I second Michael's situation. I am stuck with getting the old SGI system to work in this case - . So many thanks for the info Michael I will let you know if that works out.
Hi Bill I have not seen the Zalman for sale at the price you give of $270. I looked around a while ago for a good price but I think the cost was around $500. Best Gina On Jan 27, 2012, at 6:44 AM, Michael Strickler wrote: > As someone stuck maintaining an SGI for a user who resolutely refuses to > abandon Showcase or Ribbons for IRIX, I sympathize with those cases > where one simply has to get an old computer system to work. > > Anyway, we don't have the relevant library file in our freeware > directories either. However, the last version of UCSF Chimera to > support IRIX, version 1.3, supplies libgcc_s.so.1. We are using a > symbolic link libgcc_s.so --> libgcc_s.so.1 to run Coot 0.3.3 (not Coot > 0.0.33, which runs only on Babbage analytical engines). Chimera 1.3 is > still available from the UCSF Chimera download page: > > http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/download.html > > as long as you are able to agree to their non-commercial software > license agreement. > > Regards, > > -- > Michael Strickler, Ph.D. > Research Specialist > Richards Center for Structural Biology > Yale University > 260 Whitney Ave, 355C JWG > PO Box 208114 > New Haven, CT 06520-8114 Dear Gina: I think Coot 0.0.33 originated sometime early in the Nixon administration, and I finally parted with my SGIs a few years ago, so am not in a good position to advise. I seem vaguely to remember some non-canonical naming of the files. What happens if you make a symbolic link from the one you have to the one that is required? As I recall, coot on an SGI (at least on my R10000, which I think has a processor almost as fast as that in my generation A iPod touch) was impossibly slow. By contrast, I can run the very latest svn revision of coot in stereo on a $270 Zalman monitor attached to a $600 mac mini. I'm sorry this doesn't answer your question, but I think an ancient version of coot on an ancient computer will just be a world of hurt. -- Bill William G. Scott Professor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA 228 Sinsheimer Laboratories University of California at Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California 95064 USA NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.