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Hi all.

I'm trying to get my USB mouse and keyboard running in IRIX under my fuel. Plugged both in, booted up, and in the console, wich comes on boot up, i could move the mouse and type letters with my keyboard.
But if IRIX is up, i wont be able to use one of both. They're doing nothing.

Before i got the mouse connected with a PS/2 adapter. And i got a Keyboard with a native PS/2 interface on it. But that doesn't work that good. The native PS/2 is one with german keyboard layout, but i hate it for work with UNIX, so i configured it with US layout, but my backslash and so the pipe won't work, what is essential on UNIX (well, at least the pipe).
So i'd like to hook up the USB Keyboard to my fuel (which has native US layout), but as mentioned above - it doesn't work.

Anyone knows what to do here?


Another issue is that i can't configure the display resolutions higher then 1600x1024 (got a V10 in it). If i'd like to change the resolution to something >1600x1024, i get the question, if i'd like to make it the default for power on, which i answer with yes. Then there's an error-message, saying "illegal power-on configuration.

The thing is, before i made a complete reinstall on a new disk, there was a IRIX installed, on which i could make resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 without a problem (well - the problem was eye-killing 60hz on a CRT, but it worked).

Can anybody tell me how to fix this?


Another thing: I've read on the forums with the gigabit cards for the fuel. Nekonoko was explaining about how to get the hp NC7770 card to work on the fuel. He said that the driver has to be modified.

What i understood, was that i need to make an octal dump of the driver:


And then change line # to <something>

Well, that should not be a problem, but i don't know with which tool i should make this?



THX for your help.



greetz

schleusel wrote: I used an USB keyboard (IBM Preferred USB) on my fuel without problems. You might have to edit /etc/ioconfig.conf to change the priorities of the ps/2 and usb input devices, see the usbinput manpage.

worked like a charm.

1600x1200 and higher is only supported at 8 bytes/pixel framebuffer size on the 32MB cards. You'll have to first change the framebuffer depth from 16 to 8 bytes in xetmon (or with -d8 if you're using command line setmon) before you can change the resolution in a second step.

Ok i tried that. First i tried setting the color-depth to 8 bytes and then did a reboot. After the reboot it was again 16 bytes. Tried to change that again in xsetmon and then the resolution without reboot - "Illegal power-on configuration". So, no success.

with the hex editor of your choice

THX



greetz

schleusel wrote:

MrWeedster wrote: Ok i tried that. First i tried setting the color-depth to 8 bytes and then did a reboot. After the reboot it was again 16 bytes. Tried to change that again in xsetmon and then the resolution without reboot - "Illegal power-on configuration". So, no success.

hmm, are you sure you really applied the setting? Notice the separate load button for the framebuffer depth field - its a little unintuitive.
And no need to restart anything in between. Choose the framebuffer depth, click the load button of that field, choose the resolution, click the load button of the resolution field..

aaah - ok. I thought i should apply with the load button on top, where you change the resolutions...

really ugly to drive 1920x1200 with 60hz. But i think there wouldnt be any chance to get it up to 85hz in that resolution?

And another question: On boot up i get a message in the console, that some firmware is too old, but its gone too fast (because X is starting).
Is there some tool like dmesg, where i can see the boot-up messages?
(btw, is there some sort of command line reference, where all possible commands are listed, and what they do?)



THX & greetz

How much is the actual bid?

Hi there.

Today i got a new Toy, a nice O2 R12k.

Because i have no root pw and wanted to install it new anyway, i decided to do so with my pre configured fuel which acts as bootp and netinstall server. It acted as install server in previous installations of other machines, so i dont think the fuel or the images on it are broken.

I did it like described here: http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/ ... a_SGI_Fuel
Besides the fact the automatic response file doesnt works (it only loads my first overlay disc and then asks about what to open next) i followed the steps in this tutorial, stating the keep and install commands manually.

I always get this error:

ERROR: No product corresponding to "" at line 628 of cosmoplayer.idb.

If i decide to not install cosmoplayer then it mocks about mozilla.idb.

If i remove mozilla*:
ERROR: Missing symval attribute for etc/rc.0.d/K27sgi_apache at line 4 of sgi_apache.idb.

And so on.

I think if i remove * it would run ^^

I searched the net a bit and only found some threads about upgrading irix which stated that this error comes up if someone didnt install path5086 prior upgrading, which isnt the case. I would make a fresh install of 6.5.30f

Can someone help me with this?



Another question regarding the O2:

How can i remove the dark blue bottom without destroying it?
And is there a way to access the frontplane without destroying anything?


Thanks

Yes its a fresh install from sa.

I did this before with my Octane and Origin 200 from the same sources, and it worked perfectly.

I copied all the CD Roms to the disk with
cp -R /CDROM
on the fuel.

