[Pkg-blender-maintainers] blender-2.42 packaging patch.

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:06:09PM +0200, Antonio Ospite wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:28:12 +0200
> Wouter van Heyst <larstiq at larstiq.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:40:24PM +0200, Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> > > I'm going to collect two SGI machines this weekend, not very
> > > powerful, but perhaps enough to debug the issue.
> > 
> > Just a status update, I have both now (Indigo2 and Challenge S), but
> > getting them useful is a bit more work than I hoped. The I2 boots into
> > Irix 6.5 and greets me with an xdm prompt, attempts to login or get at
> > the arc/sash prompt have not been succesful so far.
> > 
> > Wouter van Heyst
> > 
> 
> I'm pretty sure that you tought that as well, but what about booting
> a linux version that can mount irix fs and get rid of the password?
> 
> Maybe another trick can be booting the irix kernel in single mode (I do
> not know if it asks for password, on a sparcstation I logged in simply
> booting in single user mode, no password was asked to me).

The problem is the monitor does not display anything before X runs. So I
have no 'bios' prompt to specify single user or such. I tried it blind
copying instructions, but that didn't work.

Wouter van Heyst