[1456] in Release_7.7_team
Re: BioSym problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Thu Aug 13 15:37:35 1998
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>, wdc@MIT.EDU, mbarker@MIT.EDU,
ghudson@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 17:39:00 EDT."
<199808122139.RAA05193@kiko.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:37:27 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?).
I poked around the SGI support web site, and found a new patch, 3171, which
claims to fix some Newport (Indy XL) graphics problems in 6.2. I tried
downloading it and applying it on an R5000/XL, and BioSym (without the
workaround) was still broken in the same way.
Bob
