The collected works of hamei - Page 45

Thank, other. That's all correct, the interface is persistent, hardware-wise it's part of the mainboard (V100's don't have pci sockets : in fact they don't have any kind of peripherals). The first time it did this I immediately thought, "Oh shit, hardware failure" but when you reboot, both ports come back up fine. It's just that none of the ifconfig commands put dmfe1 into a running mode.

I'll try toxic's method next time and see what happens.

Okay, I'm arfing stewpid, thought I'd see how far up the food chain we can go with this thing ... pixman-0.28.2

Speaking of OpenMP, was talking to the main developer for GraphicsMagick a while back. We aren't able to make OpenMP work in Irix. (He gave directions, I pushed buttons, in case you were worried.) It would build but then crash badly. Even though SGI invented Open MP, it has problems with the current implementation

When we were done talking there was some doubt in my mind whether it was really working in Linux, either

If anyone in Texas has a dually SGI of some sort, a loan to the GraphicsMagick people might be a positive move ... unlike some unnamed developers, the GM guy really worked at making the code build with MIPSPro.

The 300 is top end for an r5k, so it's not eactly "low-spec" either The r5's are cooler and quieter than the R10's, they make for a nice O2. Just add more memory. O2's love memory, since they share it with graphics.


No, should be fine. I've run 300 gig U320 disks in an O2.

I would first try sticking it in the other slot, just in case there was some spooge or something in slot 0 that was creating a problem. In fact, since you say it came from the dumpster, did you clean out the old ham and cheese sandwich residue ?

IBM historically speaks its own language. RIPL ? What's that ? Oh, "netboot"

You don't have a camera ? that's what they all use for a file system. All the ones I've touched, anyhow.

FAT32 on Irix would be hot. Then we could go bigger than 2 gig on memory cards ... the firewire card reader on Irix is faster and more convenient than a USB reader in Windows, I keep getting "Can you transfer my photos off the SD card for me please ?" requests

^ Oops, edited myself instead of making a new post. Anyway ... ^

They could make it run Windows

Help, Cecil !

I could use a little confirmation of a big quirk from someone with MIPSPro ... or maybe does this with gcc also ?

With the dependencies already in nekoware you can build gtk2 up to at least 2.15.5. It all looks good and it might be my imagination but the presentation looks better - even in MPlayer however in any version 2.13.5 or higher if you try to download a file, fireflop locks up solid, goes unresponsive, doesn't eat any cpu cycles, just goes all zombie. It runs nicely at 2.13.2 but somewhere between 2 and 5 something changes bigtime. I think.

I guess the gnuboys are unlikely to fix any bugs all the way back there, hunh ? I'm wondering if it's something I am doing or a real problem. Confirmation would be welcomed.

Just as an aside here on the subject, I put gr_osview on the desktop for the past few days. Irix does not handle multiple cpu's as well as OS/2. If you watch, cpu0 is consistently harder-worked than cpu1. I'd bet the case is even worse with more processors.

In OS/2 no cpu shows a tendency to work harder than the others. They tend to be equally loaded.

I don't remember what BeOS did, but don't remember a bias like Irix shows.

As Bluecode has pointed out, Unix does not do this well. I find it hard to believe that yet another horseshit gnu "library" applied to all kinds of situations where it doesn't apply is going to improve the situation. Those idiots can't even figure out autoconf.

^ shoot, did it again. That's the trouble with bad habits, they become habitual ^

edit : a little update --

The break appears to be at 2.13.3 ... 2.13.2 works correctly and the appearance is better (carrot carrot). At 2.13.3 and higher (tried all the way to 2.15.5), suddenly rmb-ing to "save as" is totally b0rked. Saving from ftp likewise. Builds nicely, looks good, just has this one slight flaw ....

Nice hinv, Classy. Let me make one suggestion - ditch the LSI scsi card and get an LSI sata card. (3081x ?) Boot from the built-in scsi and use the quieter, faster, cheaper, humongous sata drive for data. Works good !

btw, what's the two mice ?

I thought it would be fun to have a terminal that can display characters, so gave it a shot ... I get :


and a lot of warnings. I don't envy you struggling with this thing !

I went in to get a nice tattoo also, but the snobby bastards refused

about:config

layout.css.dpi

change from -1 to whatever the dpi is of your display

va-va-vaoom, correct size fonts. Wish I'd found this before I spent hours on userChrome.css .....

scroll bars ; fireflop3 : gkt2: gtkrc-2.0

This is Try # One, most likely needs more improvement but some gtk2 resource files apply to Fireflop. I can grab the scrollbars now, woo-hoo !

