1/7/2005
====================================================================

Inventor is still slow. In windows, there is an alert notifying me
performance will be reduced since there is not a SLI connector.


1/4/2005
====================================================================

Reinstalled RHEL4 using HP-provided discs. Could not register
RHN. Applied HP's post-install disc. Edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf,
uncommenting Modeline named "1920x1200_60_single" and added modeline
name to list of available modes, restarted X.

Downloaded inventor from cvs to /usr/local/src.
Followed my instructions in my log:

Edit "libFL/ang/flfreetype.h" to add at the top:
#include <ft2build.h>
#include FT_FREETYPE_H
	 
Use the command g++ -E -dM empty.c to determine that "|| __x86_64__"
needs to be added to the two lines in
inventor/lib/database/include/machine.h:
"#if __i386__ || __ia64__".

up2date libjpeg-devel

Change "inventor/make/ivcommondefs" to say "X11LIBDIR = $(X11DIR)/lib64"
in the usingLinux section.

cd /usr/X11R6/lib64; ln -s libX11.so.6 libX11.so
ln -s libGLU.so.1 libGLU.so
up2date openmotif-devel

Fix /usr/X11R6/lib64/libGL.so and /usr/lib64/libGL.so symbolic links:

cd /usr/X11R6/lib64; rm libGL.so; ln -s /usr/lib64/libGL.so libGl.so
cd /usr/lib64; rm libGL.so; ln -s libGL.so.1 libGL.so

Install inventor:

tcsh
setenv IVROOT /
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/lib
setenv FREETYPE 1
gmake install -j8

12/28/2005
====================================================================

beason@blob:~> ivperf -w 1280,1024 megaMesh.bin.iv

Reading graph from megaMesh.bin.iv
Number of frames: 60
Window size: 1280 x 1024 pixels

Number of nodes in scene graph:     4
Number of triangles in scene graph: 1996002
Number of lines in scene graph:     0
Number of points in scene graph:    0

                          seconds/frame   frames/second
As-Is rendering:             0.037           26.73
No Clear:                    0.036           27.93
No Materials:                0.036           27.68
No Transforms:               0.036           27.72
No Fills:                    0.139            7.18
			
Time taken by vertex transformations:        0.138 seconds/frame
Time taken to traverse scene graph:         -0.013 seconds/frame

			

11/30/2005
====================================================================

Fixed /floor autofs problem by styling autofs maps:

# (This is already in file: /etc/auto.master)
/floor /etc/amdmaps/auto_floor

# File: /etc/amdmaps/auto_floor
rivera	-fstype=autofs  file:/etc/amdmaps/auto_rivera
visnas1 -fstype=autofs	file:/etc/amdmaps/auto_visnas1

# File: /etc/amdmaps/auto_rivera
a	-rw,intr,nosuid,grpid,nolock	rivera.csit.fsu.edu:/rivera/a
b	-rw,intr,nosuid,grpid,nolock	rivera.csit.fsu.edu:/rivera/b
c	-rw,intr,nosuid,grpid,nolock	rivera.csit.fsu.edu:/rivera/c
d	-rw,intr,nosuid,grpid,nolock	rivera.csit.fsu.edu:/rivera/d
e	-rw,intr,nosuid,grpid,nolock	rivera.csit.fsu.edu:/rivera/e
f	-rw,intr,nosuid,grpid,nolock	rivera.csit.fsu.edu:/rivera/f

# File: /etc/amdmaps/auto_visnas1
D1	-rw,intr,nosuid,grpid,nolock	visnas1.csit.fsu.edu:/D1/home
D2	-rw,intr,nosuid,grpid,nolock	visnas1.csit.fsu.edu:/D2/home



11/13/2005
====================================================================

Benchmarked my ray tracer, pane, on the xw9300.

Machine  Time (s)  Speed up
xw9300    917.42     1.9
Dell     1748.08     1.0
SGI      1979.09     0.88

http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~beason/log/11-13/opt1.png
http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~beason/log/11-13/opt2.png



10/31/2005
====================================================================
Turned acpi=off in grub.conf. This allowed me to boot my custom
2.6.9-11EL kernel and install the nvidia drivers.

