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16:25, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs uploaded File:Jurassic Park EarthWatch.jpg
16:22, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:Nintendo 64.png
16:22, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs uploaded File:Nintendo 64.png
16:21, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page ESP (Created page with " '''E'''mbedded '''S'''upport '''P'''artners (ESP) is a system service that calls home with data to provide assistance with support issues. With the demise of Silicon Graphics it has become a major security issue. This page documents ESP for historical reasons. == Disabling ESP == Simply run <code>chkconfig esp off</code> and <code>/etc/killall esp</code> to terminate it immediately. == Extreme slow down on log in == ESP also works in conjunction with configmond,...") Tag: Visual edit
16:11, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page NIS (Created page with "'''Network Information Services''', also called '''Yellow Pages''' or '''yp''', is supported on IRIX. Similar to Active Directory or LDAP it provides indexing of hostnames and DNS configuration synchronization. == Transfer NIS Master In IRIX == Tar up the directory with the NIS flat files live in and copy it over to the new master. <pre> 8:12am dragon /etc/yp %ls aliases local.make.script.pre-6.5.x auto.direct mac auto.home...") Tag: Visual edit
16:02, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Nekochan.net (Created page with "Nekochan.net was a website registered on January 21st, 2000 according to public WHOIS. It was founded by Nekonoko, real name Peter Plank, who started it for the purpose of discussing SGI software and hardware. In 2003, the Nekochan forums were started and Nekochan.net became an intensely popular icon in the Silicon Graphics community as the main hub for non-corporate users of SGI hardware and software. It was shut down May 21st, 2018 under alleged GDPR compliance issues....") Tag: Visual edit
15:59, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page LTO Drive Configuration (Created page with "HP Ultrium 1 / LTO-1: { DATTAPE, TPDAT, 2, 7, "HP", "Ultrium", LTO-1: , 0, 0, {0}, MTCAN_BSF|MTCAN_BSR|MTCAN_APPEND|MTCAN_COMPRESS|MTCAN_PREV| MTCAN_SYNC|MTCAN_SPEOD|MTCAN_CHKRDY|MTCAN_VAR|MTCAN_SETSZ| MTCAN_SILI|MTCAN_SEEK|MTCAN_CHTYPEANY, minimum delay on i/o is 4 minutes, because when a retry is <nowiki>*</nowiki> performed, the drive retries a number of times, and then <nowiki>*</nowiki> rewinds to BOT, repositions, and tries again.: 40, 5*60, 20*...") Tag: Visual edit
15:58, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page UltimateVision (Created page with "'''UltimateVision''' was the final high-end graphics architecture that was SGI branded, with ATi (now AMD) providing the chipsets for the Onyx4 and Prism workstations. == Information == Introduced in 2006, UltimateVision was offered as the graphics option for SGI’s Prism and Onyx4 visualization systems,. The UltimateVision subsystem was designed to scale from a single high-performance graphics pipe to multi-pipe configurations for visualization walls, immersi...") Tag: Visual edit
15:50, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:Rackmount Tezro.jpg
15:50, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs uploaded File:Rackmount Tezro.jpg
15:49, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:G-Brick Origin.jpg
15:49, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs uploaded File:G-Brick Origin.jpg
15:48, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:Origin350 .jpg
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15:47, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Sgidoom (Created page with "'''sgidoom''' was a demo of Doom on IRIX included with many IRIX demo CDs in the 1990s. == Specifications == It was designed to run on IRIX 5.3 and later. IRIX Doom was originally based on the unreleased DOS version 1.5, though later updates were based on versions 1.6 and 1.8. No effort was made to take advantage of SGI's advanced graphics hardware, and like many other ports the game was rendered entirely in software. sgidoom lacks sound, but includes sndserver fo...") Tag: Visual edit
15:41, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:Origin 2000 Deskside.jpg
15:41, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs uploaded File:Origin 2000 Deskside.jpg
15:40, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:Onyx CB HK.jpg
15:40, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs uploaded File:Onyx CB HK.jpg
15:38, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page IRIX Install Using NetBSD Host (Created page with "This article describes installation of IRIX on an Indy, but it should work with slight modifications if applied to other systems. Refer to other installation guides for variance. This guide should work with a NetBSD machine of any architecture. It has been tested on a Pentium II, Raspberry Pi, and a Power Macintosh. === Setup of the Host Server === First, install NetBSD onto the host server machine. Great guides already exist for this, so please refer to the NetBSD...") Tag: Visual edit
15:37, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page IRIX Install Using IRIX Host (Created page with "This article describes the installation of IRIX 6.5.30 on an SGI Fuel. The installation is performed over a local network (LAN), using a SGI Indy workstation as installation server. The main focus of this article is to demonstrate the feature of driving inst using a pre-written command file instead of manually performing all needed software selection steps. Although the example specifically describes an IRIX 6.5.30 installation, the demonstrated methods will work with an...") Tag: Visual edit
15:35, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page MAME (Created page with "Thanks to the MAME developers, the following emulated hardware/software combinations have at least some functionality. {| class="wikitable" | |OS version |Indy | colspan="3" |Indigo 2 |- | |IRIX 5.3.x |MAME 0.209+ | colspan="3" |MAME 0.210+ |- | |IRIX 6.2.x |MAME 0.210+ | colspan="3" |MAME 0.210+ |- | |IRIX 6.5.22 |MAME 0.210+ | colspan="3" |MAME 0.210+ |- | |IRIX 6.5.30 |N/A | colspan="3" |N/A |} 6.5.30 is not supported on the Indy or Indigo2 hardware, that doesn't chan...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
15:30, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:SGI O2+ Angle.png
