ports open.  It is a 4d/30 entry, so we 
haven't any audio ports.

One option we've been kicking around is a somewhat smart black box, but we are
attempting to minimize costs so hardwiring it our first choice at the moment.

Opinions? Comments? email preferred [at either addr] as I often get behind
here.

Joe Provo, *IX kind-o-guy.

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From: russ@baklava.mitre.org (Russell Leighton)
Subject: Record/Playback of X events
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 19:51:24 GMT


Is there source for program that records/plays back X events?

I would like to record my actions (e.g., typing, mouse, buttons) into
a file so that I can play it back to run a demo under 4Dwm
on an Indigo.

Any pointers?

Russ
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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: Need help to install FDDI on SGI 4D/340
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:18:26 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.135704.16508@news.uni-stuttgart.de>, wnkretz@ikesg1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Oliver Kretzschmar) writes:
>   I need help to install FDDI on a SGI 4D/340 S. We are running IRIX 3.3.2
>   and FDDIXPRESS 1.0. The FDDI board is well installed on the VME-Bus and
>   the software is also installed as described in the manual. After
>   rebooting the machine we typed "smtstat", but it showed us MAC=OFF.
>   Now my questions :
> 
>         1.) (The kernel is reconfigured, changes was made in /etc/ethers,
>             /etc/config/netif.options ..) What I have done wrong ?

That smtstat finds anything means the board and driver are present.
That the MAC is off means:
    -your /etc/hosts or /etc/config/netif.options are wrong
	Check for this with `ifconfig ipg0`.  If things are correct,
	the interface will be "UP" and "RUNNING".
    -the machine is not connected to a functioning FDDI ring or tree.
	Check for this with `smtstat` or `smtstat -s`, noting that
	the neighboring line states are probably "QLS".

>         2.) We want to use the machine as a single attachment station,
>             how can I configure the machine ?
 
Connect either one of the SGI FDDI ports to a port on your concentrator.
This is a standard operating mode.  For example, that is how the
demo net at InterOP91 was done.  No changes in configuration
settings are needed or appropriate.

>         3.) How can then I use FDDI with ftp etc. ?

In the same way you use ethernet with ftp etc.  
As far as the rest of the system is concerned, FDDI looks like
any other SGI LAN connection.

>         4.) How must I connect the transceiver (A and B cable) ?

Huh?
There is no such thing as an FDDI transciever.
If the question concerns connecting one FDDI station to the next, then
you simply use a "MIC A-B" cable, putting the A end in the A connector
on one station and the B end in the B connector on the other station.

>         5.) Is it possible to use also a ULTRANET board at the same
>             time ?

I don't know why not, but you'll have to ask Ultranet Inc.


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
From: davis@bedlam.asd.sgi.com (Tom Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: How About a Word Processor with IRIX 4.0.X?
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:12:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: fido.jgm74v8
Organization: sgi

Showcase does support centering -- check out the text
ruler gizmo.  What else is missing?
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: CD-ROM drives and WORM discs
Date: 9 Apr 92 06:47:11 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <29958@adm.brl.mil> blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB) writes:


|   I noticed our new CD-ROM drive has a `cartridge' to put the CD's in.
| It looks similar to the ones WORM's are in.  Question: Can one read a WORM
| disc in one of these CD-ROM drives and visa versa?

So far, I haven't seen any that are compatible.  The units that are
sold that handle both CD and WORM usually have custom formats for
the WORM, rather than making the WORM look like a CD.  See also
the posting on write-once CD units tonight.
--
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
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From: mikef@sarah.lerc.nasa.gov (Mike J. Fuller)
Subject: PANIC: CPU x: KERNEL FAULT
Reply-To: mikef@sarah.lerc.nasa.gov
Organization: Computational Materials Laboratory, NASA Lewis Research Center
X-Newsreader: GNU Emacs 18.57.9, GNUS 3.14.1, NNTP 3.10
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 15:15:27 GMT

I have 2 4D/240GTXs which used to chug along for months under heavy load
with 3.3.x.  Now, after upgrading to 4.0.1, I have had both panic within the
past week with identical tracebacks:

[iris]crash:540# dbx -k unix.7 vmcore.7
dbx version 2.10 11/15/91 2:02
Type 'help' for help.

