> Brent Segelke wrote: > > > > Has anybody succeded in getting dials to work with IRIX6.3. I have a new > > O2 running IRIX6.3; I've installed eoe.sw.optinput and conected port 2 to > > the dials. I no longer get the message from O that there are no dials > > connected to the display so I assume O at least thinks there are dials out > > there but turning the dials has no effect. I assume I need a patch (as is > > the case with IRIX6.2) but don't know which one or where to find it--come > > somebody give me the missing peace to this puzzle? > > > > You need a secret cable with different pin configurations. SGI can't > tell you what the pin congiguration is but our local rep. was able to > send us a cable that finally allowed dials to work on O2's. We are now > making them up in-house. > > -- > Patrick J. Fleming, Ph.D. > (203) 432-8957 Voice > (203) 432-5688 Fax > fleming@csb.yale.edu > http://www.csb.yale.edu/people/core/pjf_hm.html I don't think the cable is THAT secret. I made a dialbox work on the O2 that was formerly attached to an ancient 4D/210, by fabricating a cable according to the specs given in 'man serial'. Kay -- Kay Diederichs (dikay@ruf.uni-freiburg.de and Kay.Diederichs@uni-konstanz.de) Universitaet Freiburg, Institut fuer Biophysik, Albertstr. 23 D-79104 Freiburg, Germany Tel. +49/(0)761/2035391 FAX +49/(0)761/2035016 and: Universitaet Konstanz, Fakultaet fuer Biologie, Postfach 5560, M656 D-78434 Konstanz, Germany Tel. +49/(0)7531/884049 FAX +49/(0)7531/883183
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