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From: piplani@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Michael Piplani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: 4d 20-> 4d80gt porting bug
Message-ID: <8710@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 25 Aug 89 22:44:34 GMT
Reply-To: piplani@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Michael Piplani)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Lines: 17
Keywords: Intra 4D family port, 4d binary compatability

I wrote a simple graphics driver for a program of ours on a 4d/20- personal
iris.  Our program worked fine on all our test cases.  We shipped a binary 
to someone with a 4d/80 gt with alpha blending. When it starts up it
dies with this message: "Unable to map FIFO no such device"

I thought there was binary compatability across the 4d family.

Any ideas?  It just occured to me that we didn't use the shared 
graphics libraries (just linked with good ole' -Zg), could this be the
problem?

Thanks,

Michael Piplani
Cornell U.
internet: piplani@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
bitnet:   piplani@crnlimap.bitnet