warning: unix.7 is not marked executable!
Reading symbolic information of `unix.7' . . .
SP=ffffe9a4 fp=0 pc=80015fac
Current process id is 130
(dbx) where
>  0 syncreboot(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x800a0d10, 0xc0017dec) ["prf.c":629, 0x80015fa8]
   1 icmn_err(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x80087988, 0x80018bf4) ["prf.c":194, 0x800147a4]
   2 cmn_err(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0xffffeb0c, 0x80) ["prf.c":84, 0x80014488]
   3 panicregs(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x800ee018, 0x8001abec) ["trap.c":162, 0x80018bf0]
   4 k_trap(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x80022394, 0x100) ["trap.c":274, 0x80018f44]
   5 .trap.trap(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0xffffffe0, 0x0) ["trap.c":310, 0x80018fbc]   6 bcopy(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x168, 0x2c000) ["IP5.O/clocore.s":6301, 0x80005550]
   7 <past end of a.out text>(0x1000, 0x1, 0x0, 0x1000, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff)[0xffffbffc]
(dbx)

I thought the major change in 4.0.1 was the window system, and I was willing
to deal with the problems such drastic changes would cause.  However, I was
not willing to deal with repeated kernel panics; this is entirely
unacceptable in my environment, where some jobs need to run for months.  Is
this one of those known problems which has been fixed in 4.0.{2,3,Pi,4,NaN},
or should I open a call on it?

I hate to complain like this, but just about everybody I know who has
upgraded multiprocessor machines to 4.0.1 and uses them heavily has had some
sort of OS trouble.  You would think that, for all the testing of 4.0 that
SGI did internally, these sort of repeatable things would have cropped up.
But I know I am probably asking too much -- the next thing you know I will
want a 1-800 dialup number to search for known bugs and request patches for
such problems.

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From: loki@frodo.physics.mcgill.ca (Loki Jorgenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: disk format
Date: 17 Apr 92 19:51:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: adm.30088


	We have a CDC 700M disk (don't recall the model but that's not
important right now) which was trashed, repaired and then formatted on
a SUN (by a disk repair company).  We get "driver not ready" messages
when its connected to an SGI (Personal, Indigo).

	Is there anyway to re-format it on an SGI machine?  Since we
can't even seem to be able to talk to it, I don't see how.  Any tips 
would be appreciated.  I don't want to have to send it back just to be
reformatted.

-- 
'gards,
                               _     _   
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                         -*  Rightly or wrongly  *-
From: system@silly.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: wierd tape drive problem, help?
Keywords: tape drive
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:21:41 GMT
Organization: Theretical Physics Center, TAMU
Originator: system@silly.tamu.edu

Hi, everyone, all you gurus.

	I have been reading news from this group for a while, but it is 1st
time for me to post anything and asking for help.

	We have a 4d/340 running irix3.3.2. It's tape drive is one of the pain
in the b***. It seems like taking forever to reset the tape drive.
	
	I was trying to backup the user data on several 3M 150mgbyte tapes. It 
happened like this: after first tape is filled up, computer asks for the second
tape and press a return. Since I was not at the place when this happend. So I
just did what the computer asked for. Now the drive just hangs over there and
doing nothing. The light indicator on the drive is on, no spinning, no 
rewinding, nothing at all. This kind of siduation happens a lot, and the only 
way to get the drive back is REBOOTING the machine. I wonder that it is a kown
problem or I did something wrong. Is there anyway to work around? Or the tape 
drive is bad?

	Another similar problem is also about the tape drive. It takes so long 
to get the tape drive to react a command such as mt ret, mt rewind, etc. 
Sometimes you just get the I/O-to tape drive error. Then you have to reboot the
machine to get it back. What is going on here?

	Please post your answer to this news group or email to
system@silly.tamu.edu

	Thanks in advance.

The configuration of the is as following:

4 33 MHZ IP7 Processors
FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 3.0
CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.0
Data cache size: 64 Kbytes
Instruction cache size: 64 Kbytes
Main memory size: 64 Mbytes
Integral Ethernet controller: Version 2
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93
Tape drive: unit 7 on SCSI controller 0: QIC 150
Disk drive: unit 3 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: duncan@McRCIM.McGill.EDU (Duncan Baird)
Subject: gcc-2.1 on IRIX 4.0.1
Originator: duncan@Ra.McRCIM.McGill.EDU
Organization: McGill Research Centre for  Intelligent Machines
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 17:52:48 GMT


I've just installed gcc-2.1 on an IRIS running 4.0.1, and find that 
debugging with dbx doesn't work - dbx manages to find the symbolic
info in my binary, but the values that it shows for variables
are all wrong.  Names of structure elements etc. are fine, but their
contents are trash.