Benchmarked xw9300 vs. Dell Precision 650 (Dual 3.0 GHz Xeon) using:

ivperf -f 200 -w 1280,1024 megaMesh.bin.iv

Number of frames: 200
Window size: 1280 x 1024 pixels

Number of nodes in scene graph:     4
Number of triangles in scene graph: 1996002
Number of lines in scene graph:     0
Number of points in scene graph:    0


Dell
========
                         seconds/frame   frames/second
As-Is rendering:             0.044           22.76
No Clear:                    0.068           14.79
No Materials:                0.044           22.78
No Transforms:               0.044           22.77
No Fills:                    0.097           10.26

Time taken by vertex transformations:        0.097 seconds/frame
Time taken to traverse scene graph:          0.000 seconds/frame

HP
========
                         seconds/frame   frames/second
As-Is rendering:             0.036           27.75
No Clear:                    0.036           27.95
No Materials:                0.036           27.67
No Transforms:               0.036           27.62
No Fills:                    0.136            7.38

Time taken by vertex transformations:        0.135 seconds/frame
Time taken to traverse scene graph:         -0.007 seconds/frame






10/11/2005
====================================================================

I tried to install the 2.6.9-11 kernel by installing the hp provided
src rpm in:
/RedHat/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.src.rpm

Installing the rpm with "rpm -ivh". I then cd'd to
/usr/src/redhat/SPECS,
did rpmbuild -bp kernel, then cd'd to
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9/,
and did cp configs/kernel-2.6.9-x86_64-smp.config .config,
edited the Makefile to have EXTRAVERSION = -11.ELsmp,
then did a
make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install && make install.
Then I rebooted and chose '2.6.9-11ELsmp' in grub,
which resulted in a Kernel Panic.

I'm not sure what to do now.



10/10/2005
====================================================================

Reinstalled RHEL4 WS
Inserted HP driver cd from HP_drivercd_rhel4u1.tgz on "Additional CD's" screen.
Recieved error with notice of full details in /root/hp-install.log

hp-install.log:

Mon Oct 10 17:15:52 EDT 2005
HP Driver CD install log for RHEL 4 Update 1

KERNEL SOURCE ERROR
A kernel other than 2.6.9-11.EL(ELsmp) has been detected
or your installed kernel does not have it's kernel-devel installed
Review the READ ME on the HP Driver Cd for possible solutions to resolve
this error


Checking the README shows this at the top:

HP Workstation Driver CD for use with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux/x86 WS 3 (Taroon)

...


# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 2)

# uname -a
Linux blob 2.6.9-16.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Aug 15 20:38:46 EDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# rpm -qa |grep kernel
kernel-smp-2.6.9-16.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-16.EL
kernel-2.6.9-16.EL
kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.69
kernel-devel-2.6.9-16.EL


I installed the src rpm on the HP cd in /RedHat/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.src.rpm
Then I ran the script /HP/scripts/install.sh which says:

       package hpsetup-3.5-rhel3 is already installed
               package hpdoc-14-rhel3 is already installed
	       **Not matching kernel....exit 1
	       .//drivers.sh: line 36: lspci: command not found
	               file /usr/lib64/libglut.so.3 from install of
glut-3.7-12 conflicts with file from package freeglut-2.2.0-14
        package glut-devel-3.7-12 is already installed
	.//drivers.sh: line 92: dmidecode: command not found


So I guess I'm missing module-init-tools, but I don't see this inside
system-config-packages. Do I have to download it from redhat? Will that even
work? Why is it installing an rpm with rhel3 in the name when I am installing
RHEL4? This cd is from the HP website and was called: HP_drivercd_rhel4u1.tgz.

Someone please help...







Log for previous tries
====================================================================

Knoppix - no SCSI raid support or 
Fedora - no dual processor support (kernel panic), must recompile kernel
Mandrake - Doesn't see SCSI
CentOS - Kernel panic on install disc
RHEL - Installer has unhandled exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/build/603036-x68_64/install/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py, line
1074, in handleRenderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
...
SystemError, vgcreate failed for VolGroup00

Tried again, without using LVM
Installed fine

Installed nvidia drivers off of hp's website
complained about kernel version
installed kernel-devel off of cd image from hp's website


monitor settings for hp 2335 missing from supplied file:
/opt/hp/graphics/nvidia/example_configs/HP-monitor-settings.html
Used settings found on google.com, monitor works now


Inventor installed
ivview crashed with large mesh - maybe because of wrong kernel?

Tried to install version of kernel the drivers want from HP cd
Kernel panic no matter what

rpm --rebuild (HP cd) SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.src.rpm
yields these errors:

  Building modules, stage 2.
  + make buildcheck
  perl
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9/scripts/reference_discarded. pl
Error: ./fs/hugetlbfs/built-in.o .debug_loc refers to 000000000000294e
R_X86_64_ 64       .exit.text
Error: ./drivers/char/agp/amd64-agp.o .debug_loc refers to 00000000000019e6
R_X8 6_64_64       .exit.text
Error: ./drivers/char/raw.o .debug_loc refers to 0000000000000a17
R_X86_64_64     .exit.text
Error: ./drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.o .debug_loc refers to
00000000000007 fc R_X86_64_64       .exit.text

...(several more such errors)...

make: *** [buildcheck] Error 57
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.38974 (%build)


RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.38974 (%build)