Thomas,
Thank you for your advice. I deleted the kernel-smp-bigmem package
from SGI/base/comps. And the SGI kernel installs properly. At least
after rebooting such message appears before "xdm" takes over
the login process.
Now, the next phase is (if possible) to enhance the Laptop to support
OpenGL development. By selecting individual packages the libraries
needed can/could be installed but my question is (for which I could not
find the answer from the manuals) if the various X-servers provided
support OpenGL protocol (naturally the hardware support may not exist)?
And according to "SGI/base/comps" the libraries seem to belong
to 230 Graphics.
>From the rpm-packages I found XFree86-NeoMagick-4.0-0.8.i386.rpm.
This should be the right one because the graphics chip in the
Laptop is Neomagic MagicGraph 128ZV (rev 2) (see also attachment
file produced by hinv from ProPack).
The installation of the X-server fails (the selected packages were
XFree86-NeoMagick-4.0-0.8.i386.rpm. together with packages it depends on
denoted by Package Dependencies screen) (see attached error file).
Maybe I'm now trying to do something that simply is not possible?
Maybe I should try to compile the OpenGL sample implementation instead?
Or try to build GLX with existing Xserver (XFree86-3.3)
from http://www.sgi.com/software/opensource/glx?
Or simply use Mesa instead?
Yours (once more)
-Jari Perttunen
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Thomas Duffy wrote:
> The workaround is to copy the iso image to a writable directory and delete
> the kernel-smp-bigmem package from SGI/base/comps.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> -tduffy
>
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Jari Perttunen wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't know if this is any use for you but I tried to
> > install Linux ProPack 1.3 on my Dell Laptop using INSTALL installer.
> > Attached in the file ProPackError.txt are the error
> > messages produced by the INSTALL installer.
> >
> > Hardware: Dell Latitude XPi CD
> > Operating System: RedHat Linux 6.2 (KDE desktop)
> >
> > Commands used:
> >
> > (Download ProPack1.3.iso from SGI download area)
> > root# mount -t iso9660 -o loop ProPack1.3.iso propack
> > root# cd propack
> > propack# ./INSTALL
> >
> > I can select the Language but the installation then
> > fails right after that.
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> >
> > ==============================
> > Jari Perttunen
> > Metla
> > email: jari.perttunen@xxxxxxxx
> > tel: +358-9-85705362
> > fax: +358-9-85705361
> > ==============================
> >
> > On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Thomas Duffy wrote:
> >
> > > There are some clashes and this is natural. For instance, we replace
> > > /etc/securetty so that it can handle the new devfs names for the
> > virtual
> > > consoles. But this file is owned by a package in RedHat. In our
> > > installer, (if you run INSTALL), it will handle the clashes for you.
> > >
> > > The ProPAck is meant to install on top of any system. It has a
> > superset
> > > of hardware support in RedHAT. That being said, we have not tested
> > every
> > > piece of hardware. For instance, the Buslogic SCSI driver has been
> > > reported to be broken in 1.3 (BTW, this is fixed in 1.4 as of the
> > ALPHA).
> > >
> > > THe 1.3 website is out of date and should be updated. We are no
> > longer in
> > > BETA for 1.3 and we released 1.3 over a month ago. In fact, we are in
> > the
> > > midst of working on releasing 1.4. I should really update the website
> > if
> > > I can get a chance.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your feedback and I encourage you to keep up the testing.
> > We
> > > can use as much help as we can get.
> > >
> > > later,
> > >
> > > -tduffy
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
SGI ProPack 1.3 for Linux (C) 2000 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Install System
Red Hat Linux (C) 1999 Red Hat, Inc.
Exception Occured
x x
x Traceback (innermost last): x
x File x
x "/opt/propack/SGI/instimage/usr/bin/anaconda", x
x line 237, in ? x
x intf.run(todo, test = test) x
x File "/opt/propack/SGI/sgi-packages/text.py", x
x line 1092, in run x
x rc = apply (step[1](), step[2]) x
x File "/opt/propack/SGI/sgi-packages/text.py", x
x line 624, in __call__ x
x r = todo.doInstall () x
x File "/opt/propack/SGI/sgi-packages/todo.py", x
x line 1478, in doInstall x
x self.selectPackage ('XFree86-' + x
x self.x.server) x
x File "/opt/propack/SGI/sgi-packages/todo.py", x
x line 1015, in selectPackage x
x self.hdList.packages[package].selected = 1 x
x KeyError: XFree86-SVGA x
x
x
Main memory size: 80 Mbytes
1 GenuineIntel Pentium MMX processor
1 vga+ graphics device
PCI bus devices:
Host bridge: PicoPower PT86C52x Vesuvius (rev 5).
ISA bridge: PicoPower PT80C524 Nile (rev 0).
VGA compatible controller: Neomagic MagicGraph 128ZV (rev 2).
IDE interface: CMD 643 (rev 0).
CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 1).
CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 1).
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