Funny thing is that I can debug the SAME binary using dbx on another 
IRIS around here that's still running 3.3.2, and everything is great.

Can somebody tell me what's going on ?  I hear that something on this 
may have crossed this newsgroup recently - if some kind soul could 
mail it this way I'd appreciate it.


-- 
Duncan L. Baird (duncan@McRCIM.McGill.EDU)
McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: hart@ml.csiro.au (Bill Hart)
Subject: SGI Patches available ? (GRRRRRRRRR!!!!)
Reply-To: hart@ml.csiro.au
Organization: CSIRO Division of Oceanography
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 07:40:02 GMT

Is it possible to pick up patches off the network for Irix ? Is it possible to
get patches from SGI ?

Here in Australia, in my lonely little outpost at the end of the Internet, we
have a whole bunch of Sun's and a couple of SGI servers. Maintenance for the suns
is no problem, I either pick up the patches off the network, or get them sent
down by email (takes about 15 minutes to get a call back from the engineer and
10-15 minutes for the patch to arrive). Software upgrades arrive on CD regular as
clockwork, 2-3 months behind the rest of the world (not so hot but I can live with
it).

It is 18 months since we bought our first SGI server, during which time we have
recieved no patches, and no software upgrades (we are still on Irix 3.3.2) even
after paying a hefty maintenance fee. Calls to the local maintenance centre
produce 2 responses :-
	1) All the staff are in a training seminar but will call you back as
soon as possible (call back time ranges between a couple of hours to usually
never).
	2) Sure, the software to fix your problem will be there in within 2 weeks
(Ho Hum I'm still waiting).

The major problem at the moment is that Irix 3.3.2 has a serious problem with
exabyte tape drives, which seem to cause the machine to hang every 2/3 days.
Evidently 3.3.3 fixes this. Also it would be nice to build some X11 R5 software
which worked reliabily (we spent several days getting the core release to build),
which would be much easier with 4.0X (we were promised this before christmas).

My users are pissed off, I'm pissed off, is this SGI's usual standard of 
operation around the world ? Or have we been singled out because (naughty us)
we thought it was more sensible to pay $3000 each for disk and tape drives rather
than SGI's list price of $10,000 for the same items.

I don't expect a squad of software engineers to fly in to hold my hand through
an installation. All I want is a manual, some software and a support service which
responds when you request information.

Sorry to bitch and whine filling up the bandwidth, but it's got to the stage
where I don't know what else to do.

---
Bill Hart	CSIRO Division of Oceanography		hart@ocean.ml.csiro.au

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From: steve@pitacat.math.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Mathematica on the Indigo
Keywords: Mathematica Indigo
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:17:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Apr14.161753.5819
Organization: Math Dept., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

In article <1992Apr14.153020.1761@u.washington.edu> absinthe@u.washington.edu writes:
>Does anyone know how to suppress the plot, plot3d, and associated-function
>graphical output in Mathematica?
>
>The standard trailing semicolon fails miserably..

Try

Plot[Sin[x],{x,0,3Pi},DisplayFunction :> Identity]

Check out DisplayFunction on page 781 of the Mathematica book, second
edition.  Ie, RTFMB :) 
-- 
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From: tarun@psyclops.psyc.queensu.ca (Tarun Kripalani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Core Files
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:54:49 GMT


I have a little problem. I execute a program and everything seems to be
working fine. No problems whatsoever. However, when someone else is running
the same program, the program seems to hang for a little while, i.e. running
a lot slower, but never crashes completely. Upon checking the SYSLOG file
I get the message that there is a core file access error. I presume that 
this means that the system was unable to do a core dump. But that does not
happen whle I'm running the program, i.e. no attempts at a core dump. My questtion 
is :- Is there a way where I can track down the source of this problem? I am
assuming that this problem occurs when I run this program but I could be
wrong. Could I know what the offending program is that tries to dump core?
(Boy does this ever sound confusing!) How do I go about tracking it down?
Or could it be that I am missing something?
Help!

