The collected works of GeneratriX - Page 3

Good night people!;

Thanks to Nekonoko, who is kindly hosting the older ones, and this new version of "GeneratriX SlimDesktop V0.05", now this new package is ready for download:

http://www.nekochan.net/downloads/contrib/diego/SlimDesktop_V005.tardist

Enjoy it!
Cheers!
(Thanks a billion, Pete!)

nvukovlj wrote: Anyway, there is an 'eval' version available for download now (not time limited, but rendering res. limited) from here:
http://www.realsoft.com/updates/irix/packages/realsoft3d-5.1.25-beta-irix-mips.sh

Hello Nik...

I've downloaded the file to give it a try.

I'll need to fill any form to get the evaluation license, or this is included by default with the installer? I've not tried to install the package by now...

Thanks in advance!
Cheers!

For those asking for the fix for the latest release of SlimDesktop V0.05, there is a working (b) release already uploaded.

Enjoy it!
http://www.nekochan.net/downloads/contrib/diego/SlimDesktop_V005.tardist

Cheers!

Wow!; I've noticed today the new graphic design of the Nekochan main cover, and I founds it really nice! Very good work! ...Hey, I've also noticed the mention to the new release of SlimDesktop.

I'm adding here a few updated details about the download available in the "contribs" section of this site, wich corresponds to SlimDesktop V0.05 Release B:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST (INDEXED BY ALPHA):
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* BlenderFoundation By:

"Blender Version 2.36"

* Greg Ercolano By:

"NixieClock Version 1.41"

* NEdit.Org By:

"NEdit Version 5.5 RC1"

* Nekochan.Net "Gallery" Section By:

Background Image Designs From [RageX]
Background Image Designs From [Mis]

* Nekochan.Net "Forum" Section By:

"MPlayer" FileType Icons/Fules Files From [UnixMuseum]

* Nekochan.Net "Forum" Section By:

"Mozilla FireFox Version 1.0+" Compilated Binary Files From [Foetz]

* Nekochan.Net Owner [Nekonoko] By:

-His Whole And Generous Support With His WebSite-

* QEMU.Org By:

"QEMU Version 0.6.1" From [Fabrice Bellard]

* Silicon Graphics Global Developer Program Plus By:

-The Whole Programming Adventure On IRIX & LINUX-

* The National Center For SuperComputing Applications By:

"Video Format Compiler" Video Format Source Files From [Stuart Levy]

* YafRay.Org By:

"YafRay Version 0.06" From [Alejandro Conty Estevez / YafRay Team]

SOFTWARE RESOURCE:
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* Generatrix SlimDesktop M00~M15 V0.05 (Beta) *
* Desktop Customization Modules *

(Wed. Apr 16, 2005)



TARGET:
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MIPS4 Based Machines From SGI (Silicon Graphics Inc.)
With 4Dwm ("The IRIS Extended Motif Window Manager") Installed And Running.



FEATURES:
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* Slim Lines Customization For 4Dwm Indigo Magic Desktop Making Full Use Of Spatial Resolution On Popular Visuals.

* Easy Setup To Multiply SGI Machines, With An Homogeneous Desktop Environment.

* Installation By Mean Of A Fully Automated IRIX TarDist Installation.

* Easier Setup Of Popular Applications That Frequently Are Not Availables In IRIX TarDist Installation Format.

* Upgrades And Enhancements Availables On A Periodical Base.

* A Perfect Companion To Get Freely Optimized Your Setup Of Generatrix Products As PartixFX And VideoTrackerRT.

* Without Any Kind Of Disturbing Promotional Add-Ons.

* Current Desktop Customization Modules:

M00 V0.05 (Beta) -> Global Information
M01 V0.05 (Beta) -> Backgrounds
M02 V0.05 (Beta) -> C Shell Settings
M03 V0.05 (Beta) -> Shell Profile
M04 V0.05 (Beta) -> 4Dwm Application Defaults
M05 V0.05 (Beta) -> MPlayer FileType Icons/Rules
M06 V0.05 (Beta) -> NEdit Version 5.5 RC1
M07 V0.05 (Beta) -> NixieClock Version 1.41
M08 V0.05 (Beta) -> Color Schemes
M09 V0.05 (Beta) -> SGI Session
M10 V0.05 (Beta) -> Toolchest
M11 V0.05 (Beta) -> Video Format Compiler
M12 V0.05 (Beta) -> YafRay Version 0.06
M13 V0.05 (Beta) -> Blender Version 2.36
M14 V0.05 (Beta) -> QEMU Version 0.6.1
M15 V0.05 (Beta) -> Mozilla FireFox Version 1.0+

