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Wrote on the subject of What we* do for a living... at Nov. 8, 2005, 4:16 a.m...

Hakimoto wrote: and lo behold, Signaling System 7

Welcome to my world

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Wrote on the subject of Howto delete / amend toolchest entries ? at Nov. 8, 2005, 9:36 p.m...

whiter wrote: that's not an option.
I'm searching for a way to do it from .auxchestrc.

That doesn't make any sense. Using .chestrc in your home directory doesn't change system wide settings (just the user), so why should it not be an option? It's no different than using .auxchestrc in your home directory.

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Wrote on the subject of MOPAC 7 compilation at Nov. 14, 2005, 1:34 p.m...

mnorton wrote: hi,

I didn't see Octave in the nekoware directory. Is the current build still unstable on Irix?

thanks

We never had a Nekoware version of Octave - just a version I built a while back that doesn't work correctly.

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Wrote on the subject of ESR: Smart Questions at Nov. 16, 2005, 11:59 a.m...

That's actually a very good idea and a great article too; not sure where I'd put it and if anyone would actually read it though :/

I have an idea which thread brought this topic up and I feel your pain. Generally I tend to whistle and pretend I didn't see the post at all when they reach that point

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Wrote on the subject of The True Future Of Blender On IRIX, By Ton Roosendaal at Nov. 17, 2005, 4:43 p.m...

GeneratriX wrote: I've fixed the path issues, now I only need to fix the 'MIPS4' thingy, since Nekoware is MIPS4, and by default Blender is arranged for MIPS3...

Yep - I was thinking about compiling Blender myself this weekend with static MIPS3 libraries. I've done it before in the past, I just don't have a lot of spare time right now.

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Wrote on the subject of Do you... at Nov. 18, 2005, 1:45 p.m...

VenomousPinecone wrote: Hehe, well I must admit anything with an acronym for a name sounds designer to me.

I believe RDX is a component used in explosives, not a drug

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Wrote on the subject of Access L1 Controller Information from within IRIX? at Jan. 3, 2006, 4:48 a.m...

I think you want 'man l1cmd'. Some examples:

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l1cmd(1M)                                                            l1cmd(1M)




Name


l1cmd - Send a command to the SGI L1 System Controller




SYNOPSIS


/usr/sbin/l1cmd [--scdev device_name]  command

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[Mai:~] neko 2# l1cmd --scdev /hw/module/001c01/L1/controller env


Environmental monitoring is enabled and running.




Description    State       Warning Limits     Fault Limits       Current


-------------- ----------  -----------------  -----------------  -------


12V    Enabled  10%  10.80/ 13.20  20%   9.60/ 14.40   12.063


12V IO    Enabled  10%  10.80/ 13.20  20%   9.60/ 14.40   12.125


5V    Enabled  10%   4.50/  5.50  20%   4.00/  6.00    5.044


3.3V    Enabled  10%   2.97/  3.63  20%   2.64/  3.96    3.320


2.5V    Enabled  10%   2.25/  2.75  20%   2.00/  3.00    2.470


1.5V    Enabled  10%   1.35/  1.65  20%   1.20/  1.80    1.466


5V AUX    Enabled  10%   4.50/  5.50  20%   4.00/  6.00    5.096


3.3V AUX    Enabled  10%   2.97/  3.63  20%   2.64/  3.96    3.285


PIMM 12V BIAS    Enabled  10%  10.80/ 13.20  20%   9.60/ 14.40   12.125


SRAM    Enabled  10%   2.25/  2.75  20%   2.00/  3.00    2.509


VCPU    Enabled  10%   1.44/  1.76  20%   1.28/  1.92    1.607


PIMM 1.5V    Enabled  10%   1.35/  1.65  20%   1.20/  1.80    1.495


PIMM 3.3V AUX    Enabled  10%   2.97/  3.63  20%   2.64/  3.96    3.285


PIMM 5V AUX    Enabled  10%   4.50/  5.50  20%   4.00/  6.00    5.096


XIO 12V BIAS    Enabled  10%  10.80/ 13.20  20%   9.60/ 14.40   12.000


XIO 5V    Enabled  10%   4.50/  5.50  20%   4.00/  6.00    5.044


XIO 2.5V    Enabled  10%   2.25/  2.75  20%   2.00/  3.00    2.457


XIO 3.3V AUX    Enabled  10%   2.97/  3.63  20%   2.64/  3.96    3.268




Description     State       Warning RPM  Current RPM


--------------- ----------  -----------  -----------


FAN  0  EXHAUST    Enabled          920         1147


FAN  1       HD    Enabled         1560         2280


FAN  2      PCI    Enabled         1120         1577


FAN  3    XIO 1    Enabled         1600         2410


FAN  4    XIO 2    Enabled         1600         2205


FAN  5       PS    Enabled         1349         3183




Advisory   Critical   Fault      Current


Description       State       Temp       Temp       Temp       Temp


----------------- ----------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------


