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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Software installation problem
Date: 7 Nov 92 03:13:44 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Nov6.141950.26762@relay.nswc.navy.mil> dplakos@nswc-wo.nswc.navy.mil (Daniel Plakosh) writes:
|   While attemping to install system software on a IP4 machine
| the following errors are displayed.
| 
| 171760+46048+......etc
| sash not found:
| known files are
| sash.IP*
| sash.IP4
| mr
| fx.IP*
| fx.IP4
| unable to read volume header of "tpsc(0,7)"
| * stands for all other IP types

Sounds like a typo to me (on your part).  It should never
be looking for sash at this point.

You want something like
>> boot -f tpsc(0,7)sash.IP4 --m

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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: asgeir@viking.asd.sgi.com (Asgeir Eiriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: gcc on 4D/340VGX IRIX4.0.4
Date: 4 Nov 92 21:51:00 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: viking.asd.sgi.com

In <1992Nov4.191433.6636@oracle.pnl.gov> d3g931@snacker.pnl.gov (Geoff S. Slinker) writes:


>Does anyone have gcc and g++ installed on a 4D/340VGX?
>I have been trying to install it and I am having a lot of trouble.
>It tries to find stsupport.h that does not exist on this machine.
>Does anyone have binary copy of libg++ ?

I assume you're trying to build gcc 2.2.2 from  prep.ai.mit.edu, and libg++.a
from the same place revison 2.2

The header file is part of the development environment (dev.complrs_* ),
so you'll need to install that on the machine. Sorry I'm not familiar
with the details because the procedure for installing is different inside
SGI.
From: mhart@IRIS.bio.uts.EDU.AU (Michael Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: bad GL code locks up 4D-25
Date: 11 Nov 1992 08:48:15 GMT
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
NNTP-Posting-Host: iris.bio.uts.edu.au

Yes,
	When we were running the old Irix 3.3 I had some buggy code
which actually rebooted the system.  I traced it to a rectwrite()
call which was actually trying to transfer more pixels than allocated
in the picture array.

	Every time I ran the code to try to find the bug I had to wait
for the system to start up again.

	I don't know if this happens with the newer operating systems.

+-------------------------------+------------------------------------+
| Michael Hart                  | "If you want a straight line take  |
| Biomedical Science Dept       |  only two points."                 |
| University Of Technology      | "If reproducibility is a problem   |
| mhart@bio.uts.edu.au          |  do the experiment only once."     |
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From: cullip@pooh.cs.unc.edu (Timothy Cullip)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Texture Lookup Table (tlutdef) on RealityEngine
Date: 13 Nov 92 15:48:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: borg.17478
Distribution: usa

I've written a type of volume renderer for the RealityEngine that
uses 3D texture. It is currently using a one component 3D texture 
(intensity component only). Since it is doing an integration through 
space (I'm modeling an xray or radiographic view) I've found that it 
renders best when using an external texture format of 16 bits 
(TX_EXTERNAL_FORMAT : TX_PACK_16) and an internal format of 12 bits 
(TX_INTERNAL_FORMAT : TX_I_12A_4) for intensity.

Using 8 bit components causes too much loss of precision for my integration
technique (each component in the integration is typically less than 5
if I want the integral to be clamped to 256). A lot of the image detail is
lost in the roundoff at 8 bits.

It would be nice if I could use a dynamically changing texture lookup
function that remapped my intensities. I would like to use the tlutdef()
and tlutbind() calls to do this. Unfortunately, to the best of my
knowledge, it looks likes the texture lookup table routines take my
internal 12 bit texture, truncates to 8 bits, uses the 8 bits as an
index and returns an 8 bit value for the new intensity. This loss of
information is unacceptable for my volume renderer (which is in essense
integrating intensity through depth).

I noticed in the man page to tlutdef() that it's entries are 8 bits/component.
It also states that you pass it the number of entries that you want, though
I'm not sure how this parameter affects the results. Anytime I try to
make a table bigger than 256 entries, it seems to ignore anything but
the lower 256 entries.

Is there anyway to create a 4096 entry table of 12 (or 16 bit) entries
in a texture lookup table and have my 12 bit/intensity internal format
texture used as an index into this 4096 entry table and have it return
12 bit values? 
If not, is this a hardware limitation or a software (microcode) limitation? 

Also, on a side note, it is my guess that the tlut lookup is done after the 
trilinear interpolation (TX_MAGFILTER: TX_TRILINEAR). Is this true? Is there
anyway to get the lookup done before the trilerp? That is I'd prefer
to have the 8 values transformed by the lookup table and then trilerped
to a single value, rather than trilerp the 8 values and then use this
single result as the index into a single lookup. This makes a difference
because the lookup table is going to model a nonlinear process.

