[788] in Release_7.7_team
Workaround for SGI camera problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Dec 3 14:42:35 1996
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 14:40:01 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: sipb-staff@MIT.EDU, sipb-prospectives@MIT.EDU, cfyi@MIT.EDU
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
Right now, cameras don't work on most Athena R4600-based SGIs, and
they haven't since the last patch release. For whatever reason, this
didn't get much attention from development until the last few days. I
suspect we won't put out a patch release to fix this problem until
after finals, and some classes are using the cameras now. (We may
deal with the public cluster machines in the next few days, though; I
haven't talked to many people here about it yet.)
For now, you should be able to fix the problem on a machine-by-machine
basis by becoming root, running:
/etc/init.d/autoconfig -f
and then rebooting the machine.
I believe that you can tell if an SGI Indy is r4600-based or
r5000-based by looking at the position of the shiny decoration on the
front case. If it's next to the "Indy" logo and above the ridge, it's
r4600-based. If it's down below the ridge, it's r5000-based.