Thank you very much, Pete!
Cheers!

recondas wrote: Thanks Diego - I installed SlimDesktop V0.05 on one of my systems and had some minor issues - the "Background Settings" window would remain open no matter what I did - it was even visible on top of the login screen. Probably something simple, but I couldn't find it, so I un-installed SlimDesktop and restored the config files I backed up prior to installation.

So what'd I fubar?

Hello "recondas"!,

please, let me know what kind of SGI system you are currently using. I've tested SlimDesktop on four different configurations of O2 boxes; ranging from R5K/180MHZ-64MB to RM7K/600MHZ-768MB, and each system was reportedly without any kind of problems; but I know that some kind of platforms without hardware texture memory could not handle with proper speed the XPM files that I've bundled with SlimDesktop.

In fact I've considered this kind of issues, arranging four different kinds of resolutions for the background files, to not just enable lower res desktop to handle the backgrounds properly, but also to allow the machines without TRAM modules to handle littler images with a surrounded solid colour of your choose.

The chances are, that your "Background Settings" panel is actually loading perfectly the XPM file, only that it takes definitively too much time to set up properly the background preview frame. That looks as a system hang-up, but in fact the system is trying to show properly the image, just that too slowly. If you wait enough, you'll be able to see the image. My O2 600MHZ changes between two high resolution background files on about 12 seconds.But in fact R5K/180MHZ takes a lot more.

I've downloaded the tardist, just to test the integrity, a few days ago and was funtional without errors in O2(s) running IRIX 6.5.26/6.5.27; but as I've mentioned, I can't test it in others SGI platforms, so; please, write here a post including: 'hinv' and 'uname -aR'

I'll try to see if ther is some other kind of problem!

Thanks in advance by your feedback!
Cheers!

foetz wrote: sorry, i won't release non-nekoware tardists of mozilla-family apps in the near future.

Well; as I've stated before, I've released FireFox as a tardist inside SlimDesktop because up to the date of launch, FF was not available as tardist.

Now; if you are carrying up all the work by yourself, then there is no need to make a parallel tardist for FireFox inside SlimDesktop.

In fact, it takes some time for me that I'll need for my own projects. Under any light, I'll leave FireFox out of SlimDesktop starting from the next release in advance.

foetz wrote: the nekoware IS all tardist.

Sorry; then I've referred more properly to those "FoetzWare" days, where the whole Mozilla's family was always in binary format, and never in tardist... anyway, I don't know if you are even releasing non-tardist versions as in the past.

foetz wrote: why do you think so? i just stopped the weekly cvs builds cause of 3 nasty bugs the mozilla
guys didn't solve so far.
as soon as it's done there will be as much builds as there were in the past

Sorry Foetz; my excuses for these missunderstanding, I've was just too bussy on my own things here on latest weeks, not awared at all about this.

Then you'll release again binaries after solved those three bugs by the Mozilla's team, right? ...In fact my only conceirn was more precisely about the prosperity of your new tardist releases, on wich I'm more interested.

I'm hardly using binaries or hand made installs on my systems; so, I have a compulsive obsession to convert any non-tardist distribution to a tardist one! ...So, I'll be happy enough while you can put your latest version of any of those browsers to be downloaded as tardist, no matter if there is a binary version on the 'contrib' folder too

Thanks in advance by your good work.
Best regards,

Not QNX on it, but check this out:

http://www.littlechips.com/index.htm

foetz wrote: sure, but i'm up to date with the releases. the bug just prevents me from building the weekly
cvs versions.
just have a look into my folder.

This is cool; I'll wait anyway for the next tardist, since I'm up to date by now. Also, I have arranged the new release (V0.06) of SlimDesktop to upload soon to the FTP account of Neko; and starting with this release in advance the Mozilla FireFox tardist is not included anymore on my combined package. So, I'll let the whole task for you!

Thanks in advance by your excellent work!

