Brian Corrie (bcorrie++at++cs.anu.edu.au)
Thu, 01 Oct 1998 14:33:30 +1000
I have managed to stuff up the video on our Onyx2 IR, dual pipe, running IRIX
6.5. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know as I am a newbie at
Onyx2/ircombine. I believe it all started when I tried to create a couple of
new video format files. Now, anytime I run ircombine, setmon, gfxinfo etc.
from the console I get logged out and the command appears to have no effect on
the video format being used. Actually, that isn't quite true, I can run
ircombine if I output my .cmb file to a file instead of making the destination
"active" or "eeprom". When I rlogin from another machine, set DISPLAY to :0.0,
and run the same commands they either hang (if no one is logged in) or they
terminate with an error message (and log off the person logged in). The error
message given for setmon is "X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or
server shutdown)." The error message for gfxinfo is:
Graphics board 0 is "KONAL" graphics.
Managed (":0.0") 1280x1024
Display has 2 channels
4 GEs (of 4), occmask = 0x0f
4MB external BEF ram, 32bit path
2 RM7 boards (of 2) 1/1/0/0
Texture Memory: 64MB/64MB/-/-
Large pixel depth
32K cmap
(Could not contact X server; thus, no XSGIvc information available)
Graphics board 1 is "KONAL" graphics.
Managed (":0.1") 1280x1024
Display has 2 channels
4 GEs (of 4), occmask = 0x0f
4MB external BEF ram, 32bit path
2 RM7 boards (of 2) 1/1/0/0
Texture Memory: 64MB/64MB/-/-
Medium pixel depth
32K cmap
(Could not contact X server; thus, no XSGIvc information available)
The stopgfx/startgfx pair appears to have no effect (other than logging me
out) and rebooting has not gotten us anywhere either.
Here is the whole story:
Our Onyx only came with a couple of reasonable stereo formats (no 1024x768_96s
for example) so I was trying to fill in some of the gaps. I was experimenting
with ircombine and xscreen. I was having trouble using ircombine to build a
1024x768_96s format (newbie blues...) so I used xscreen to download a
1024x768_96s to the EEPROM (DANGER...). No problems so far... I then did a
(/usr/gfx/stopgfx; /usr/gfx/startgfx) & as the manual says to make it take
effect. It then promptly logged me out, changed the video format slightly (it
still appears to be 1280x1024, but no stereo) and has left me unable to change
video modes any longer. I am totally stumped and no one here seems to have any
ideas. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!!
Thanks in advance,
Brian
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