0 NODE 0            Enabled    [Autofan Control]    80C/176F   41C/105F


1 NODE 1            Enabled    [Autofan Control]    80C/176F   42C/107F


2 NODE 2            Enabled    [Autofan Control]    80C/176F   34C/ 93F


3 PIMM              Enabled    [Autofan Control]    80C/176F   45C/113F


4 ODYSSEY           Enabled    [Autofan Control]    80C/176F   43C/109F


5 BEDROCK           Enabled    [Autofan Control]    85C/185F   45C/113F




[Mai:~] neko 3# l1cmd --scdev /hw/module/001c01/L1/controller version


L1 1.38.4 (Image B), Built 06/30/2005 00:01:44    [Fuel/PE/O300 1MB image]

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Wrote on the subject of Intel iMac at Feb. 10, 2006, 6:02 a.m...

I bought one of the 20" models to play with; supposed to be here on Tuesday. Ordered it with 256MB VRAM and a single 1GB SODIMM. Picked up a second 1GB SODIMM from OWC as that was cheaper then getting them both from Apple.

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Wrote on the subject of Intel iMac at Feb. 10, 2006, 11:40 a.m...

Whoa - just arrived. Got a shipping notice from Shanghai just yesterday too. Currently setting it up

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Wrote on the subject of Woot! 100k Seti units! at Feb. 13, 2006, 7:32 a.m...

I used to be active but the power bills were just getting crazy. California is probably the worst state in the US for power costs.

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Wrote on the subject of DIY XVR-100 at Feb. 21, 2006, 6:50 a.m...

Hmm, I might have a Mac PCI Radeon 7000 out in the garage; I'll have to dig around and see. If so I'll make it available if it's needed.

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Wrote on the subject of IMPORTANT: Read this before posting at March 6, 2006, 9:35 a.m...

All:

Please refrain from posting inflammatory e-mails concerning eBay sellers on Nekochan. The threat of litigation is real and has recently been brought to my attention. If these posts persist I will be forced to take the Nekochan forums offline permanently.

Thanks for your cooperation.

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Wrote on the subject of dexter2 or deedee2 at April 26, 2006, 9:13 a.m...

Congratulations!!

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Wrote on the subject of Nekoware-mips3 at April 26, 2006, 4:28 p.m...

Well I fired up my old Indigo last weekend after replacing a dead battery. Great machine - but it sure would be nice to have some basic Nekoware stuff (how spoiled I've become!). So I took advantage of the fact we have such a great resource of detailed compilation instructions, patches and complete distribution files and began to "respin" existing Nekoware packages as mips3.

The basic procedure is to do a 'keep *' on a mips4 nekoware package followed by a 'install neko_somepackage.opt.*' to get the goodies needed for a recompile (instructions, source, patches and dist files). All compilation was done on IRIX 6.5.22/MIPSpro 7.4.4m on an Indigo R4400.

It's only been a few days but I've already put together enough to become useful including basic utilities (Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.), fun stuff like dexter1's XMMS and GQMPEG, server goodies like Postfix, BIND9, OpenSSL/OpenSSH and more.

Everything should just work unless I missed stripping out a 'mach' dependency in one of the dist files (got bit by that at the outset). If these packages prove useful to someone, great - if not, hey, I've got some stuff to play with on my Indigo now

http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/downloads/index ... are-mips3/

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Wrote on the subject of Nekoware-mips3 at April 29, 2006, 12:44 p.m...

BetXen" wrote: Do you plan to compile the latest version of rsync too?

It's all a matter of time - I've only been working on this a week now

I just finished that one today.

If there are any other packages folks want to see sooner than later (provided they're already in standard Nekoware) let me know and I'll try to bump them higher in the priority chain.

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Wrote on the subject of Mirroring Techpubs Docs at May 10, 2006, 12:25 p.m...

jan-jaap wrote:

IVarious Linuxisms (debian 3.1) may be hidden in here.

