The collected works of ajw99uk - Page 2

ajw99uk wrote: ... or I would if it weren't showing me a nice red/white LED show - "Graphics configuration error", which I hope means "settings not right for PROM screen but can be reset from L1 console" rather than "V12 has died"! can't set up serial console tonight, sorry.

recondas wrote: you can reset it to the default 1280x1024@60Hz with the command /usr/gfx/setmon -x 1280x1024_60 followed by a reboot. If you want to reboot with the keyboard and mouse reattached, power down before reconnecting.

smj wrote:

ajw99uk wrote: - 6.5.22m overlays and patches from SGI supportfolio
- bigger disks, 2GB -> 9GB -> 18GB -> 36GB (the 2GB came 95% full, and the 36GB now has around 10GB free!)

From your description, it sounds as if you may have been duplicating one installed/updated IRIX installation across several disks. Did you use any of the guides here in the forum or in the Neko wiki ? If so which one was most helpful or did the trick for you? Or was it something external, like Ian Mapleson's site?

Just wondering if we could get a little feedback to improve local resources.

Thanks, and nice machine.
--Steve.

ClassicHasClass wrote: PICTURES please.

ClassicHasClass wrote: Actually, it's neat to see how people set up their computer rooms.

TeamBlackFox wrote: Re sluggishness its probably not the WM, but Systemd. The overhead it adds will slow down your computer. I'd suggest rolling back to Wheezy or else migrating to another distro. There is no reason that a clean OS install/upgrade should be any slower, especially with LXDE.

Re desktop environment, CDE is always an option, and with some tuning you can make it look/operate like 4DWM. Also, Enlightenment is another I've used, very appealing but also lightweight.

TeamBlackFox wrote: It won't, you're going to break the distro trying to remove it...

TeamBlackFox wrote: You can always move to another distro, but I'm sure thats not something you're wanting to do. Gentoo and Slackware currently do not utilise systemd, but thats probably not gonna change. Take it from me - I left GNU/Linux for BSD, not only for systemd, but for other reasons.

Kumba wrote:

TeamBlackFox wrote: Re desktop environment, CDE is always an option, and with some tuning you can make it look/operate like 4DWM.

I hope it sees active development, as I found CDE to be quite usable when I had to maintain an HP-UX server once. And I've grown somewhat attached to the Motif look of it.
As for faking the 4DWM look, since that Maxx desktop project appears to be dead, the other option is fvwm. Supposed to be a very highly-configurable X11 WM, and there's at least one IRIX-like theme that I know of for it.

TeamBlackFox wrote: Also, Enlightenment is another I've used, very appealing but also lightweight.

I think you're talking about Enlightenment 0.16. Enlightenment 0.17 and up basically have an entire framework behind them now which is supposed to be pretty good.

jpstewart wrote:

Kumba wrote: don't think you have to avoid Debian. systemd is just going to be selected as the default init system upon install. You should be able to replace it with sysvinit after the install is complete.

Sounds right. A few weeks ago, a routine 'apt-get update' installed systemd and removed sysvinit from my Debian/testing system. I was not impressed with systemd; things just didn't work right. A simple 'apt-get install sysvinit' re-installed the old system. After that is installed, you need to run 'dpkg-reconfigure init' and purge systemd. (I'm not sure of the order in which those two things need to be done.) You could also choose upstart instead of sysvinit if you prefer.

Anyway, the point is, Debian Jessie certainly allows selecting between systemd, sysvinit, and upstart through the init metapackage. You won't break the whole distro, as somebody suggested...so long as you have the init metapackage and either sysvinit or upstart installed.

wenp wrote: I've tried just about every lightweight window manager out there and found one of the most stable to be IceWM. When users want a Windows-like interface, IceWM is what I give them. It is IMHO the most user-friendly of the light WMs and there is a great range of themes available. For the Windows refugees, I make it look like Vista. It does take a lot more manual configuration than setting up KDE or GNOME.

hamei wrote: Windows XP or Windows 2000 if you are a rabid anti-DRM zealot like yours truly.
[... lack of applications for Linux ...]
If you want to actually do anything, save yourself a lot of grief. Windows XP. At least it's static, it's not going to get any worse. Or Mac would probably work too, but I don't know enough about that. Maybe try Linux again in the year 2525.

jan-jaap wrote:

chicaneuk wrote: Stupid question but what is it that's missing in the shot of the rear, above the power supply?

