[14815] in Athena Bugs
frame grabber sw is busted on R4000 SGIs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Nov 10 15:57:07 1996
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 15:56:59 -0500
To: bugs@MIT.EDU, skunks@MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
The frame grabber on R4000 SGIs does not seem to work in the current
release. I discovered this on opus, an R4000 in the sipb office. I
verified the same brokenness on w20-575-100 and w20-575-105 [*].
I confirmed that it works fine on the R5000s steve-dallas and
w20-575-63.
I'm not sure when it broke.
Attempting to run video applications (e.g. capture)
all fail to open the video device.
SYSLOG notes that videod fails to start.
Running videod by hand confirms this -- it
complains about being unable to open /dev/vid.
/dev/vid exists and has the same major/minor device
as on the R5000s.
Running "hinv -c video" does not report IndyCam attached
like it does on the R5000s.
Thanks for looking into it.
--jhawk
[*] I ran capture on w20-575-107, and R4000, and the screen imaged a
few colored horizonal stripes across it, and the mouse pointer stopped
moving. I power cycled the monitor and waited a bit and the mouse
pointer moved again. I tried clicking on the partial capture window,
and the mouse pointer hung again. Ctrl-Shift-F12-KP/ would not restart
anything, and I had to resort to power cycling to get the ws back.