...mmmhhh
Anyone has completed succesfully the build of YafRay V0.0.7 on IRIX? ...I got the package already compiled, but on the 'make install' phase I get:

skywriter wrote: last time i compiled yafray was with 0.0.6 and gcc 3.3 on MIPS. yes the performance was pretty poor. yes the binay was huge. yes the experience was digusting. but it did work. sometimes that's all the counts anymore. too bad. I would have too say that this source (at the time) relied on too many GNU-ism's like libtool to make it worth using a different compiler.

Hello Ben;

it compiles fine, even with MIPSPRO; is on the install process where it fails. Anyway I've rescued manually all the decisory files, to arrange those on the classic YafRay dir structure, as follows:











And an 'ldd' shows that it is linked as follows:



...But on execution complains with:

skywriter wrote: weird.... but free!

heheh!
...Seems that the only way to debug it is doing a trace for those unresolvable symbols ( _ZN6yafray9context_tC1Ev ... _ZN6yafray9context_tD1Ev ) but I have not too much time by now, and this build is only strictly fro my spare time!

foetz wrote: likewise! it's always nice to have a coder in the neighbourhood

Thanks Foetz.
BTW: What do you think about my issue with the build of YafRay V0.07? Seems pretty weird...

Compiling YafRay V0.0.7 On MIPSPRO

foetz wrote:

Diego wrote: BTW: What do you think about my issue with the build of YafRay V0.07? Seems pretty weird...

Compiling YafRay V0.0.7 On MIPSPRO

looks like there's an -L entry missing in the install routine.

Weird, I've browsed the Makefile, and ./configure was adding correctly a line for -lyafraycore. But regardles of this, I've noticed that was linked against some MIPS3 standard libraries instead of MIPS4. I'll check deeper later. Thanks by your point of view!

foetz wrote: no problem, but i haven't done much

Oh, I can't say by now what was wrong with YafRay there, but I'll check once backuped those 18Gigs that I need to stock now...
Thanks in anyway; sorry by this little "steal" of your thread!
Salutti!

dexter1 wrote: Ok everybody please start laughing at Yafray makefile "specialists", 'cause this one is a real screamer:

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.
g++ -shared -nostdlib /usr/freeware/lib/gcc-lib/mips-sgi-irix6.5/3.3/crtbegin.o  .libs/pathlight.o .libs/pathtools.o  -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lyafraycore -L/usr/freeware/lib/gcc-lib/mips-sgi-irix6.5/3.3 -L/usr/bin -L/usr/freeware/lib/gcc-lib/mips-sgi-irix6.5/3.3/../../.. -lstdc++ -lm -L/usr/lib32/mips3 -L/usr/lib32 -lgcc /usr/freeware/lib/gcc-lib/mips-sgi-irix6.5/3.3/crtend.o  -Wl,-soname -Wl,libpathlight `test -n "" && echo -Wl,-set_version -Wl,` -Wl,-update_registry -Wl,.libs/so_locations -o .libs/libpathlight
ld32: FATAL   9  : I/O error (-lyafraycore): No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 32 exit status
libtool: install: error: relink `libpathlight.la' with the above command before installing it
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
*** Error code 1 (bu21)


g++ ??? what the hell does that do in a mipspro build? Looks like somebody made a sick joke upon us. I tried this myself and even with env settings like 'setenv CXX CC' it still came up with g++.

Nice catch, Dexter!
...but I've also tried using g++ (GCC Version 3.3), and I can't get a clean install here... Hence my words:

Diego wrote: it compiles fine, even with MIPSPRO

As far as I can see, it is not a very clean "multiplatform" sourcecode, but I could be wrong!

dexter1 wrote: No Diego, you're missing the entire point.

With the Makefile.in template you ALWAYS compile with g++ even when the ./configure script says it has found CC and you have set environment variables the right way.
The g++ is HARDCODED in all Makefile.in templates...

Ouch! Now I really feel stupid!
That's it, seems that I'm too much hurried by this days, and I've not taked well care of your post...
Now all has a lot of sense.

dexter1 wrote: If you really managed to get it compiled with MIPSPro 7.4.x you should have had complaints with

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#include <cmath>

in 2 files because that is an old, unsupported style header file. See my patch, it's in there...