Works on IRIX too provided you change the first line to point to your local bash binary (and you have wget/lynx someplace). Been pulling down the docs for several hours now, thanks!

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Wrote on the subject of Lightwave 5.6 oddities... at May 10, 2006, 12:53 p.m...

Yes, it does look like this is mips4 which is of course an issue:

Code:

[Ryouko:~] neko 154# file fsel

fsel:           ELF N32 MSB mips-4 dynamic executable (not stripped) MIPS - version 1

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Wrote on the subject of Lightwave 5.6 oddities... at May 10, 2006, 1:04 p.m...

mia wrote:

The demo version can load but not save.

Regardless that fsel isn't gonna work if it's mips4 (and it is)

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Wrote on the subject of Mirroring Techpubs Docs at May 10, 2006, 2:25 p.m...

Spidy wrote:

It might be worth mirroring them here, right next to the nekoware stuff?

They don't seem all that big :wink:

Can't do that without their permission I'm afraid.

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Wrote on the subject of Lightwave 5.6 oddities... at May 12, 2006, 5 a.m...

I fixed the mips4 problem; here's a new fsel for you to try:

http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/downloads/nekon ... sel.tar.gz

But just for the record, my mips3 Indigo running IRIX 6.5.22 seems to work just fine with the stock Newtek fsel.

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Wrote on the subject of quad-precision benchmark at May 18, 2006, 4:44 a.m...

squeen wrote: Running modified code (below) on 1 1Ghz R16K, I get

-Ofast=IP30

Shouldn't that be -Ofast=IP35 in your test case? Maybe it doesn't make much of a difference.

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Wrote on the subject of quad-precision benchmark at May 18, 2006, 5:02 a.m...

squeen wrote: OK, The same machine (R16K) that ran 0.24 sec with MIPSpro ran 7.37 secs with gcc (-O3), roughly 30 times slower .

Is it any wonder why we use MIPSpro for Nekoware?

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Wrote on the subject of GFX_CFG_ERR at June 1, 2006, 9:21 p.m...

lewis wrote:

Reseating the graphics board might help but that is a pretty serious mission in a Tezro, much harder than an Octane, I think.

Not sure about the Tezro, but changing out the graphics board on the Fuel wasn't much fun either (went from a V10 to a V12). There's actually a screw that goes through the bottom of the machine into the card along with the more obvious fasteners.

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Wrote on the subject of Nekoware-mips3 at June 1, 2006, 11:55 p.m...

Okay, still working on this - 119 packages and counting. Now that I have a lot of the libraries completed the applications are coming along pretty quickly.

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Wrote on the subject of libinventor.so.3 required? at June 5, 2006, 10:47 a.m...

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[Ryouko:~] neko 13% versions long | grep libInventor.so.3


f 42180  9069 inventor_eoe.sw.inventor   usr/lib/libInventor.so.3


f 49211 16311 inventor_dev.sw.lib     usr/lib/libInventor.so.3


f 44708  8706 inventor_eoe.sw.inventor   usr/lib32/libInventor.so.3


f 28598 12667 inventor_dev.sw.lib     usr/lib32/libInventor.so.3




[Ryouko:~] neko 14% versions | grep inventor_eoe


I  inventor_eoe         01/27/2004  Inventor Execution Only Environment, 2.1.7


I  inventor_eoe.man     01/27/2004  Inventor EOE Manual Pages


I  inventor_eoe.man.pages  01/27/2004  Inventor User Man Pages


I  inventor_eoe.man.relnotes  01/27/2004  Inventor User Notes


I  inventor_eoe.sw      01/27/2004  Inventor User Software


I  inventor_eoe.sw.2_0  01/27/2004  Inventor 2.0.1 Run-time


I  inventor_eoe.sw.inventor  01/27/2004  Inventor Required Files




[Ryouko:~] neko 15% versions | grep inventor_dev


I  inventor_dev         01/27/2004  Inventor 3D Development Toolkit, 2.1.7


I  inventor_dev.man     01/27/2004  Inventor Dev Doc


I  inventor_dev.man.pages  01/27/2004  Inventor C++ Man Pages


I  inventor_dev.man.relnotes  01/27/2004  Inventor Release Notes


I  inventor_dev.sw      01/27/2004  Inventor Optimized Software


I  inventor_dev.sw.base 01/27/2004  Inventor Toolkit Header Files


I  inventor_dev.sw.lib  01/27/2004  Inventor Toolkit Library Files (non-stripped)

It's on one of the IRIX 6.5 CDs though I'm not sure which one off hand - all mine are stored in one in directory online and I'm at work away from the physical media.