And as is said, the netinstall with this files/images worked one or two months ago with my Origin 200 perfectly.

But i will try to install from the CDs, maybe the files are damaged as you said.

I dont remember how i copied exactly.

Maybe it was with cp -aR.

Ok got it working.

The problem seemed to be the applications image. I've choosen to install apps from the cd - Voila.

Now the only thing left is how do i separate the metal housing from the plastic foot and extract the frontplane without destroying anything.

Any ideas?

Hi there.

I've seen your pdf already today, because i plan to get the noctua mod, too.

But it doesnt go as far as i need. I need to remove the bottom plastic to gain access to the bare metal shell.
And i dont have a plan how to do that without breaking things up.

Basic disassembly of the O2 is described in the O2 owners guide, but that doesnt describe how to remove the floor plastics neither.

For the records: I found it with the help of another guy.

At the bottom foot there are two plastic tabs which hold it in place.
These two need to be liftet a bit (i've broken one) and the foot should slide a bit to the left.

Now the foot can be easily removed.

O2? *Duckandcover* :>

Greetings.

Setting up my fuel for installing the soon-to-arrive o2 gives me headaches again...

I try to change my network settings so she takes my new router/network as default, but it always resets to the old settings.

New: 192.168.178/24 with Gateway/NS: 192.168.178.1
Old: 192.168.0/24 with Gateway/NS: 192.168.0.254

Domain name is cause of the fritz!box: fritz.box

So i put in hosts


resolv.conf before boot


resolv.conf after boot


/etc/config/static-route.options




I enabled dhcp, ran the network config with every user in every possibility to change the network settings in every way, no chance.

On every reboot the same settings in resolv.conf




Why, oh why, oh why?

Uhm, no, the old router is long gone.

And i also tried running network without dhcp client.

Hi guys.

At last the forums are up again, thx

So i finally found my tezro on ebay by the end of nov 2014, maybe some of you followed the auction .

Finally she came after a month shipping through half the world on time to christmas

The auction stated that there is a gfx config error on boot up and its got 2GB ram.
Prior to bidding i found the post on the forums about the error, that its just missing the monitor plugged in.

In fact the machine ran great, and also has 8GB ram, wohoo (of which 2gb are disabled, but hey )

Ran? Well, after booting her up for once and seeing everything is working, theres even the original irix installation on the disk.
I already got a plan regarding quieting the baby down. The fans were laying there for weeks to get built into the tezro, and so i started replacing the fans.

After 6 hours soldering i finally got everything back together. But something didnt work out quite well. Switched her on, wow, nice and almost unhearable....
But after ten seconds or so i got an error in the L1 display: "VRM not ok, vcpu #1...."
Damn...
After looking around i think i found the broken part: The error message says it: The vrm plugged between the DIMMs seem to be cooked, shit.

I then thought about the PSU fan replacement maybe failed and i killed the psu... (Its one pice of sh*t to work with)
Well the psu works, and the currents seem to be ok (im an electronic noob, but i can measure currents, i think ^^).
I then fiddled around with the psu, opening, looking what may could be wrong (im still living, no panic ^^), building back the original fan in, replug, run, vrm message still there.......

I found the right VRMs on ebay and ordered six of it (oO), i think they will arrive tomorrow or wednesday.

Now the question is if i could trust the psu. In case it fails i got enough VRMs left, but you know....

I also fiddled around with other psus to get the baby running. You know, i waited since ten years to get one, and now its broken and its Dez 23. evening and fuck.

So i got the tezro working with my standard enermax psu......
With that in mind that a standard psu could work in the tezro, im thinking about replacing the whole psu with a silent and efficient platinum psu.
Two problems there: The 10 Pin 12V (CPU) connector and the i-dont-know-what-it-is-cables (5 Pin, like the old cd-rom audio cables) that seem to handle environment monitoring (because i dont have the vrm errors with the enermax psu and the tezro boots to the maintenance menu, and yes i know im crazy as fuck to even try this out).
The first problem is none, because you in example just take the PCIe connector for the graphics card and plug it in reverse besides the 8Pin 12V CPU connector you have on the standard psu.

Trying to boot the tezro with the enermax psu freezes the machine, i think it has to do with the VRM.

I keep you updated with my experiments.


[E]
What id like to add:
The fans ive choosen are noctuas with 1800 rpm.
As i found the environmental specs of the tezro, telling that the warning rpm for the fans are at least 1500 - 1800 rpm, i thought they would be best.
Now i think the tezro dont give full power to them, because in L1 env they show around 1500 rpm.
Is there a way to tell her that she should always give full power to the fans?

Maybe i have to choose other ones that turn initially faster.

But guys i tell you - With all the noctua fans she is not really noticeable, except the whiny scsi disks, you know them

Yes it did until i shut env monitoring down.

