[1453] in Release_7.7_team
Re: BioSym problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed Aug 12 17:39:06 1998
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Cc: wdc@MIT.EDU, mbarker@MIT.EDU, ghudson@MIT.EDU, rbasch@MIT.EDU,
facdev@MIT.EDU, nschmidt@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU,
mvsilis@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Aug 1998 12:06:56 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:39:00 EDT
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> I'm not quite sure what that means internally and clearly somebody screwed
> up somewhere. Bill's thought that there might be something wrong with
> graphics support on IRIX 6.2 for non-XZ graphics boards is consistent with
> observations, and if so it is likely that this could bite us again- we
> may not be so fortunate to have such an easy fix in other cases. Can
> someone check this out with SGI (and yell at them if appropriate.. Bill?).
Can we get further technical information from the BioSym people about the
nature of the problem, and why the workaround apparently works? Is the
fact that the problem occurs on non-XZ graphics machines consistent
with their analysis of the problem? Until then, or unless we see other
application problems on non-XZ machines, I'd be a bit hesitant to call it
an SGI problem.
Bob
