Changeset 1265 for trunk/packages

Timestamp:

Jan 7, 2009, 10:57:07 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

gah

Message:

Added check for nVidia video cards when determining the number of video
cards on a render server. Also, added fix to use hostname as the base address
for broadcasting.

File:

• trunk/packages/vizservers/start_viz.sh.in (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/packages/vizservers/start_viz.sh.in

@@ -7 +7 @@
 set -e
 
-broadcast="192.168.200.255"
+# Use the IP address of this host to construct a broadcast address.  This
+# feature will be hopefully going away very soon.
+
+broadcast=`hostname -i | sed 's/\.[0-9]* $/.255'`
+
 render_dir="@prefix@"
 nanoscale_port=2000
@@ -25 +29 @@
 export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH PYMOL_PATH
 
-nvideo=`lspci | fgrep VGA | wc -l`
+# Determine the number of video cards we have.  The new render server
+# motherboards have the useless XGI Volaria onboard video controllers (no 3D
+# capabilities) so we have to make sure we count only the nVidia cards.
+
+nvideo=`lspci | fgrep VGA | fgrep nVidia | wc -l`
+
 nanoscale="${dir}/bin/nanoscale -x ${nvideo} -b $nanoscale_port -s $broadcast"
 nanovis="${dir}/bin/nanovis -p ${dir}/lib/shaders:${dir}/lib/resources"