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Re: ac3d problems on cluster machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Fri Mar 6 19:17:21 2009
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:11:30 -0500
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
I just tried this in my newly installed debathena-cluster system with
debathena-thirdparty installed. ac3d seemed to start instaneously.
This was in a VM on my 745.
Is this still a problem for you on your 745?
-Bill
On Feb 18, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Alex T Prengel wrote:
>
> I've run into another issue on an Athena 10 cluster machine (a
> 745)- when
> attempting to run a commercial 3d graphics application, AC3D, by
> doing:
>
> add ac3d
> ac3d
>
> The GUI opens very slowly- there are 4 panels that should be filled
> with
> rectangular grids- these fill up over a couple of seconds or so
> each but it
> should essentially be instantaneous. Pull-down menus appear frozen and
> unresponsive, though after multiple attempts they sometimes work
> again.
>
> The launch window prints the message:
>
> do_wait: drmWaitVBlank returned -1, IRQs don't seem to be working
> correctly.
> Try adjusting the vblank_mode configuration parameter.
>
> jdreed doesn't see this on a cluster installed GX260 or an HP. The
> problem also doesn't manifest on a workstation install (755, though
> still at Hardy, not Intrepid).
>
> Alex