PS: Is the reason you don't support a one component internal format
of 16 bits because you only have 12 bits per red/green/blue/alpha in the
framebuffer and so the anything beyond a 12 bit texture component would
be lost anyways?

-- 

   Tim Cullip
   cullip@cs.unc.edu
From: edik@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Ed Sternin)
Subject: Telnet bug? or feature?
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:19:50 GMT

I thought I was being clever: at login, in one of the
scripts (.cshrc, I guess) I check if DISPLAY is defined,
I check if remotehost is defined, and set things appropriately.
The problem is that if all that fails, I say aha, we must be local,
so 
  setenv  DISPLAY :0
or something like that.  Having done that, I rlogin to another 
machine, and rlogin upon seeing :0 prepends a proper fully qualified
name, so that on the new machine I have DISPLAY=old.machine.full.name:0,
and all windows work fine.  Now I telnet to the same machine; telnet
sees :0 and prepends a local name, too -- BUT ONLY THE NICKNAME, not
the fully qualified domain name!!  So on the new machine I end up with
DISPLAY=old:0  to use the same example.  This only has meaning if I moved
within a subdomain, but fails miserably when I hop across subdomains.

If in telnet> I listenv (or is it printenv?) I can see the error even before
OPENing a connection, as what telnet will send out as the local DISPLAY
name.  

Any fix?   Any easy shell way of obtaining a fully qualified domain name
of my local machine -- so that I could always set DISPLAY to
  old.machine.full.name:0     and not just
  :0
???

Thanks for your help.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: stanj@ferrari.corp.sgi.com (Stan Jensen)
Subject: Re: Direct login failure
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:17:27 GMT

In article <96800@netnews.upenn.edu>, weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
|> I have a user who cannot log in directly to one of our Iris 4Ds
|> running 4.0.1.  He tries, the screen blanks for a moment, and then
|> he's back at the login menu.  (Even with no password, he fails.)
|> All other logins, on that machine or by that user, succeed.  He
|> has a pretty boring .login and .cshrc.  Any clues?

See if the /etc/config/system.glGammaVal file is missing or empty. If so,
as root try "echo 1.7 > /etc/config/system.glGammaVal". Hope this helps!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: sullivan@gorgo.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dan sullivan)
Subject: Mixed model work procs question
Keywords: mixed model, work procs
Reply-To: sullivan@gorgo.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dan sullivan)
Organization: NASA/GSFC Hydrospheric Sciences Branch
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:59:02 GMT



I am porting a program from GL to GL/Motif and I have a question about
setting and tracking the pointer. 
The GL program plots data on the world and allows the user to roam the world.
(perspective and polarview)
When the user pushes the "ROAM" widget on the control panel, the program
moves the cursor to the center of the GL window. 
     -The left/right mouse button increases/decreases distance from
Earth surface
     -Horizontal/vertical distance from the center of the window
         controls azimuth/inclination 
     -The cursor is constrained to an area of 100 pixels square within
     the window.
     - Program exits "ROAM" mode when the escape key is pressed.

What is the best way to implement this using mixed model programming?
I could use work procs, but I need to know the position of the cursor.
Should I use Xquerypointer to track cursor movement?
Is there a way to constrain the cursor, as with setvaluator?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
            Thanks
                   Dan
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                               #  Code 920.2
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                               #  Greenbelt, MD 20771
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From: senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Increased Prices for Memory
Date: 7 Nov 92 05:11:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: ringer.1992Nov7.051153.26035
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <1992Nov6.140610.26884@athena.mit.edu> ertas@athena.mit.edu (Mehmet D Ertas) writes:
>Yes, for the same reason, Kingston 3rd 
>party memory expansion kits for R4k (64 MB)
>have also increased by $350. By the way, 
>I was also told that the design of
>these have changed to include drivers in 
>order to eliminate any possible bus loading
>problems, due to their unconventional(!) design. 
>The new design is available now.
>

Yikes! I just placed an order with Impediment on Thursday and we are suppose
to receive the 32 MB upgrade package (for the R4K Indigo) on Monday. This is
the first I have heard of including "drivers" with the RAM so as not to load 
the bus. I have no idea which type of memory Impediment is sending (all I
know is that it's going to cost me more that it would have last week :(

Am I correct in assuming that I should be able to easily tell whether these
chips are the old or new design? (i.e. are the drivers are easy to spot?). 
Should I refuse delivery if there are the "old" design? 

