From: Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Date: 02/12/2001 10:19:50
Notwithstanding Clive's post, you need to file a call with customer
support with this kind of thing. Please repeat your test without genlock
and then contact support.
Cheers,ANgus.
Ken Sewell wrote:
>
> I recently upgraded to IRIX 6.5.10 and Performer 2.4, and have begun to
> notice performer applications hanging quite regularly. Perfly comes up
> and displays the 3d text for about 2 or three frames (not even long
> enough to do the little zoom effect). Anyway, it just sets there, theres
> no unusual disk I/O and the process load looks normal. I ran the
> irsaudit tools on all of my pipes (2-IR3s in one module and 1-IR2 in the
> other) and all of them failed. Pipe 0 (IR3) failed with an error during
> the rmcrctri test.
> INFO RM1 IMP1 has 1 CRC miscompares
> Pipe 1 (IR3) and Pipe 2 (IR2) both failed with the same error during the
> video test (with about 78 errors per dg channel). Normally I would
> chalk this up to a hardware error alone, but here's the weird part(aside
> from all 3 failing at once): I have a second boot disk for my machine,
> with IRIX 6.5.10 and Performer 2.2, Pipes 1 and 2 both fail as before,
> however pipe 0 passes. The only real difference between my two
> bootdisks is that one is Perf 2.4 and one is 2.2. I don't see how
> performer could cause an IRSaudit failure. I thought that maybe
> performer 2.4 was leaving the graphics board in some unknown state, so I
> tried running IRSaudit just after a clean boot and got the same
> results. I do have my SGI rep working on this, but since Performer
> appears to be a variable in this, I thought I ask the list. Anyone out
> there experience this problem before? I have the full IRSaudit logs if
> anybody wants to examine them. Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
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