graeme@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Graeme Moffat) (03/11/91)
Well, after 8 weeks we've finally got 3003, and can use the hft on our 730. My bosses' initial impressions of the development environment are very favourable, much better (and faster) than the Silicon Graphics he last used. We have struck a major snag with the demos supplied by IBM, where a few of them hang the hft (we're remembering which ones not to try again *B^). My problem is getting it back to life, the only solution so far is to reboot the system. Specifically, /usr/lpp/X11/bin/X is clocking up vast amounts of cpu time, and sometimes the process can not even be killed, although all the other user processes can be. Regardless, the hft is not subsequently useable. I have reported a configuration error with the graphics IO card (gio) which appeared after applying 3003, the lighted function keys all light up when Xwindows starts and stay lit - could these be related? Any ideas on restoring the hft without rebooting would be appreciated. Also, could someone satisfy my curiosity on the '0xbadfca11' which appears as a function parameter when using xde? We are only just learning to use xde but this one's taken my fancy - it's implications are fairly obvious but what exactly does it tell us? (Fortran programs which ran on SGi machines are crashing with segmentation errors). Info is silent (as usual). Thanks -- Graeme Moffat g.moffat@aukuni.ac.nz \ Time wastes us all, Computer Aided Design Centre, Fax: +64-9-366-0702 / our bodies & our wits School of Engineering, Ph: +64-9-737-999 x8384 / But we waste time, University of Auckland, Private Bag, Auckland, NZ \ so time & we are quits