Re: ircombine on Onyx2

New Message Reply Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

Charlie H. Chang (a00chc00++at++nchc.gov.tw)
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:33:02 +0800

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I intend to let other users
to change the setup for their own sessions only.
So is there any way to do this without root privilege??

knoepfle++at++igd.fhg.de wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Apr 12, 4:43pm, Charlie H. Chang wrote:
> > Subject: ircombine on Onyx2
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am trying to use "ircombine" in my shell script to
> > start up my application in 1024x768 stereo mode.
> >
> > I tried the following commands:
> > (1) /usr/gfx/ircombine -destination active -global size=1024x768 \
> > -channel 0
> > format=1024x768_96s.cmb
> > This resulted with the message: "1024x768_96s.cmb" not found.
> > But there is the "1024x768_96s.cmb" file in
> > /usr/gfx/ucode/KONA/cmb
>
> I guess you have to specify a vfo and not a cmb file with format=
>
> > (2) /usr/gfx/ircombine -destination active -global size=1024x768 \
> > -channel 0 format=1024x768_96s.vfo
> >
> > This worked but the frame buffer size was still 1280x1024 instead
> > of
> > what I wanted "1024x768".
> you cannot change the managed area (global size) on the fly (destination
> active). You first have to write the cmb in the eeprom (-dest eeprom) and then
> reset the gfx.
>
> Something like this should work (as root):
>
> % /usr/gfx/ircombine -dest eeprom -source file
> /usr/gfx/ucode/KONA/dg4/cmb/1024x768_96s.cmb
>
> % (/usr/gfx/stopgfx;killall xdm;/usr/gfx/startgfx)&
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Christian
>
> --
> +--+--+-+-+-+-+------------------------------------------------------------+
> | | |_|_|_|_| Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics |
> |__|__|_|_|_|_| Dept.: Visualization and Virtual Reality |
> | | |_|_|_|_+---------------------------+--------------------------------+
> |__|__|_|_|_|_| Christian Knoepfle | Tel.: ++49-6151-155-285 |
> | _ _ | Rundeturmstr. 6 | Fax.: ++49-6151-155-196 |
> | | / _ | \ | 64283 Darmstadt | email: knoepfle++at++igd.fhg.de |
> | | \_/ |_/ | Germany | http://www.igd.fhg.de/ |
> +-------------+---------------------------+--------------------------------+

--
Charlie H. Chang                E-mail: a00chc00++at++nchc.gov.tw
Voice: 886-3-5776085x209        Fax: 886-3-5773620
Media & Visualization Lab,
National Center for High-performance Computing

New Message Reply Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b2 on Mon Apr 12 1999 - 02:37:25 PDT

This message has been cleansed for anti-spam protection. Replace '++at++' in any mail addresses with the '@' symbol.