That's where the optional PCI cage slides in. Normally it's covered.

uunix wrote: The one with the white serial?

recondas wrote:

ajw99uk wrote: A minor update for 2015:
Noscript - 2.6.8.29 seems ok but higher versions fail to install, so beware the offer to upgrade that appears from time to time. I've not tested with all higher versions, these certainly fail :
2.6.8.31, 32, 35
2.6.9.5, 10

Interesting, because I'm running one of the NoScript versions you mention, 2.6.9.10, on four separate IRIX systems. NoScript 2.6.9.10 is the most current release as I write this.
All four are running FF 3.0.19 from nekoware.
Anyone else running NoScript under IRIX care to report which version they're running?

diegel wrote: There is an updated dillo package in beta now.

chicaneuk wrote: Awesome result Hopefully it's a reasonably decent spec!

Dans34 wrote: if you do part it out put me down for the drive sled

ajw99uk wrote:

chicaneuk wrote: Awesome result Hopefully it's a reasonably decent spec!

Not expecting much - the model number indicates 175MHz R10K i.e. lowest processor in an Octane.

vishnu wrote: Ian's got an Octane dual R10K 250 for sale for 125UKP, about halfway down the page: http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/sgidepot/partsspares.html#OCTANE

vishnu wrote: How dusty was it inside the poor thing? Octanes are notorious dust collectors...

recondas wrote: The Fuel User Guide advises the brinking red-white lightbar your seller seems to suggest he's seen also indicates the same "graphics configuration error". Perhaps the seller didn't have the kb&m connected, or had the connections reversed (I can't recall for certain if the Fuel and Tezro share the no-keyboard/mouse=gfx cfg err. Still have a Fuel but haven't had the occasion to start it in over a year).

MrWeedster wrote: 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.

TeamBlackFox wrote: They said retirement only comes when they start to break.

vishnu wrote: How do the compression connectors look? Warped or oxidized? Any evidence of overheating, charred PC boards in the system unit or power supply? Non-Vpro graphics are pretty cheap these days when they show up on Ebay. Or you could pay the premium price for a brand new one at Ian's depot...

hamei wrote:

vishnu wrote: I think the first thing to do would be to check the installed software and remove any CADduo driver(s) you see there...

Even before that, I'd do a < printenv > from the prom, write down anything interesting, then do < enableall > and < resetenv >. That way you're starting out with a clean foundation.

hamei wrote: Mickey should be tied to a post in front of a firing squad for the newest docx abortion. The only way I have found around that so far is some Windows crap or an online converter. Grrr. Anyone know of a handy-dandy docx-to-reasonable converter ?

ivelegacy wrote: hi guys
btw, i have seen SGI has an USB PCI card, SGI part number 9210286

NEC chipset - Slotted for 3.3 and 5V PCI applications. SGI equipped Onyx 350 InfiniteReality and InfinitePerformance systems with this card as an attachment point for USB keyboards and mice.

There are some references on TechPubs indicating Orange Micro as the OEM, while "UP205-0525" screened on the PCB returns Adaptec references. It appears in an hinv with a PCI vendor ID of 0x1033 (NEC) PCI device numbers 0x0035(Dual OHCI controllers plus Single EHCI controller) and 0x00e0(USB 2.0 Host Controller)

which seems to be a product pretty compatible with SGI machines. I do not know if Octane2 has ever had it, and if Irix has ever supported that. Any knows and feedback is welcome

ivelegacy wrote: i am a funny person, for example i have bought an Acorn Risc/PC machine, equipped with a strongArm @200Mhz and a 486DX4@100Mhz guest second cpu board, this machine in such hw configuration is able to run Windows 3.11 inside the x86 card and to handle its interface inside RISC/OS, from the user point of view it looks like ~ "virtualBOX", i mean a box within an other OS, on W311 box i have installed Mathematica v3 , and WordPerfect . They run very nice, it's a pleasure to use them, as it's fun on Irix.

It happens sometimes, for hobby purposes
all funny things