Tarun Kripalani (of Wounded Knee)
e-mail:   tarun@psyclops.psyc.queensu.ca
Dept. of Psychology, Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: stanj@ferrari.corp.sgi.com (Stan Jensen)
Subject: Re: Scanner Installation on Indigo (was PI)
Keywords: Scanner
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 21:15:17 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.111654.6979@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman) writes:
|> In article <jeck8n8@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
|> >In <511@kluge.fiu.edu> sumargoh@serss0.fiu.edu (H. Sumargo) writes:
|> >| I have a Sharp JX-300 color scanner with scpecification as follows:
|> >|      Scan Size:   85. x 11.6
|> >|      Resolution:  300 D.P.I.
|> >|      I/O:         GPIB IEEE-488 Interface
|> >| 
|> >| What I would like to do with the above scanner is to install it on my
|> >| PI 4D/35.  Does anybody out there have ever done such installation?  As
|> >| far as I am concerned, the PI 4D/35 does not come with GPIB Interface.
|> >| However, can we go around with it, so that the scanner can be installed
|> >| to the PI 4D/35?  Please email your reponse to:
|> >| sumargoh@serss0.fiu.edu.  Thank you very much.
|> >
|> >GPIB is available for all SGI systems with VME.  That doesn't mean
|> >the 300 will work though.  It depends on how close the command set
|> >is to the 450.  Since the size is smaller, at a minimum preview mode
|> >won't work, and you'll have to be careful what part of the bed to
|> >scan, so the commands sent for the 450 are acceptable range-wise to
|> >the 300.
|> >
|> >--
|> 
|> If the only machines in my lab are Indigos, is there any scanner I can
|> connect to them that is supported by IRIX? I suspect this is another
|> way of saying, do SHARP scanners come with a SCSI interface?
|> -- 
|>               David Senseman (senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu)

In addition to Dave Olson's comments, there are two companies listed in the
new issue (#19) of IRIS Universe:

	C/Food Software, Inc.
	Atlanta, GA
 	Phone: (404)396-4177
	FAX: (404)396-8981
	Their "TunaScan" software (I'm not making that up) is "Fully compatible
	with Sharp, Howtek and Hasselblad scanners."

	GBA-SCANIN
	Los Altos, CA
	Phone: (415)948-4711
	FAX: (415)949-5005
	They sell the SCSI version of Sharp scanners and include software.

There are several other companies that support SCSI-connected Sharp scanners,
so please don't take this as an official endorsement.

	Stan

P.S. if you need GPIB for your 4D/35, the SGI marketing code is P5-488-1.2.
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From: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu (Dave Schweisguth)
Subject: Why aren't GL programs seeing my resources?
Organization: Department of Chemistry, Yale University
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 17:14:56 GMT

Hi, all. I admit it -- I'm an X weenie. Can someone please help me?

My .Xresources file on neutron contains (among other things)

Clock*geometry:128x128+168-20
Console*geometry:80x64+595-20
Mailbox*geometry:+20-20

These both do the right thing when I log directly into neutron.

I want to have the exact same environment on ursula, so I have a .xsession
on ursula that contains only

#!/bin/csh -f
rsh neutron .xsession >& /dev/null

When I log into ursula, all my windows come up and everything is happy ...
_except_ that 'clock' and 'mailbox' don't see their geometry resources. The
'console' (xwsh) and 'toolchest' windows do. 'xwininfo' sez that the 'clock'
window is called 'clock'. So what gives?

Email is fine. Thanks in advance,

--
| Dave Schweisguth   Yale MB&B & Chemistry   Email: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu |
| Lab phone: 203-432-5208      Fax: 203-432-6144     Home phone: 203-436-2831 |

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Cryptic messages on console
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 03:45:20 GMT

In <shrq5INNjfd@network.ucsd.edu> dave@ivem.uucp (Dave) writes:

| Ok smart guys, what does this mean?
| 
| dks0d2s1: Swap out failed blkno 0x20864 (page still in memory)
| dks0d2s1: Swap out failed blkno 0x20B84 (page still in memory)
| dks0d2s1: Swap out failed blkno 0x20EA4 (page still in memory)
| ...

I'll bet you also have kernel error messages in /usr/adm/SYSLOG
from the disk driver.  If not, you have probably done a swap -a
with an invalid argument (larger than the size of the partition
you were adding).

We have an open bug to add checking so that swap -a with a
too large value will be rejected.  For now, use the correct
value.
--
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
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