Maybe we could build up a Motif-style .gtkrc-2.0 file for use in Irix ?

We have to face facts, Classy - Mozilla is nothing but a group of worthless loser assholes. If they caught fire, I wouldn't walk across the street to piss on them. End of story.

Concerning the std::bad_alloc crashes, they seem to have gone away. I upped glib, pixman and gtk2. Pixman probably didn't matter, glib maybe. The gtk2 to 2.13.2 made an improvement in the appearance and seems to have stopped most of the crashes I was getting.

That's the one I've got. It was $15, well worth it. The SATA disks are nice. The LSI scsi adapter is actually slower than the QLogic. If you hunt around here, Ian did some testing. He likes that testing stuff


Ah. That makes sense ...


Good luck with that


You're just the man to try this : Matrox DualHead2Go. Same function as a dcd, much easier to come by and costs lots less. Let us know how it works out.

I have seen some in-cable edid cheaters. You could probably program one to return "Silicon Graphics DM5" if you liked

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

There's nothing like a long lope in the moonlight through a snowy forest ... and a fresh rabbit in your jaws

If you connect a monitor to the original 13w3 connector with a DCD also attached, the 13w3 will work correctly (not that jittery thing) if its monitor is set at 1920x1154 ? Or did I misunderstand that ?

That is quite strange.

another gtk2 "progress" report ... came across this and thought I'd try it :

This was actually a post to someone who wanted to change the look of the gtk file handling but hmm, it seemed maybe applicable. So I tried it ...

Works at gtk 2.17.0 now ... except I'm swamped with

whenever I touch a button. Now wondering if it is possible to ditch this lovely 'atom' feature ....

Wait. Backed up to 2.13.2 again after realizing that other programs might use the file handling features of gtk2 also. Fireflop has a workaround but nothing else will

gtk2 is truly fubar

Oh, this is something you might not have noticed yet - did you know that Irix has support for either AppleTalk or AppleShare ? (I'm not sure which since I isn't an Apple person.) It's on the installation CD's ...

Who cares ? Unicode unicode unicode ... who gives a shit ? How many people run more than one language on their computer ? (Besides me.) What good is it except for clueless web developers who take one look at your ip then "helpfully" change the language on you ? Fucking nitwits.

Thanks so much, morons. I really wanted my page to show up in Assyrian cuneiform. I swear to God, if I could lure all the world's web developers into one room, I'd turn on the fire sprinklers and drown them all.

You could do it the other way ... X into your Linux computer from the Octane

That really is a terrible imposition, I agree ... If I'd only known you had to install your own editor and terminal, I'd have realized that CDE was worthless.


Absolutely. We used to be men ...

^^ Why is your system looking for //unix ? It's been five or six years since I've done an install but almost sure it should be looking for /unix ?

Somewhere in the environment settings you can change where the system looks for /unix, I'm pretty sure. I would do a <printenv> in the prom and check everything out thoroughly. Then maybe a < resetenv > just for good measure. You don't have anything customized yet, so no settings to lose and it's always good to start off from stock.

How about Solaris 10 and the way it "helpfully" partitions your disk for you ? Aaaaaah !! (runs screaming from the room)

Cool, duck. Thanks. I had a couple apps without Xdefaults entires ; added them and it looks a tiny bit more coherent. That trick even works for Ted

One small step for Man ...

J- sounds cool but could you make the photo a reasonable size and use the Browse ... and Add the file ... buttons instead ? Those file hosting sites come and go with the wind, which makes these posts useless for future information. Even a photo of an RS/6000 like this could turn out to be helpful to someone someday.

The DCD always works, but if you don't feed it a 2@ format that it can separate into two contiguous screens, you get a Ricochet Rabbit mess

Seems to me I did some non-approved stuff with mine a long time ago tho, and it was possible to do things you aren't supposed to.

Come to think of it, you are probably right. Since I normally have a 2@ format loaded and back when I originally got it and had this problem (flashy-flashy on the center channel) it may have come with a 2@ format loaded. So that would mean that as long as you weren't using it to do anything, the dcd doesn't do flashy-flashy on the base output. But as soon as you want to expand the screenestate, center channel becomes ping ping piiiing.

Duplicate displays is probably useful to someone ... not sure whom, but someone

Umm, actually, the point was not that I wanted to see a clunky old computer. The point was that using file-sharing sites on a forum like this is a bad idea. In a year or a month or a week those photos will be gone. Then there will be nothing here but a big hole. That's bad

Winzip will extract most iso's then you can ftp over the entire directory structure. Drag the bottom-level folder icon onto the dropbox of swmgr and it should update you. Or the top-level, depending on which end you are looking from