On 07/11/2008, at 3:12 AM, Horwitz, Richard S wrote: > We have just now received 3 new PCs, which will run under Linux for > installation of AG. Originally we had planned to install Ubuntu on > the > machines for the XAP 4000, as I believe you have done. Now my Unix > people say they want to install Red Hat on them instead, so that we > have > support, etc. Is this supported? Have you or anyone else done this? > Is there some reason why you used Ubuntu rather than Red Hat.
Richard, Red Hat and similar, especially Fedora, are supported as far as the main AG toolkit is concerned. Do you know what version of Red Hat they want to install? There may be a problem with a RedHat/Fedora package for control of the XAP400 (this is a separate project to the AG toolkit itself). I'm not sure if a RedHat/Fedora package of this software exists; recall that it requires a specially modified version of WINE to run correctly - not all packagers want to make packages with special changes like this. I've cc'd Doug Kosovic (who does the AG packaging for Fedora systems) who can advise further about that. chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Horwitz, Richard S > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 4:07 PM > To: 'Christoph Willing' > Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Upgrading AG to Linux > > I don't know what your local time is, but I thank you for your prompt > and encouraging response. It's curious to me that Clear One could not > have provided the information you did. > I am not a linux person, so I will have to talk to my linux people to > see if we can do this. Is there a preferred version of linux we > should > be using? > PS I tried to play one of your videos on my PC from your URL and got > garbled > audio. > The videos referred to are all from 2005 and earlier. Perhaps it > could > be updated. Are the instructions and versions of stuff like > WINE up > to > date, more or less? > > Richard Horwitz > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christoph Willing [mailto:will...@vislab.uq.edu.au] > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 3:17 PM > To: Horwitz, Richard S > Cc: ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov > Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Upgrading AG to Linux > > > On 08/01/2008, at 5:04 AM, Horwitz, Richard S wrote: > >> We have an old version of AG that we want to update and move from >> windows to linux. >> We are currently running on 4 separate windows machines: display, >> audio, video, and control. >> >> We have a Clear One XAP 400 with G-ware software that I understand >> is not usable under linux. Is there some hardware/software >> solution that we might use? Can you point me to documentation that >> might help in this process? > > Richard, > > The XAP400 _is_ usable inder Linux. The trick is to run the G-ware > software with WINE - actually a version of WINE which has been > modified to correct its serial port operation. For complete details, > please see: > http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/research/accessgrid/software/xap400/ > gware_wine.html > > >> In the 2 machine setup, what is control coupled with? > > In a two machine setup, we run a display machine which also does the > audio, share apps and XAP400 control, then the second machine does > video capture (and, if this your only AG node, the second machine is > also good for running a multicast beacon). > > > chris > > > Christoph Willing +61 7 3365 8350 > QCIF Access Grid Manager > University of Queensland > > > Christoph Willing +617 3365 8350 QCIF Access Grid Manager University of Queensland
