The collected works of agkbill

My first SGI computer.
Got it up and running thanks to great help from Ian Mapleson, thank you.






Best regards,
/Christer

Thank you!

I am located in Uppsala, Sweden.

Need to update my info.

Best regards,
/Christer

Wow, great to see that there are more Swedes here.

It sure is cool machines, now I "just" have to find out how to compile from source code on these. I would like to get a never version of Puredate ( www.puredata.info ) together with the OpenGL add on GEM up and running on my fuel.

But until then I will first change the fans, have successfully changed powersupply and CPU 120MM fans, now it is time for thous noisy 60MM fans

All the best!

/Christer

The powersupply fan I replaced with a akasa FT-35A.

It is a two pinn fan with thermal sensor.

1200-2600 RPM
18-30,5 dB(A)
15,84-35,32 CFM

Works great in the powersupply due to the built in RPM regulation. I have not disabled the fuel enviroment monitoring.

I can rally recomend this fan for powersupply.

/Christrer

Very nice, works great on my Fuel.

But I can not find how to stop the program.
It feel a bit hard to reboot every time.


Regards.
/Christer

Hi all!

Hope that someone more then me are trying to get sound out of there fuel with this sound card.

I bought one that have a break out box. So my first question is if that one will work at all?

It is not easy to mount the break out box because soundblaster made the front wider then the openings that the fuel is offering for CD, DVD.

Well, the soundcard itself I mounted and it workes rather OK.

hinv gives:

fuel 1% hinv
1 500 MHZ IP35 Processor
CPU: MIPS R14000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.3
FPU: MIPS R14010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 2.3
Main memory size: 1024 Mbytes
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL12160, low voltage differential
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL12160, low voltage differential
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2
IOC3 parallel port: plp1
Graphics board: V10
Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, module 001c01, pci 4
Iris Audio Processor: version EMU revision A4, number 1
USB controller: type OHCI
fuel 2%

So my card is there as "Iris Audio Processor: version EMU revision A4, number 1"

I do get sound out, but what looks like a problem is the right/left setting. Or the way sound is routed.

When I with PureData I only get sound from one channel, if I chose both the strength goes down a bit and if I use the outher chanell no sound at all.

The same goes for xmmx, it play music, but when I use the balance slider it goes from strong audio it I have maximum at one side (sound is coming out of both loudspeekers) and then weeker in middle and no sound on opposite side.

I do not know what is going on here.

Is there setting that I need to do in IRIX?

Something with the hardware, some specially wire?


Any input would be most appreciated

All the best!

Regards,
/Christer
Uppsala, Sweden

I have looked and tried some with the Audio Control Panel, but not found anything there.

I don't think it is as easy as just a left/right level thing (or maybe it is) because of compleatly lack of signal in one channel and that sound from the other get out in both loudspeakers.

I will take a second look however.

Thank you.

I have been playing around with the "Audio Panel" and xmms.

- I ungrouped the sliders and if I set L to 0 then no sound at all.

- If R is on 0 and I take up L no sound, but if I just take R up to maybe 0.5, sound is on, like a switch.
Then I can controll the volume with L.

- Sound is coming from both speakers.

Maybe this is the way it works with this sound card and the Fuel, I do not know.

All the best!
/Christer

Thanks for all comments,

I have not tested in a PC, and I will not be able to. The one I have (as well as the fuel) are located in soundproof boxes and on top of that all PCI slots are occupied.

My hope with this one was to use together with break out box and get stereo.

Well mono will do with my PureData stuff.

Best regards,
/Christer

I guess it should not work in only mono. On Ian's page under fuel things I found that he sell the Audigy2. He writes "Add 35 to include an Audigy2 PCI Audio Card (not as good a quality sound as the Rev 7.1, but does the job)."

Maybe there are different types of Audigy2 cards around.

I bought the card from a PC owner and according to him the card was working just fine, including the break out box.

/Christer

Looks like very few have experience from sound cards on there SGI machines.

But it make sense, it is not for nothing the G is for Graphics

That was the reason I got my fuel as well, for the vintage graphics. But with a connection to audio.

I have PureData (Pd) with GEM up and running. GEM is working great with the graphics and my ide was to used Pd to get soma sounds.

All the best!
/Christer