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Wrote on the subject of SGI hardware in movies at June 8, 2006, 2:10 p.m...

There's a description of the "laptops" used in Twister here:

http://www.bftr.com/Pages/projects/twister.html

Probably much the same for Congo.

Quote:

In the story, the two rival chase teams --one corporate sponsored, one low-tech university funded-- both have sets of computer equipment that was to match their incomes. SGI product placement dictated that ALL of the computers in the film had to be SGIs, so we had the task of making not only two distinctly different sets of graphics for nearly every scene, but different-looking EQUIPMENT between the two teams. This was nowhere more evident than with the SGI "laptops," which of course didn't exist. With the tireless dedication and help of Dan Evanicky at SGI, we were able to design and build two different fake laptop shells around the SGI Corona LCD flatscreen displays, with seven functional and seven dummy cases for each design, we had a handful to take care of; each "laptop" had a powerful custom backlight run off a separate 12-volt DC power supply and multiple cables which ran back off the set (often through mud and puddles) to the Indy CPUs which fed them. Each shell was custom-milled for us by IDE, a prototype manufacturer in the Silicon Valley.

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Wrote on the subject of SGI Art Gallery at June 19, 2006, 3:19 a.m...

Before this thread gets hijacked further - here's an eight page thread on computer names:

viewtopic.php?t=311

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Wrote on the subject of SGI Art Gallery at June 19, 2006, 4:51 a.m...

Spidy wrote:

I take it Neko you want to kill this thread? :wink:

No, but the title of the thread is "SGI Art Gallery" in IRIX: Computer Graphics ... let's try and keep it on topic

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Wrote on the subject of Nekoware-mips3 at June 22, 2006, 12:07 p.m...

Ga53n wrote: Today I wanted to try out firefox on my Indy, but wanted to use a mirror and could not find one.
So is mips3 SW only available via nekochan.net and not through a mirror?

That's correct - it's my personal project at this point.

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Wrote on the subject of Seti Enhanced at June 26, 2006, 10:02 a.m...

nvukovlj has uploaded new Nekoware boinc/setiathome packages to 'beta'; they're now on the European mirror as well.

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Wrote on the subject of Seti Enhanced at June 27, 2006, 10:18 a.m...

nvukovlj wrote: @Dr.Dave - sorry, the tardist is only mips4. There are dependencies in nekoware, so to create a mips3 binary I would've had to also re-compile these libs. The sources are included with the tardists together with release notes, should you wish to compile it yourself.

Not a problem, I've got this covered - all the necessary dependencies are already complete in my nekoware-mips3 project so I'll upload a couple mips3 tardists based on these packages today.

Edit: Packages are complete and in nekoware-mips3/current.

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Wrote on the subject of Nekoware-mips3 at July 19, 2006, 6:11 a.m...

Not a problem! Had to PM dexter1 the other day to get the mirror going; he doesn't drop by anymore unless you bug him

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Wrote on the subject of Nekoware-mips3 at July 19, 2006, 2:40 p.m...

dir_marillion wrote: As my Indigo takes internet via "CCPROXY" of my old PC that has not a monitor (I am working it via VNC) and it is always on for emule, I would like to see:

a samba version with swat
and
a p2p client

Like I've said, if it isn't in nekoware-mips4 it's not going in nekoware-mips3 - I'm not going to do exclusive packages that don't have an equivalent in the the mips4 distro. This is just a 1:1 port project

If you want to see these things you'll need to post something in:

viewtopic.php?t=4348

... and once someone does a mips4 package I'll re-roll it as mips3 based on supplied patches.

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Wrote on the subject of Nekoware-mips3 at July 20, 2006, 6:54 a.m...

nelsonbt wrote: thanks nekonoko for this great resource!

I could _really_ use a vncviewer on my I2 for those random times I need to hit a winbox.
It's listed in mips4 nekoware as neko_tightvnc-1.2.9.tardist with dependencies: libjpeg,zlib which are obviously already in the mips3 supplement.

Done, might take a little bit to hit the mirror - give it a try when you get a chance

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Wrote on the subject of Nekoware-mips3 at July 20, 2006, 12:01 p.m...

nelsonbt wrote: works great on my I2-R4400 -- quite nice with a phobos fast ethernet card.
thanks nekonoko!

