ritchan wrote: it's shocking that even a Fuel would struggle to decode it.
hamei wrote:eMGee wrote: I almost forgot about posting my own system!
Looks pretty nice, em ! I believe to get the photos into the gallery you ftp them up. Then neko puts them into a gallery manually.
bplaa.yai wrote: Not bad for a "dead" OS, you posted this in the same time as I received the FreeBSD advisory & patches
Installed, didn't break anything so far, but I didn't test it so much either.
deBug wrote: You can probably move it out of beta Neko.
mapesdhs wrote: No such luck...
sgefant wrote: That crash probably is not related to python. Do you have a .B.blend file in your home directory? if not, try creating one by running a older version of blender and pressing ctrl+u. If blender 2.48 works then, you've hit the same bug as I did.
hamei wrote: Scan it, jan-jaap, and we can all upgrade our Fools !
canavan wrote: Does anyone know how to renumber this card so that it appears as tg0 and tg1?
recondas wrote: The SAS3800X might be a nice solution for someone with limited internal expansion <Origin 3xx(x)?> to whom the external only ports would be an advantage. Eight 1TB SATA drives in an XVM array would be interesting <or two four-drive/4TB mirrors>.
fzalfa wrote: this feature won"t work with irix 3.x ??
Tom Paquin Jul 12 1991, 4:20 am wrote: It is possible to get a two-color cursor on a PI. It is not simple, it is not low-risk, and it won't work for most existing PIs because of system software issues. It nukes warranties and bags support.
Of course, this is not a procedure endorsed or recommended by Silicon Graphics. But that's not the worst part. I am fairly sure that you'd have a tough time getting support for (allegedly) unrelated problems if you call the hotline and say "I have a PI, but I've soldered some of my own chips into it, but that shouldn't matter and anyway, I have this other thing that isn't working." I haven't read whatever agreement gets you hotline support, but I think it likely that if you do this, you are completely on your own. I'm no authority on this.
The two-color cursor mod is entirely incompatible with pre-4.0 Irix. Unless and until you get 4.0, you do NOT want to try this; the result will be a machine which won't boot. (Yes, there are intelligible reasons for this.)
The mod requires soldering your graphics board. One slip and you could waste your board. This kind of failure is not, I believe, covered by any sort of warranty. (Did you buy your PI with AmEx?)
OK, so if you're crazy, not dissuaded, or merely curious:
0) Get used to the idea that if you screw this up, you're out at least your graphics board and SGI isn't going to fix it for free. Believe that all your future support may have to come from comp.sys.sgi.
1) Make sure you're on Irix 4.0 (or later?). If you're installing 4.0 and doing the mod, you must do the 4.0 inst first.
2) Go to the store and buy a Brooktree chip which says Bt431KC on it.
3) Remove your E module. This holds the CPU and graphics board. Take the entire E module out of the PI chassis. Then turn it graphics-side up and remove the faceplate. You can tell graphics side from CPU side by looking at the connectors on the back. If you need more help than that, you shouldn't try this. Once you can see the graphics board, check for a Z buffer. If you have a Z buffer installed, remove that. Be careful, ground yourself, etc.
4) Locate through-holes for an absent chip labelled I8G6. It's right next to an existing Bt431 kinda in the middle of the board, right next to the large Weitek chip.
5) Solder the new Bt431 in the I8G6 location, oriented the same way as the existing Bt431. They'll be right next to each other. The through-holes should be filled with solder. You'll probably have to empty them first. Remember not to screw anything up with that soldering iron.
6) Reinstall your Z-buffer if you had one, put the cover back on the e-module, reinstall the e-module, and boot. Irix 4.0 will try to use the new chip.
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-Tom
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Opinions are mine, not SGI's.
The PowerOne model will shut down gracefully. I know, that happened to me too
$150 got me the Crimson, Octane2, extra drive sleds, external drives, large box of QIC tapes including original VFX software from the late eighties/early nineties, etc.