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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Question About 4.0.5 SGI Demos
- Message-ID: <u4ttdi8@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 22:06:18 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.164814.18136@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- In <1992Dec24.164814.18136@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> ttbob@raphael.lerc.nasa.gov (Robert Orszycki) writes:
-
- | When I load eoe2.sw.demos in IRIX 4.0.5, I notice a few differences.
- |
- | Loaded to an Indigo, GTX, VGX, the following files for "flight" exist:
- |
- | l--------- 1 root sys 21 Sep 17 13:47 dog@ -> /usr/demos/bin/fli
- | -rwxr-xr-x 1 demos demos 299184 Sep 17 13:47 flight*
- | -rwxr-xr-x 1 demos demos 405680 Sep 17 13:47 flight_8bit*
- | l--------- 1 root sys 21 Sep 17 13:47 shadow@ -> /usr/demos/bin/
- |
- | On a Personal IRIX 4D/35 (all three I loaded it to) only the following appears:
- | -rwxr-xr-x 1 demos demos 405680 Sep 17 13:47 flight_8bit*
- |
- | Is flight not supported on the PI?
-
- Yes, but the flight (without the suffix) is the newer version with
- texture mapping, etc. as I recall, so you should use flight_8bit,
- from what I remember. Perhaps Rob will comment further on this.
-
- | If so, are there other demos besides "flight" that are not loaded by 4.0.5
- | on the PI?
-
- There are a large number of demos that are machine tagged, either because
- they require specific features to run, or it was decided that they ran
- too slow/poorly on other graphics.
-
- If you have the CD-ROM, try mounting it, cd'ing to /mountpt/dist, and
- running this command:
- egrep 'usr/demos.*GFXBOARD' *.idb
- to see the machine tagged files. Note that some may be installed
- if any of several graphics boards are present.
-
- | Here is output from hinv on the PI.
- | 1 36 MHZ IP12 Processor
- | FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 4.0
- | CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.0
-
- For future reference, most people at SGI (in engineering, anyway)
- don't call this a PI, even though it is in the same plastics. That
- term is usually used for the 4D/20 or 25. Sales and marketing
- types and literature may not agree with this, of course ;)
-
- If you had the Elan or XS graphics I seem to recall the other version
- of flight gets installed (the 4D/30 and 35 do support these newer
- graphics boards, since they are architecturally almost identical to
- the Indigo).
- --
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