(checked, and the vncserver also works)

Cool, I have one of those in my Indigo(1) R4400; makes a huge difference. I just bought a Set Engineering card to play with as I've heard they offer even more performance.

Glad to hear it's working!

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Wrote on the subject of Nekoware-mips3 at July 20, 2006, 2:50 p.m...

schleusel wrote:

nekonoko wrote: Cool, I have one of those in my Indigo(1) R4400; makes a huge difference. I just bought a Set Engineering card to play with as I've heard they offer even more performance.

not really
I have the Set Engineering in my r5k-180 Challenge S and it performs about as poor as the Phobos E100 (EISA) in an Indigo2 (~6.5 MB/s peak according to ttcp). And it does Half Duplex only..
It might keep up with the Phobos G100 but i'd trade it for a G130 in a second. The advantage of the Set Engineering is that you don't need extra drivers. Even the miniroot kernel already knows the board, so you can use it for network installs..

Ah, okay then - in that case I'll just put it in an Indy and keep the G130 in the Indigo. It's doing full duplex pretty nicely at the moment

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Wrote on the subject of A mysterious shut-down... at July 31, 2006, 8:40 a.m...

Oskar45 wrote:

zafunk wrote: I had the same problem recently and had to kill the environmental monitoring.

Hmm, I'm not sure that killing env monitoring will save you. As I've noted in my original post of this thread, the messages are written by the kernel so they will be in the syslog even if eventmond is not running. Also, I suspect my box would have been killed anyway regardless of whether eventmond was running or not ...

If you're shutting off env monitoring on the L1 (which is the case here) it won't report anything to the kernel. No-one said anything about turning off eventmond - this is more low level

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Wrote on the subject of Nekoware-mips3 at Aug. 1, 2006, 11:10 a.m...

Keyoke wrote:

Hello world !

What I'd really really love to see ported to MIPS3 is ScummVM 0.9.0 (I think this is the latest)! I've been awaiting this for years ! BTW, a small package without the embedded games would also be more practical, but I don't want to be asking too much ! It's already a veryveryvery good job.

I wasn't able to get ScummVM to compile using the supplied patches from the mips4 archive using MIPSpro 7.4.4/IRIX 6.5.22 so this one is a non-starter.

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The Gimp and Inkscape would also be nice to use on my I2 ! PhotoShop and CorelDraw 3 are a bit rusty by today's standards

These are really, really heavy apps for mips3 machines so I've avoided touching them - they're going to be close to unusable. I did build CinePaint which uses GTK 1.x toolkit and hence quite a bit more lightweight. Personally I still think Photoshop 3 rocks

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BTW, does neko-mips4 work on an Indy R5000 ? I'm always a bit lost with the status of this arch wrt compatibility.

Yes, that will work fine with standard mips4 Nekoware.

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Thanks a lot to all maintainers for the work ! All of that is going to put several of my machines to a new life !
As a side note, I'd really be happy to contribute some of my unused mips3 horsepower to the compilation effort, but I have no MIPSPro license

. If there is a way round that, just tell me...

MIPSpro is a must - we need to get every ounce of performance possible on this architecture.

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Wrote on the subject of Nekoware-mips3 at Aug. 1, 2006, 11:46 a.m...

Keyoke wrote:

I did have a look at the Gimp on the I2 (R4400 250 SI 384Mo iirc) a long time ago (can't even remember where I found it) and it was usable. Not with 700MB pictures but usable for web site imaging.

A long time ago GIMP didn't use GTK2 which is what kills the speed

CinePaint is fork of the GIMP 1.x code base and hence still pretty speedy. Try that one; if your experience is from a long time ago anyway that will fit the bill.

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Wrote on the subject of Nekoware-mips3 at Aug. 1, 2006, 4:37 p.m...

Easier to have a clean build environment this way; won't get any stray static linked mips4 libraries in the mix. Plus I just don't have spare mips4 machines anymore; just my Fuel (which I do mips4 development on; would have all sorts of conflicts while creating a mips3 distro there) and my O300 which I'd rather not waste cycles on.

Besides, it's not the compile time that's a problem - the Indigo R4K does just fine. It's wrestling with the compile problems that the patches just don't address - I don't have much time to rediscover solutions to the same issues the original package creators also went through (and should have added in the release notes/patches!)