That's why you need to change all g++ occurences with @CXX@ in all Makefile.in files. Then do a ./configure again and it should start compiling with MIPSPro CC.

Nah... then, I've never really compiled with MIPSPRO; now I can see the g++ sentences hardcoded in my Makefile.in! :shock:
Sorry, I'm felt in the fact too late. You can see it even in my previous post! Augh! :(

dexter1 wrote: The make install problem is an entirely different one. Looks like the supplied libtool severely screws up. The solution is to get the latest libtool from gnu.org ( 1.5.18 ), ./configure;make that one and copy libtool and ltmain.sh to the yafray top source dir. Then do

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./configure --enable-static --disable-fast-install ; gmake ; gmake install

The next thing that you get is that every cout/cerr stream ending with '<<endl' will segfault and dump core. Looks like the coders got overzealous and decided to overload every << instance in their own ostream class. Handy...
Replacing all '<<endl' with '<<"\n"' seems to fix this. Better get a script to do that for you.

I have this almost done. Good testing still needs to be done before we can go to '-Ofast -IPA'

Well; seems a lot of work for a nice piece of software that I'll only use a few minutes by month in my spare time... But stills interesting...
I already have done a tardist install for Blender 2.37a, and I could like to add this one to the list of customizations modules for my SlimDesktop, since both makes a good douple!
SlimDesktop has currently included a tardist for YafRay V0.0.6, but if the new version is "NekoWared" I'll be happy pulling out the 0.0.6 to replace it with another "IRIX-Orphan" software...
The prerequisites for a program, to be added to my SlimDesktop are:

1) Not other tardist versions visible on the net for such program.
2) An IRIX friendly roadmap of the program, without too many gcc/g++ 'isms or platform dependant vicious.
3) That the program by itself can be interesting from a graphic/visual work point of view for the end user.
4) That the program can enhance the already available features on IRIX/IMD/4Dwm.
5) The author agreement about the inclusion of his software on my big tardist install! ...Even when sometimes I'm too lazy to ask to the authors, and I only wait for a claim to pull-out the whole thing!

But as a rule of my philosophy, I'll not double efforts already present on the IRIX community, beeing this SGI FreeWare, NekoWare, or whatever else. So, every tardist version already present on SlimDesktop for a given program, yet covered by the SGI/IRIX community, there'll be replaced for a new one acomplishing strictly the above five rules to keep my software rich from the point of view of their originality and usefulness.

This also works as a good way to manage better my time at front my SGI boxes!

foetz wrote:

Diego wrote: Salutti!

pizza

...La pizza è buona, migliore se con buoni vino e cantimpalo de Calabria! ...Saluti per la Germania!

This is a normal output from Yafray V0.06, for comparation purposes... oh, and yup, complaining about the Python environment variables, that I must fix at some point in my system



The generated XML file :



These will give you a cube with the upper face hardly enlightened...

dexter1 wrote: Oh Mr Diego, i think you might want to read this:

viewtopic.php?t=1826&start=112

Very cool Dexter!
...Now we can play again with raytraycing on Blender using the latest version of YafRay! I'll download now to give it a try. Thanks by the mention of the NekoWare thread...

Wow!; nice benchamarking figures... I guess I must run the test on my O2/602MHz to have the whole picture about what different processors/platforms can do with Dexter's build of YafRay!

...Great to see that our monsters can crunch ray traces really fast!

...nice work Mr. Dexter!
I think the YafRay sourcecode is really good to be free, and worths the pain a lot, to have it working properly on IRIX. Specially for people having multi-processor boxes. Also, I've noticed on previous versions that the illumination behavior is a lot different than the Blender's render engine...

Omega_Trion wrote: It's been a good day. My copy of Zeta R1 has arrived and cost only $84.00 shipped. Oh and not to mention I also recieved my unopened copy of Nextstep 3.3. Now I'm off to fetch a PC to install on to. Screenshots soon.

nice!; I could be interested to know also your PeeCee hardware config, and the degree of support on the drivers side for every device present in your box. I've always liked BeOS, and Zeta seems a fair honest release, with tons of support for COTS.

I've already used all the above books at some point of my studyings, but if you need something for "desk-side" fast consults DEITEL is a nice way to go, and has excellent books available on many languages...