Because i bought one of the new O2+ from israel, i was in the search of 600 mhz o2 cpus, too.

I found one german that said on his site that he has some left, altough the entry is ten years old, so i contactet him.
He meant that he moves around and the cpus/eproms/etc lays somewhere and he takes a look when he finds time.

Its some time now, i think i contact him and see....

And the base 300 Mhz cpus and board you can purchase here .

So i finally got the tezro to become my favorite new furniture

I think the first thing to say to curious people is that its an alien artifact i found somewhere, or maybe, as some stated, some sort of sex toy from ancient giants

I dont want to pretend that i need the machine for work x to be done, nor that i can do anything usefull with her, so:

What is an interesting task i could be interested in because i own the machine? ^^

I thought about diving into vj`ing with puredata. I got a vision about a epic party in a club with some freak sitting in front/of top of a tezro, between two tesla coils sparking flashes out of them, making the most epic live visuals, live programmed in OpenGL/Some sort of self written code to make visuals, making an absolute megaepic show of live visual jockey'ing, and an all around epic experience, with tools and things no one ever saw before
I think i should smoke less....

Another thing, that also maybe could fit in the above, would be to work with/dive into the flame/inferno suite.
Im not in Video things in any way, so i think it will be a hard way, but if i'd like to go the vj route, i have to.
Also i have to buy the hardware first. Thats where i dont know if i should spend a fortune in something i dont need (Haha im so stupid - But i love it).

What kind of (maybe crazy) ideas do you guys have to show her off?

Another thing will be i get her as a fileserver to a LAN i visit once in a while
I got three FC Netapp Shelves here, so i think i can build a nice array with xvm to make a nice fileserver for the looks

And if you still didnt get it: I love the sgis for her design, and thats the primary reason why i collect them.

And if we are here anyway: Who designed the tezro? What was he thinking? Does anybody know anything about the background? Are you here?

Well...

I received the VRMs today and was happy like a little child, but it didnt solve my problem: Still vcpu vrm #1 damaged....
So i think the psu is dead?

And if i try with the enermax psu i got the same problems like you: it comes up to the maintenance screen, but trying to boot to the installation tools (i dont have a working installation of irix for ip53 on some disk to try) hangs the machine - I got a black screen, but the l1 reads: os running. I think i'll hook up the console cable.

I never had the gfx config error.
Maybe i reseat the V12

And i got a quad 700, too.
If you want to take a look: Mine is the one in the english tezro article on wikipedia

Nope, there is just the IO9 card.

And i got bad luck recently: My fuel killed her disk. Before that i fiddled with the psu. When i switched her on, the disk made 'pffft', smoke from the two black fuse(s) near the current connector of the disk.
I dont know what that was, but my fuel installation is also gone, and i dont seem to find cheap 68 pin disk on ebay, so she is broken since then.

And i dont even seem to get a cu connection on the console from my o2 to neither the fuel nor the tezro.
if i do a cu -l ttyd2, i get the connected message, but nothing then.
I even tried to set the baud rate to 38400 as stated for tezro, but no chance.

I reseated the V12, but same problem: When the screen switches from "obtaining installation tools" to the next one, it just stays black.

Now the last part to break would be the V10 from the fuel...

I dont know what to do now....

To focus on the issue im posting my problems with the tezro here.

Yesterday i got the VRMs i thought that were faulty. After exchanging it the problem stayed the same:
If i want to boot into installation tools/OS the screen turns black and nothing happens.

The L1 reads "OS booting" to "OS running", but the screen stays black.

It took a while to figure out how to connect to the serial console/l1, but now i got it and made some screens.

The one is before switching on (I wonder why it onlys shows some currents of the (enermax) psu).
The other is right after switching on, and the last after shutdown - There you can see that the last line also complains about the VRM.

Im so confused about this. What does she want from me and how can i find out?
Btw i took the original PSU to some guy who should repair it, maybe more luck with the genuine psu.

Do i have to replace the ip53 board? Or something else? V12? Maybe i try the V10 from the fuel.

Ok i think i found it, laying in the case.

Board broken :<

[Update]

It turned out the part was from the IO9 card, near the holder bar for the card.
I soldered it back in, changed nothing.

Update #2: It seems to be the V12 (maybe the whole machine ^^).
I exchanged it with the V10 from the fuel, now it works.

Installing now

Shes running really good now.

But i have to find out something about the fans. Is there a way to shut off autofan control and let them blow 100%?

Right, i exchanged the fans and the trouble began.

But going back to the papst fans is no option. Instead, i cut the node fan cables today and soldered the +12v lines from the fans to an adapter i plugged directly to the psu.