15:30, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs uploaded File:SGI O2+ Angle.png
15:29, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:SGI O2+ Front View.png
15:29, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs uploaded File:SGI O2+ Front View.png
15:28, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:SGI O2 Playing sgidoom.png
15:28, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs uploaded File:SGI O2 Playing sgidoom.png
15:25, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Itanium (Created page with "'''Itanium''', also known as '''IA-64''' and '''IPF (Itanium Processor Family)''' is an ISA and family of high performance CPUs created as a joint Hewlett Packard and Intel project starting in the early 1990s. It is notable for SGI's later usage of the Itanium 2 architecture for the Altix 350 and later systems. == History of Itanium == The Itanium project began in the late 1980s at Hewlett-Packard’s Fort Collins Design Center in Colorado. At the time, HP was expl...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
14:43, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:SGI Prism Rack.png
14:43, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs uploaded File:SGI Prism Rack.png
14:41, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:SGI Prism Front.jpg
14:41, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs uploaded File:SGI Prism Front.jpg
14:28, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:I2 Teal Rear.jpg
14:28, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs uploaded File:I2 Teal Rear.jpg
14:27, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:Indigo2 Impact Front.jpg
14:27, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs uploaded File:Indigo2 Impact Front.jpg
14:25, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:Indigo2 Teal Front.jpg
14:25, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs uploaded File:Indigo2 Teal Front.jpg
06:41, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:Octane 1 Frontal.jpg
06:40, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs uploaded File:Octane 1 Frontal.jpg
06:36, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:Octane2 Frontal.jpg (SGI Octane2 frontal image.)
06:36, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs uploaded File:Octane2 Frontal.jpg (SGI Octane2 frontal image.)
04:59, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Flexlm-License (Created page with "Note: This is a HaxForce license found on an old usenet mailing list years ago. # # FLEXlm license file # ## FLEXlm License File FLMLF 1.0 ## Filename:/var/flexlm/license.dat FEATURE TV/Base toolworks 3.800 1-jan-0 0 1C466A88CDF55FAD72F6 HOSTID=ANY \ ISSUER="Hax Force, Inc." FEATURE TV/AnyChip-AnyOS toolworks 3.800 1-jan-0 0 ACB60AF81EC176CB3072 \ HOSTID=ANY ISSUER="Hax Force, Inc." FEATURE TV/AnyChip-AnyOS/MP/Big toolworks 3.800 1-jan-0 0 3...") Tag: Visual edit
04:58, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page ARCS (Created page with "ARCS is the name for the firmware used by later SGI machines starting with the IRIS Indigo to boot an IRIX kernel and store important NVRAM variables. It's also commonly called in common parlance the '''PROM''' by users, though this generally refers to the physical chip storing ARCS. === Capabilities === ARCS is a fully graphical firmware that has basic understanding of TCP/IP (though it can't ping/trace and has no understanding of routes. It only knows TFTP and RSH...") Tag: Visual edit
04:57, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page IPFilter (Created page with "IRIX does have an IPFilter port for people looking to use firewalls on their machines. This page details several uses of it. === Setup === IPFilter is an established open source software package written and maintained by Darren Reed under a modified BSD style license. Source code is available from the project's homepage. It claims to have been tested and run under IRIX 6.2<nowiki/>and IRIX 6.5 (loadable kernel module), however, there have reportedly been problem...") Tag: Visual edit
04:56, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Inst (Created page with "inst is the package and installation utility, appearing in GL2-3.x and used through IRIX 6.5 and is supplemented by swmgr, an graphical frontend (the relationship is similar to aptitude and synaptic) to the command line. inst is used for installing and uninstalling programs, applying patches and more. === General Operations === inst can be started from within IRIX by typing "inst" as root to access the full menu, but '''it can be run as a user, but it will be r...") Tag: Visual edit
04:55, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Gentoo Prefix-Portage for IRIX (Created page with " On Nekochan in 2009, user Stuart posted that he had gotten Gentoo Prefix, a type of Portage port to other systems, working on IRIX. This article is an archive/documentation of that effort. Due to the 12-year gap from the time of writing this adaptation of his methods, this article is posted without warranty or guarantees. === History === Stuart posted on his initial post that he had quit working on pkgsrc (a NetBSD project) for the following reasons: * The build proce...") Tag: Visual edit
04:54, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Add Images to Visual Login (Created page with "Use chkconfig to make sure that visuallogin is set to on and noiconlogin to off. The icons (SGI RGB format, at least 100x100 pixels) can be placed in the following locations: /$HOME/.icons/login.icon /usr/lib/faces/$USER /usr/local/lib/faces/$USER $USER is the login name of the user, $HOME the home directory. Remember, no file extension is needed after the name of the image. $USER is not a directory, but an actual rgb image file with the name of the account that it...") Tag: Visual edit
04:53, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Network Setup (Created page with "IRIX unlike modern Linux distros, Windows and macOS necessitates some level of manual configuration. Some of the tasks here can be accomplished via the GUI, but it is valuable to understand the networking stack in IRIX. === Major Components === IRIX's network stack consists of several components: * inetd - This not only controls the major network services, like telnet and rlogind, it also controls the network and updates to the network necessitate restarts of inetd. *...") Tag: Visual edit