[comp.sys.sgi] startup of the 'twilight' background generator

sdempsey@UCSD.EDU (Steve Dempsey) (07/03/90)

On a 4D/25TG running 3.2.1, I get the following message deposited in
/usr/adm/SYSLOG whenever the Howard Look/Trevor Paquette/Reuel Nash
'twilight' background generator starts:

Jun 27 11:58:45 sdchemi2 grcond[1705]: CIO: SGI_set_rects: state not initialized

Has anyone else seen this?
I haven't noticed any problems other than this message, but us customers don't
get ANY info about 'grcond', so I'm not sure if I should worry about it or not.

I usually start the program in my private user.ps with code like:

    /RestartActions [ 
	    { (gamma 2.4) seqfork }         % 2.4 is a better guess than 1.7
	    { (4sight/night2) seqfork }
	    { (demochest) seqfork }
	    { (-p128,12 -r1000 -s40x80 -m66x132) forkwsh }   % My inital window
    ] def

but the same message will be generated when I start it from 'wsh'.
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paquette@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Trevor Paquette) (07/04/90)

In article <9007021822.AA29486@chem.chem.ucsd.edu>, sdempsey@UCSD.EDU (Steve Dempsey) writes:
> On a 4D/25TG running 3.2.1, I get the following message deposited in
> /usr/adm/SYSLOG whenever the Howard Look/Trevor Paquette/Reuel Nash
> 'twilight' background generator starts:
> 
> Jun 27 11:58:45 sdchemi2 grcond[1705]: CIO: SGI_set_rects: state not initialized
> 
> Has anyone else seen this?
 ... stuff deleted ...

   There is a bug in the version posted that will cause the Personal Iris to
 crash. It has to do with one routine not finishing drawing and another routine
 suddenly sending tokens to the gfx pipline before the other is done. 
   I am gogin to post a new version within the next few days that should fix
 this problem and includes some enhancements (shooting stars, a moon and
 'venus'.)
    Trev



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