Can anyone (Dave?) elaborate on what's going on?  Thanks.
-- 
David M. Senseman, Ph.D.     | A man who has never gone to school may steal 
(senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu) | from a freight car; but if he has a university
Division of Life Sciences    | education, he may steal the whole railroad.
UT San Antonio               |             Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: botner@convex.com (Mark Botner)
Subject: maxtor scsi disk
Summary: PI & maxtor lxt 535 sy
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:51:43 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

I would like to know if it is possible to add a maxtor lxt 535 sy scsi disk
to my personal iris.  The external scsi connecter is not being used and I
need more disk space.  Would this work?  And if so, do I just need to use
the 'fx' & 'mkfs' utilities to format the disk?

Thanks in advance,

Mark
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botner@convex.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: boylan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Terran Boylan)
Subject: Re: Explorer and Inventor file formats?
Organization: Engineering Animation, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:54:21 GMT

Has anybody got a program to convert from Inventor file format
to a polygonal representation?  In particular I'm thinking about
how nice it would be to be able to create polygonal geometries
of 3-D fonts and then port them to non-Inventor application
programs.

I know, I know, I'm being a pest. :^)

-- 
Terran J. Boylan, Sr. Artist/Programmer | "It's better to have loved
Engineering Animation, Inc.,  Ames, IA  | and lost than just to have
(515) 296-9908 / (515) 296-7934 (> 5PM) | lost." -- Dorky Dog
From: arthur@sgi.com (Arthur Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: shared memory arena locks
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:58:21 GMT
Reply-To: arthur@chiba.esd.sgi.com (Arthur Evans)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <Bx81Gx.EBF.2@cs.cmu.edu> drew+@CS.CMU.EDU (Paul Olbrich) writes:
>At the end of the ussetlock man page it says:
>
>>     [EBADF]        The underlying file descriptor for the lock was closed or
>>                    re-used by the application.
>
>Does this imply that a new file descriptor is allocated for every lock
>I create with usnewlock?

I'm fairly sure that the answer is no.  Here's what I think is
going on, although I haven't looked at the code in question and 
I'm going mainly from manual pages at the moment:

When you initialize a shared arena (using usinit(3P)), 
the system opens the user-level semaphore device.  The file descriptor
for this device is then associated with the opaque handle returned by
usinit().  This is hinted at in the man pages for usinit(), usema(7M),
and ussetlock(3P), but isn't stated anywhere that I could find.

I believe that the ussetlock() man page is referring to this file
descriptor.

I'm afraid I don't have an answer for your other question.

-arthur

>Also, in the IRIX programming guide, it says that you can't use
>message passing and floating point in the same program without
>compiling with the -f switch.  
>
>What's the -f switch do?  The man pages for cc don't mention it at all.
>
>Drew Olbrich
>drew@cs.cmu.edu


--
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  That made a wretch of me."
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: ttknock@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Robert Armstrong)
Subject: xlibs for 3.3.2
Followup-To: nonthing
Summary: need xlibs for pi
Keywords: pi sgi 3.3.2 x
Organization: none
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 20:38:48 GMT


	I'm trying to compile Xcomm on my 4D/20 running 3.3.2. I've
downloaded a set of X includes to use but now I need the X libs to
link with. Are there any I can get thru FTP for SGIs? Or, possibly
have I just not installed them from the dev or eoe tapes? Thanks.


ttknock@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu



Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Irix 5.0
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 05:57:12 GMT

In <Bx9qEH.8q@fiu.edu> jorgec@serss0 (Jorge Castellano) writes:
| I remember somebody mentioning that Irix 5.0 would be released before the end
| of 1992. Anybody know anything about this? Will it be based on SVR4? If I purchased an Indigo now, would I be able to upgrade to 5.0 for free??

I don't think a date has been announced yet.  Yes, 5.0 is (one of)
the working names for the SVR4 based OS release (which isn't quite
an accurate description; but the API is (mostly) SVR4 compliant,
with assorted other things, like more POSIX stufff, etc. etc.)

Your sales rep should be able to tell you whatever we have publicly
stated/committed to support, and perhaps when.

--
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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: ashish@eng.umd.edu (Ashish Nedungadi)
Subject: Virtual Window Manager
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 17:17:23 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity von Uniland, College Park
Originator: ashish@valkyrie.eng.umd.edu


Hello everybody,
	I would like to know if there is a SUN equivalent of Virtual Window Manager.
I am running tvtwm on a SUN which effectively gives me four screens to work in.
In the lower right corner is a box which contains the four quadrants of workspace.
I am able to switch from quadrant to quadrant using either the mouse or keys.

	Is there something like this for the SGI. I am running IRIX 4.05.F.  Any
help will be appreciated.  Please e-mail me directly.

Thank you.

