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- From: andreas@awstar.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Andreas Wierse)
- Subject: Re: Graphic-Board swap possible???
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.105710.25767@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
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- Organization: Visualization Group Comp.Center (RUS) U of Stuttgart, FRG
- References: <tl0pr*Pu0@video1.bs.open.de> <noboong@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 10:57:10 GMT
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- In article <noboong@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >In <tl0pr*Pu0@video1.bs.open.de> achim@video1.bs.open.de (Joachim Gothe) writes:
- >| we have 5 Indigo/Entry and we have the Animation-software "Softimage"
- >| on 3 of them.
- >| Next month we will get 3 Indigo-SX24 with Hardware Z-Buffer.
- >|
- >| A Softimage-licence only run on the computer, where it is installed.
- >| It ask for the internal machine-number.
- >|
- >| I now want to swap the motherboards of the machines where softimage runs
- >| to the machines with XS24-graphicboard or swap the graphicboards.
- >|
- >| Is it possible without problems, or must I change any settings in
- >| System-Software of Hardware.
- >
- >Changing the graphics board should not affect the system id info
- >(I assume they want the info from sysinfo or sysinfo -s).
-
- But as far as I remember, the concrete operating system that You have
- running with the entry graphics will not work with the XS24 because
- during installation of the os the type of graphics that exists in the
- machine is somehow worked into some of the os files.
- This means: if You swap the graphics boards You have to either swap
- the system disks too or install the operating system on the machines
- again.
-
- >--
- >Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- >because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- > Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
-
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