[kaigan]

In what is becoming increasingly common practice for me, I'm doing something dumb and definitely not originally supported with one of my SGIs!

Through a trade with KayBee, I've recently acquired an Octane Digital Video module. The dumb part is that through a small modification of my VPro carrier to route the flex cables, I've managed to install it alongside an ESI board and my V12. From the documentation I can find, SGI cautioned against installing the Digital Video option in a dual head system, and they certainly never would have intended it to be installed in a system along with a VPro. I'm assuming that heat or power draw were the primary concerns behind keeping it out of a dual head system. That said, it does physically work and the board shows up in the hinv of the system. Also, I do have the later Cherokee PSU in my machine. If power was the concern, I imagine that a dual-V12 machine would draw more power than this does.

However, I'm not yet able to get the Digital Video board to actually work in IRIX. When trying to load the Video Panel, I get the error message common to a machine without a video option, that "[t]his machine has no video daemon." I've read that it can be a bit tricky to get the board to operate under standard conditions, and I'm wondering if I just don't have the right software packages for the board installed.

Does anyone happen to know which software packages are required to get this board to run and where they're located?

Thank you!