Maya 6 and V6 - does it work???

[MattPayne]

Ive an Octane 250 with 1.2gig ram and a V6 - running at 1600x1280 @ 75hz and a frame buffer depth of 8

things all work ok, but in maya I get the following error...

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Warning: unable to get OpenGL visual with a depth buffer, trying without

all my solids are translucent and anyimageplanes appear over the top of the objects...

Ive tried lowering the resoultion and raising the frame buffer to 16, but still no joy...

[ka0s]

Have you tried the 6.1 update from Maya?
It's a free download, seems to fix a numerous amount of bugs in the Irix version

[MattPayne]

mmmmm.... well the version im running is 6.0.1 the next upgrade is 6.5 which im not a platinum member....

[ka0s]

Ah...
Well Maya 6.0.1 should work, at least it does on my Octane2 V10.
Have you set your Graphics to display 24 Bit?

There's a how-to somewhere in the forum, can remember where though...

[schleusel]

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Warning: unable to get OpenGL visual with a depth buffer, trying without

Maya tries to get a double buffered 32bpp (8/8/8/8 bit RGBA) visual with depth buffer but such a visual is not available if you run at 8 bytes/pixel framebuffer. Instead it uses one without depth buffer leading to that broken display. There is a workaround for that. Before you start Maya do:

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setenv MAYA_ODYSSEY_8888 no

This way it doesn't try to force a 32bpp visual and uses the largest available double buffered visual that still has a depth buffer. You'll get a working but somewhat dithered (16bpp) display.
The other way to fix it should be switching to 16 bytes/pixel framebuffer.. if that really doesn't work, that beats me..

[MattPayne]

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Warning: unable to get OpenGL visual with a depth buffer, trying without

Maya tries to get a double buffered 32bpp (8/8/8/8 bit RGBA) visual with depth buffer but such a visual is not available if you run at 8 bytes/pixel framebuffer. Instead it uses one without depth buffer leading to that broken display. There is a workaround for that. Before you start Maya do:

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setenv MAYA_ODYSSEY_8888 no

This way it doesn't try to force a 32bpp visual and uses the largest available double buffered visual that still has a depth buffer. You'll get a working but somewhat dithered (16bpp) display.
The other way to fix it should be switching to 16 bytes/pixel framebuffer.. if that really doesn't work, that beats me..

Thats fixed it thanks

but it will only work if i fire maya off from a console, is it possible to make it use that setting from a shortcut or a custom tool chest entry??

[rothers]

but it will only work if i fire maya off from a console, is it possible to make it use that setting from a shortcut or a custom tool chest entry??

Like any env var you need to to be active at login just add the above to the shell start-up . files i.e:

~/.profile & ~/.cshrc - to only apply per user
or
/etc/profile & /etc/cshrc - to apply to all users

[mark@OCTANE2]

hi guys, i've one problem with the refresh of menus in maya 6.01.

when i open maya, all work very well, but then, when i manage some windows, the menu with "file", edit, etc... doesn't appear well, as "fi.." "ed..".. as no refreshing.

now, i manage the 1280x1024 at100s. wiht octane2 v6

ideas ?

thanks

[GIJoe]

isn't that the vpro bug affecting v6 and v8?
i remember from reading this place that vpro cards have these refresh problems when operated at "wrong" resolutions.

one recommend resolution (and one i do not have a single issue with on v8) is 1280x1024_96, not sure about others.

[mark@OCTANE2]

thanks, but i've also the problem. i can run with every 1024x768 (ouch, my 21 gdm goes out of sync here...) or 1600 x1024.



anyone has this problem ?

i run IRIX 6.5.26, of october'04 on octane2, with v6. i'm afraid...

now i've pick up lightWave 5.6 .... but i want Maya! the version is 6.01, is the 6.5 bugless ?

thanks lot

[mark@OCTANE2]

i've resolved the problem.

i have re - installed the OS irix. (for other reason) and the problem has gone.

now maya 6.01 goes, ehm fly .... without problem.



i think that some patches from the originale 4 cds of freeware's sgi content has made some patch to graphics api.

[silicium]

when i open maya, all work very well, but then, when i manage some windows, the menu with "file", edit, etc... doesn't appear well, as "fi.." "ed..".. as no refreshing.

Same problem with Maya 6.5, IRIX 6.5.30m, happens not only on V6 output but also on remote display (Xming). It may not be related to V6. Menu bars are not refreshed: after selecting "Edit", the "File" is partly overwritten with background color, only "Fi" remains, and so on for all other text items. Maybe missing fonts and default font with wrong size ? Here are those installed:

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showprods | grep -i fonts
I  WorldView_french.sw.showcase_fonts  11/05/2007  French files for Showcase Additional Fonts
I  ghostscript          11/05/2007  Ghostscript-8.50 PostScript render engine with fonts
I  neko_fontconfig.sw.fonts  07/09/2009  additional URW fonts
I  neko_mplayer.sw.fonts  07/09/2009  OSD fonts
I  neko_t1lib           02/13/2009  T1Lib-5.1.0 bitmap generator from Adobe T1 fonts
I  x_eoe.sw.Artifex_fonts  11/05/2007  Artifex Type 1 Fonts
I  x_eoe.sw.Xfonts      11/05/2007  X11 Standard Fonts

[foetz]

you might also wanna try different gfx settings.
i can't remember any issues with a v6 but sometimes maya version 6 froze. was gone in maya6.5.

[Thomas W.]

http://download.autodesk.com/us/maya/qualcharts/maya_60_IRIX.html

Octane2 R10000/R12000 V6 is untested plattform

You may encounter the following issues:

* You may encounter depth sorting problems when you're painting in 3D (paint effects window) while in shaded mode, or the display may become garbled.
* Dynamic playback of uncached particles at 24fps may not be adequate and may result in gaps in emitted particle streams.
* You may encounter unexpected stability problems on systems with V6 graphics.

The cards may not have enough memory to obtain a visual with depth buffer at larger screen resolutions (e.g. 1920x1200), so objects may display incorrectly in shaded mode.

[duck]

The proper place to put environment variables for maya is in

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$HOME/maya/<version>/Maya.env


VPro V6 can't set the pixel clock to values between 106MHz and 193MHz and thus gives you a bit of an issue with useful video modes--1680x1050@anything is right in the range for
instance. I seem to recall from SGI:s website that the highest supported resolution is 1600x1200, and I haven't managed to get it higher (even as there's enough
framebuffer memory). My 1920x1200 display gets a munged image that is scaled somehow and sort of works... If anyone wants to donate a V10 I would find it a good home

(Edit: While it's true that 1680x1080 is right in the range, it's not what I meant *fix*)