Ashish

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Ashish Nedungadi  |  University of Maryland         |  ashish@eng.umd.edu
                  |  College Park, MD 20742         |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: grindley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Robin Grindley)
Subject: The dbx two-step
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:49:36 GMT

I saw a post recently about dbx jumping backwards and forwards on next's
and step's. The reply claimed that the 3.10 compiler suite would fix it,
but i just installed 4.0.5 and 3.10 this week, and freshly compiled code
still has this annoying behaviour. This has been around for a long time.
Is it really understood why it is doing this?

robin
-- 
robin

 		iNSANITY - It's only a state of mind
From: hunter@werple.apana.org.au (James Gardiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Does 4.0.5(F) exist?
Date: 6 Nov 1992 11:07:27 +1100
Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.apana.org.au

portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes:


>> >Does anyone know if there is really a 4.0.5F? If there is a fix
>> >version to 4.0.5 if there usually a rev number, like 4.0.5F01 or
>> >some such? 
>>    Yes, but it's only for the R4k Indigo's.

>It is for *all* Indigo systems, as well as all RealityEngine-based
>systems.

Yes but I was told that it is not for general distribution to
R3k and IP customers YET.  Only if you buy a R4k or 
reality engine can you get the Media.

>--
>Michael Portuesi   Silicon Graphics, Inc.   portuesi@sgi.com

James
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: dunlap@bigboote.csd.sgi.com (D. Christopher Dunlap)
Subject: Re: TAC - Who to contact.
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:04:06 GMT

In <BxEuC5.G3q@rahul.net> jonathan@rahul.net (Jonathan Heiliger) writes:

>In article <61822@mimsy.umd.edu> dong@umiacs.umd.edu (Dong Chen) writes:

>>There're still could be problem here. For many big company or school,
>>all out going calls has the same call-id.

>   True.  But I think that some PBXs support the full number coming through.  
>So even though at the time of the call it might not show the callers 
>full/correct number, if it was a nuisance call I'm sure PacBell could audit 
>the trail.
> 
> 



Oooopppsss!

These two are talking about the capability of the phone company to
tell a PBX (like ours) the origin of the call. While our system has
the capability of taking advantage of this capability, It's not what I
was talking about when I said "call-id". 

I should have been clearer in my posting...

"Call-id" at SGI means "the number you get when you log a call with
the Technical Assistance Center. Kind of a "Case-Number" for your 
problem. 

Our IVR system queries you for this number when you call to check the
status of your "Case". Any "Voice-Messages" between you and the
Support Engineer are attached to the "Call-ID". Flags showing status
of this "Voice-Message-Box" (the IVR box for your Call-ID) are visible
to our engineers and call-administrators when they look at the "Call"
in our on-line "Call-Tracking-System".

There, Everyone should now be COMPLETELY confused...

;-}


Seriously, that really is how it works, and it CAN help with the
"telephone-Tag" problem - mostly because it allows people to leave 
detailed technical messages. 

We've also got other cool ideas in the works...



Regards,


chris

--
D. Christopher Dunlap  		Customer Services Engineering
				Customer Support Division
email: dunlap@sgi.com		Silicon Graphics Computer Systems 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: chew@macross.csd.sgi.com (Stephen Chew)
Subject: Re: TAC - Who to contact.
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:36:47 GMT

In article <61822@mimsy.umd.edu>, dong@umiacs.umd.edu (Dong Chen) writes:
|> >In article <1992Nov6.094158.44464@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
|> > The message is tied to the 
|> >call-id, so you don't have to worry about someone being out sick or 
|> >whatever - whoever picks up the call responsibility will see the 
|> >message. 
|>
|> There're still could be problem here. For many big company or school,
|> all out going calls has the same call-id.

The call-id referenced here is the call-id given when you make a request
for support.  Each support topic/issue will have it's own callid and 
remains tied to the issue until it closed by a Support Engineer.

Tracking this data is ONE of the reasons we request you open multiple
calls for different problems.

I hope that clears things up.  The IVR system allows anyone associated
with a call to leave *and* receive messages.  It is not the answer
to all the logistics of supporting customers across North America or
the World but it's a start.

Dave Olsen earlier wrote that we are looking at TACs on both coasts and
other places.  We are.  We are looking at alot of solutions to providing better
support.  Chris Dunlap (dunlap@sgi.com) said he would be very interested
in hearing how you feel we could support you better.  We must take in account
our resources and our emtire customer base.  So would I.  Feel free in 
giving either of us your ideas, complaints and even joys regarding how we 
provide support via email or posting here.

Keep those letters coming.

--
Stephen Chew (chew@csd.sgi.com) "From one engineer to another,
SGI Product Support             trust me laddie, I kin do it!" - Scottie (TNG)
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