SGI: Computer Graphics

fzalfa: I just tested blender on an R5k O2 and it works (as long as there is a ~/.B.blend). What is the exact error you are getting?

greetings,
sgefant

hi

the error is: WRONG ARCHITECTURE.......lol

Laurent

*looks at tbcpp's programming ability in awe*

Hi there,

I tested it with my Octane/R16K/2Go ram/V12 and it runs well.
I did a rendering and that was ok (test.blend). I will continue tests.

Thanks tbcpp !

Finally got around to trying this out on my Tezro today - looks great; thanks much!

Well, my changes finally all got imported into the Blender source tree. I'm planning to pick this back up here in the next few weeks and work on getting Blender 2.5 compiled. This next version has a list of changes a mile long, so I want to make sure we get our Irix specific patches in quickly.

So when will the IRIX version be put up as news on the Blender site ?
How will the world know of the superhuman efforts you've put into it ?
And how will the world be turned green with envy as ye-olde SGI boxes chew through 64 threads ?

Mark

I sent the build into Blender today, hopefully it will get on the page soon.

I got around to downloading this blender version .. and it just core dumps on me

Got a Fuel V10, 1gb ram and IRIX 6.5.29

I don;t have Python setup yet, but would that make a difference ?

Also what else should be installed to make it run ? There a list somewhere ?

Thanks

Mark

tbcpp wrote: . What's does python -V show on your system? On the dev machine it shows "Python 2.5.2" which is the same as my custom compiled python. You may have an older version of python. I am also using Nekoware python so maybe you need to upgrade?

Wow. I've been using dexter1's mirror for centuries. The newest python there is 2.4.1 Other mirrors have 2.5.2

Dex is a little behind the times

edit :
upped Python to 2.52
Irix 6.5.30
Fuel

No .B.blend and I don't have one lying around. A placebo .B.blend makes no difference

hamei wrote: edit :
upped Python to 2.52
Irix 6.5.30
Fuel

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fewel 5% ./blender
guessing './blender' == '/usr/people/wacko/irix6/./blender'
Compiled with Python version 2.5.2.
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Checking for installed Python... No installed Python found.
Only built-in modules are available.  Some scripts may not run.
Continuing happily.
Bus error


No .B.blend and I don't have one lying around. A placebo .B.blend makes no difference

You can copy any .blend file to ~/.B.blend. Alternatively you could download an older version of blender, run it and press CTRL+U to save a new .B.blend.

Unfortunately blender crashes on Irix when trying to load files saved on 64 bit systems (lile the default .B.blend). I haven't been able yet to track down this bug. However, current svn should be compilable with gcc (using gmake), so any brave soul willing to have a look at this issue is more than welcome.

To use gcc, one has to add "export IRIX_USE_GCC=true" to their user-def.mk file. Here's mine for reference (using python 2.4 from nekoware):



edit: BTW, the python error messages are completely harmless and not related to the segfault. They just mean that some python scripts won't run.

greetings,
sgefant

I need to take a look at this. It's odd, since it seems to cash on some systems and not on others. The issue seems to be related only with some blends or the gui, as you can render fine from the commandline.

I'm going to fire up my Octane over the weekend and see if we can't squash this bug.

tbcpp wrote: The issue seems to be related only with some blends or the gui, as you can render fine from the commandline.

If this helps, the gui writes to the screen (fullscreen) then the app blows up almost instantly. Now that I think about it, there's a switch to make it start up at less than fullscreen size, I believe ? Maybe can try that tomorrow.

I'm running 1600 x 1200 @ 83 with a V12.

hamei wrote: Now that I think about it, there's a switch to make it start up at less than fullscreen size, I believe ?

the switch was for full screen vs windowed. i forget what the switch was.

./blender -w &

for windowed version

regards

Laurent

hamei wrote: edit :
upped Python to 2.52
Irix 6.5.30
Fuel

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fewel 5% ./blender
guessing './blender' == '/usr/people/wacko/irix6/./blender'
Compiled with Python version 2.5.2.
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Checking for installed Python... No installed Python found.
Only built-in modules are available.  Some scripts may not run.
Continuing happily.
Bus error


Same here, with a Fuel V12 running IRIX 6.5.30.

And this is what dbx tells me:

stopped on signal SIGBUS: Bus error (default) at [cast_pointer:745 ,0x106f08f8]
Source (of /usr/people/tbcpp/blender2/blender/source/blender/blenloader/intern/genfile.c) not available for Process 11556

Im getting a similar error on my machine.using either the version in the first post or the official build. Heres where the output dies:

Only built-in modules are available. Some scripts may not run.
Continuing happily.
Bus error (core dumped)

Hi there,

It's been a while but then I've been very busy trying to run a postproduction company in Hilversum and Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

But in this case I've put the default Blender startup in .sgidefaults as blender -w -d &

Try this and who knows the -d will give you more info in the shell.

Cheers,
Bob

ka0s wrote: But in this case I've put the default Blender startup in .sgidefaults as blender -w -d &

Try this and who knows the -d will give you more info in the shell.

It flashes onscreen for an instant then poof gone (fullscreen, it looks like.)

Thought you might like to know, seems to work fine on Fuel/900 with 6.5.26.

One question though - why is it so much slower than, say, V2.44? (the one I've been using for benchmarking)

On my Fuel/900, V2.44 does the test scene in 4 mins 16 secs, but the V2.48 build does it in 5 mins 30 seconds,
ie. 30% slower. What has changed?

Supporting lots of threads is not that useful until the app is first optimised for one thread.

Ian.