Brian Corrie (bcorrie++at++cs.anu.edu.au)
Thu, 01 Oct 1998 14:38:30 +1000
I lied somewhat in my previous email (see below). When I rlogin to the machine
and run setmon, ircombine, etc., they don't hang, they eventually timeout and
give the error messages in my previous email. They do log anyone that is
logged in off of the console (kill the X server?) and they do not have any
effect on the video format.
Brian
>
>Hello pfAll,
>
>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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