Composer 5.0 Qualification Chart

last modified on Feb 19, 1999


Important Notices

This release is fully qualified and supported only under IRIX 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 and 6.5.

Composer 5.0 will NOT run under IRIX 5.3 at all.

Eight-bit graphics configurations are not supported.

Alias has gone through an extensive testing and qualification cycle and has worked with SGI to ensure that IRIX 6.2, 6.3, and 6.4 fully supports Composer 5.0

Whether you choose to run Composer 5.0 under IRIX 6.2, 6.3, or 6.4, it is crucial that operating system patches be applied in order to rectify known problems that will seriously impede the usability and/or stability of Composer 5.0. Please see the Qualification Chart for exact details.

Composer 5.0 is compiled N32.

All plug-ins must be recompiled and linked using the -n32 and -mips3 compiler flags. Plug-ins from Composer 4.5 or earlier will not work with Composer 5.0, and vice versa.

Minimum System Requirments

R4400+ processor with native OpenGL hardware, or R5000 Indy, with 128Mb RAM.


Obtaining new OS versions and patch sets

How To Obtain IRIX 6.2 (or higher)

Customers with valid SGI software support should have already received IRIX 6.2, which was sent out starting in May 1996. Customers who have not received IRIX 6.2 yet, in North America should call the Technical Assistance Center at 1-800-800-4744. International customers should call their local SGI office.

How To Obtain IRIX Patches

Qualification for this release was performed using the October 98 recommended patch sets from SGI. It is strongly recommended that any indicated patches be installed for the proper operation of the software.

Patch sets are patches that Silicon Graphics recommends you install on your system. These patches are considered crucial for successful system operation. Patch sets are updated every month and new patches are regularly added and replaced as required. It is possible for new workstations to have a newer patch set installed than what is listed here. In such a case it is not recommended that you remove that patch set and downgrade to what is listed here. It is unlikely that the new patchset will cause any problems but in the event that a patch related problem occurs you may have to contact SGI support at the above listed number.

Customers can gain access to patches through the worldwide web:

http://support.sgi.com

Customers without worldwide web access should call the Technical Assistance Center or their local SGI office as indicated above.


Qualification Chart (Proposed)

Composer 5.0 is qualified on the following platforms UNLESS stated otherwise. We recommend a minimum of 128MB RAM to run Composer 5.0 effectively.

Unless otherwise stated, the maximum resolution setting for the graphics card is 1280x1024.

If you have access to SGI's internal web pages, you can get more patchset information from here.

Hardware Qualified OS
(SGI IRIX)
Octane 6.4
O2 Any Configuration 6.3 [3]
Indigo2 R10000 Impact Graphics 6.2 [1]
Indigo2 R4400 Impact Graphics 6.2 [1]
Indigo2 Extreme, XZ 6.2, Not Recommended for UI [4]
Crimson Series Any Configuration Untested: 6.2 [1]
Onyx R4400, R10000 RealityEngine2 6.2 [1]
Onyx R4400, R10000 Inifite Reality 6.2 [1][2]
Power Onyx R8000 Untested: 6.2
Onyx2 Any Configuration 6.4
(Power) Challenge Series Any Configuration 6.2 [1]
Origin 200, 2000 6.4
Indy R5000 6.2 [1]

Composer 5.0 is qualified on IRIX 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5.2 ONLY.

Notes

The October 1998 Patch set from SGI is required for all machines.

[1] Patches 1272, and 1625 are recomended to fix problems when importing SGI movie files created with IRIX 5.3.

[2] Patch 3378 will crash Composer 5.0 use patch 3458 instead

[3] Patch 3280 will hang Composer when AVI files are used, use path 2275 instead

[4] Composer will run on these machines but with greatly reduced performance due to native GL hardware, see "Minimum System Requirements". Batch rendering is not affected.

NO LONGER SUPPORTED

Composer 5.0 IS NOT QUALIFIED on R2000 and R3000 based systems:

In addition, the following Graphics Systems ARE NOT QUALIFIED:


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