Setting up and testing MegaShapes

For hardware setup see the section called:

"Pixi <--> Pogle Network Wiring" in the Pixi Installation manual (page 15).

• Check the debug messages:
  When the Pixi is booted, open the "Debug" window and check that the line "Sonic OK" appears in the "K2 messages" area. This means the pixi motherboard is prepared for shapes.
• Check the MAC address in the "K2 messages" with the serial number of the Pogle Workstation. In the K2 window find the lines similar to "MAC *399" and "MAC OK" (where *399 is replaced with the serial number of your workstation). To find the serial no of the Pogle Workstation either (from v331) open the engineering debug panel and look in the bottom left or (<v331) open a unix shell on your SGI and type: /pogle/bin/wsfiles/crypto. The Pogle Workstation ID should be the same as the output given in the K2 debug (399 in this example).
• Check the firmware:
  In the "K2 messages" area you will find the firmware info for the Cobra and the PixCELL cards.
  • PixCELL must be >= V6
  • Cobra must be >= V10
  • The mother board firmware chip should be "X10" or "XL10" or higher.

Example for the K2 messages:

Start loading Pixi
Writing software to Pixi
Started Pixi
M
A Pixi v185
Sonic OK
A Slot 1 Primary
A Slot 2 Mega 1 v4
A Slot 4 Pixcell v6 filt N
A Slot 5 Cobra v10
A Slot 6 Pixcell v6 filt N
A Slot 7 Cobra v10
A 6 SDTV 3 HDTV / 2K
MAC *339
A Router v4
MAC ok
A Slot 1 Mega 1 P 24Hz 24Hz 24Hz
A Slot 2 Mega 1 S
A Slot 4 Pixcell 24Hz 24Hz 24Hz
A Slot 5 Cobra 24Hz 24Hz 24Hz
A Slot 6 Pixcell 24Hz 24Hz 24Hz
A Slot 7 Cobra 24Hz 24Hz 24Hz
A System running at 25Hz

Once connected, test it as follows:

• Login into a user and project and open a list. Make sure it's active!
• Then press these keys...
  • '2' to go to Mega 2
  • 'R' for the red channel
  • "Show" to show the isolation
  • "Expand" to select full HSI
• A red box should now be covering the screen.
• Now open Viewer and draw a circle or line on the image. The red box should disappear and be replaced by a red circle (or whatever has been drawn).
• If a red circle does not appear open the platinum 'Debug' window and draw the shape again. An 'x' should be printed in the K2 debug area. This means shape data has been received over the internet and recognised.
• If there are no 'u's in the debug window, check the LED on the front of the Pixi labelled "Host LAN". This should flash when a shape is sent down. If this isn't flashing then check connections, cables, termination, etc.

  Check the functions of the MegaShapes with an external Debug Monitor
  To connect an external terminal to the PiXi, please follow the instruction in the document: "Connecting a terminal to the Pogle"

• press "TAB" to get the menu.
• press "8" to get the sonic info. You will see a line similar to
  pkt rx=0 pkt tx=0 SGIADDR=FFFFFF
  Although the SGIADDR may be different.
  • rx shows the number of received commands
  • tx shows the number of sent commands
  • SGIADDR shows the MAC address of the SGI if the Pixi has received any data.
• If you send a shape from the O2 to the Pixi, the rx number will increment by 1.
• by sending a shape to the O2 you will get this message:

  ****************************************************************

  "0 1 ENDu "

  "Shape 180 x 177 size 1706 bytes blocks 1 ... 0 "

  ****************************************************************

• Possible error messages on the external terminal:
  • if the 50 Ohm resistor is not connected you will see:
    " Tx error 814A "
  • if the ethernet cable is not connected you will see:
    " Tx error 600 tx=0 SGIADDR=FFFFFF"
  • if the HUB is not working you will see:
    " Tx error 600 tx=0 SGIADDR=FFFFFF"