Now the noctuas run at their desired speed of around 1900-2000 rpm, and even the tacho signal works now. Dont ask me why ^^

So, after around 30 minutes up in idle, the temperatures are as following:



The silence of the baby is awesome!

I now try to get all the tacho signals and try to get the pci #1 fan speed up, or exchanged, to finally turn on env monitoring again.

Ok, i redid some fans and put them on V12 (HD and PCI#1).
Now the RPMs are in the good range, so i turned env monitoring on.

After running about 30 mins in idle:



Well its not that quiet now as before, but at last she runs stable with cool temps and acceptable noise level.

Love it

[E] Some Pictures:

Mind Game

But its special interest ^^

Today i played with the test command on the L1 a bit and found interesting things:



Which part do i have to change? Node board?

Hello.

I try to install the dev things for the tezro based on irix 6.5.30

Which cheat do i have to put in to get it installed? Im trapped in conflicts hell and dont find anything to solve it.
I have nearly every cd you can imagine and nearly tried every combination possible.

In the manual http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=relnotes&fname=/usr/relnotes/IDF it says:



Trying to install the first cd gives me the following conflicts:

Missing of dev.sw64.lib and dev.sw.lib
They are on the Dev Libs. I tried five different dev lib cd dirs i downloaded from all around, but then the following appears:

dev.sw64.lib and dev.sw.lib and all what it installs is incompatible with base.eoe.sw and have about 50 conflicts.
I also read in the base 6.5.30 overlay cds, but that changes nothing

What do i have to do to get it running?

Hmm i did it somehow.

Now im stuck installing autoconf. I got the nekodeps script and tried to install autoconf, but it always complains about neko_m4 should be opened. If i do so it says the distri is empty?

[E] Worked by installing both beta versions

After playing around more i found out some interesting thing:

The V12 works, but only at the PROM and the Desktop - Between the screen stays black (Which also means you cant install the OS).
My problem was that it somehow killed the OS disk that came with the tezro - So i wanted to install new on a new disk, but the screen stayed black.

So i built in the fuel V10, installed the OS, switched back to V12, be patient to let her boot, and as soon as the login screen appeared, the picture returned on the monitor.

For the PSU i took a cheap used Corsair HX520, which works perfect. Also i got a new front panel (Thank you Ian), so shes perfect:

Well at the installation of 6.5.30 it says PROM is up to date, no flashing required.

But without console/boot messages how should one be supposed to install the os? (Because that screens doesnt work either)

Good a Prism Thread showed up (Besides it shifted to Tezro).

The next Love machine is on the way - The Prism Deskside - I want to have them all


For linux its stated that one needs red hate 5.5 or suse linux 9.x with ProPack 4 to get in touch with X.
Is the same true if i just put in one of the graphic cards? I think the statement is only true for the dual AGP config.


Can someone confirm that?

So to complete my collection of unusual (purple ) computers, i recently bought a prism.

Big mistake as it turnes out.

I cant get this thing to work. There are no SLES9 cds to get on novell.com, so no chance getting the box running with a X server.

Somewhere i have read that the SGI propack stuff that could enable the X server for the machine is also avalable for RHEL 5.5, which i got luckyly downloaded somewhere from the net.
Booting RHEL5.5 gets the machine stuck on "freeing kernel memory". Disabling apic, acpi and other kernel options didnt change anything, after exessive tries its always the same: Stuck on the message above.

So i tried debian 7.8: It boots to the text installer, then the keyboard isnt working anymore...

I was whoever able to install SLES 11.x. But after install it somehow tries to enable the x server (even though i tried to unselect all the x-org server stuff in yast), which results after boot in a wild jumping cursor on the console and endless messages "unaligned memory (or was it kernel) access: <memory-adress-range> - <memory-adress-range>"

I thought the problem with the x server sources in the two agp graphics cards that are installed, so i thought maybe the problems can be bypassed by taking out one of the cards, but no luck, still getting wild blinking cursors, unaligned memory access or other strange behaviour with all sorts of linuxes i tried.

The machine was preinstalled with debian 6.0, which also ends up with "unaligned access" error messages at some point, but i somehow can get it running. However, after updating through apt-get i now have "broken packages" error messages when i try to install something with apt-get.

Then i wanted to try freebsd: No chance, doesnt work either.

I dont know if the problems are because of the EFI part, or the itanium part of the machine, but im totally fed up.

Can someone please tell me how i can get this thing to work, the best would be having it running with a x-server.

What do i want with a machine drawing nearly 500 watts of current running text consoles?

I forget to mention that i also have found the propack cds that are needed for these special linuxes that bring the special kernel and stuff. But i just dont get suse linux enterprise server 9, sp3, ia64 from nowhere.

And yes, i also tried with the minimal memory config, and its the same result.

I downloaded the Pack, but it doesnt contain the SLES9 IA64 Base-Images, which are the problem.