IRIX and Software

http://www.thecommune.org.uk/~lisa/programs.schtml

If it gives you gyp, just reload. rss_glx is near the bottom of the page. This needs libbz2.

What's new:

Textureless support for Flux and Solarwind screensavers (--notexture/-T)
New geometry types for same (--round/--spikey)
Single buffered mode (can be fast, more colourful, etc.) (--single/-1)
MIPS3 support (must explicitly select when installing - due to "fun" with software packager, the user must ensure only one option is selected.)
(Irrelevant with tardist) Minor source fixes to remove GCC reliance

Nice! I'll try this when I get home from work this evening as well as post up something in the news.

Ahh, good job

I had wanted to do the textureless changes you mentioned to me back when I prepared a tardist for this but I had just been overworked as of late and unable to do it to my tardist - glad to see someone step up and get it done

Wow! The savers (from your tardist) seem to be MUCH more stable. Great job!
Did you add the SGI logo to "Falls"? Nice.

At the risk of sounding ungrateful for all the work you've done I still have a few "issues" that perhaps you can lend some insight into;

On an Octane2 (2x 600Mhz) with V6 graphics Cyclone (still) just gives me a blank screen. Is it just on my system?

On an Octane (2x 400Mhz) with ESI graphics, the "advanced" savers (textured?), like the version of Solar Winds with "fat n' fuzzy" lines, the images still appear in a small box in the lower left corner of the screen and they page through the images rather than a smooth motion.

Thanks lisp!

Falls w/SGI logo actually comes with later versions of IRIX

I've just tried the Cyclone saver and I also get a blank screen. However, the savers as a whole are fantastic and very much appreciated. Thanks for the work on this!

squeen wrote: Did you add the SGI logo to "Falls"? Nice.

I'm not even sure my IRIX is new enough to have the Falls screensaver

squeen wrote: On an Octane2 (2x 600Mhz) with V6 graphics Cyclone (still) just gives me a blank screen. Is it just on my system?

I haven't got any images from Cyclone either - I thought it might just be my graphics - I shall look into it.

squeen wrote: On an Octane (2x 400Mhz) with ESI graphics, the "advanced" savers (textured?), like the version of Solar Winds with "fat n' fuzzy" lines, the images still appear in a small box in the lower left corner of the screen and they page through the images rather than a smooth motion.

I'll look into polling the window size and regenerating the viewport.

As for the paging problem, that's an artifactdue to combining motion blur with double buffering. You could try single buffering (--single/-1), but that may stop the image from being as smooth. The only othersolution I can think of is to copy the lastbuffer rendered to the new buffer before display. I have a gut feeling this would completely destroy the framerate, but I'll look into it.

Unfortunately, at the moment, I'm a little busy wearing silly clothes and being given a certificate with "Masters of Engineering" written on it

I'm having trouble getting name resolution for http://www.thecommune.org.uk...Is there anywhere else we can pick up the tardist?

Cheers!

Slide wrote: I'm having trouble getting name resolution for http://www.thecommune.org.uk...Is there anywhere else we can pick up the tardist?

Same here..

Slide wrote: I'm having trouble getting name resolution for http://www.thecommune.org.uk...Is there anywhere else we can pick up the tardist?

Cheers!

I could mirror it here if it's okay with lisp.

From here (Brussels) it takes a bit of time, but eventually it appears.

An error occured while loading http://www.thecommune.org.uk/~lisa/programs.schtml :


Unknown host http://www.thecommune.org.uk

If someone could put up a mirror that would be great. I'd LOVE to see those screensavers in action here.

Get it from here: http://eroteme.org/rss-glx/rss_glx.tardist

Bahhhhhh

I'll need TRAM to be able to use them :-(

I believe lisp nixed the TRAM requirement.

Textureless support for Flux and Solarwind screensavers (--notexture/-T)

There was trouble with our ADSL - thecommune.org.uk is now on line.

As for textureless support - this has to be explicitly enabled. Modify the flux and solarwinds files in /usr/lib/X11/savers/defaults/ and add the parameter -T.

Ahh, that does the trick. I couldn't even load most of 'em before this little hack. Thx again lisa!