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1_1_1_DesktopSpecialEdition

Introduction
Installation Information
Known Problems and Workarounds
Documentation Errors

Introduction

1. Introduction

The Desktop Special Edition release consists of a large
number of software products. Your system may have the
Desktop Special Edition software pre-installed on the hard
disk (see section 2.2) or you may be installing this
software from the CD (see sections 2.3 or 2.4).

Note: Packaged with your software is a separate sheet that
contains the Software License Agreement. This
software is provided to you solely under the terms
and conditions of the Software License Agreement.
Please take a few moments to review the Agreement.

This document contains the following chapters:

1. Introduction

2. Installation Information

3. Known Problems and Workarounds

4. Documentation Errors

1.1 Release Identification Information

Following is the release identification information for
Desktop Special Edition:

Software Product Desktop Special
Edition

Version 1.1
System Software Requirements IRIX 5.3 or 6.1

Hardware Platforms Supported Indigo w. R4XXX CPU,
Indy R4000 through
R5000, Indigo2,
Power Indigo2

1.2 Desktop Special Edition Products

The Desktop Special Edition consists of the following
software products:

______________________________________________________________________
P r o d u c t ____________V e r s i o n ___D e s c r i p t i o n ______________________________
DesktopSpecialEd 1.1.1 Desktop Special Edition README
InPerson 2.1 InPerson Desktop Conferencing
PeoplePages 1.1 PeoplePages - The Indigo Magic Phonebook
SoftWindows 2.0 Insignia SoftWindows
acrobat 1.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader
adminmagic 1.2 ISDN/PPP Setup
annotator 1.0 IRIS Annotator
dmedia_eoe 5.5 IRIS Digital Media Execution Environment
dmedia_tools 5.5 IRIS Digital Media Tools
dynaweb 1.0 IRIS Insight Dynaweb
il_eoe 2.5 ImageVision Library Execution Environment
imgtools 2.3 ImageVision Tools
insight 2.3.2 IRIS InSight Viewer
inventor_eoe 2.1.1 Inventor Execution Environment
license_eoe 1.0 License Tools
media_warehouse 1.0 MediaWarehouse Application
mmail 3.2.2 MediaMail
netls_nodelock 1.1 NetLS Nodelock Tools
netscape 1.12IS Netscape Navigator Client
outbox 1.1 Outbox Environment
pcnfsd 2.0.1 PC-NFS Server Components
sgiperl 1.0 Perl Language Environment
showcase 3.3.3 IRIS Showcase
webmagic 2.0.1 WebMagic Web Authoring Environment
webserver 1.4.1 WWW HTTP/1.0 Server
webspace 1.1 Webspace VRML Web Navigator
webspace_author 1.0 Webspace VRML Authoring Environment
whatsnew 1.1.1 What's New
xlators_3d 1.1.1 3D File Translators
______________________________________________________________________
TABLE 1. Desktop Special Edition Products

1.3 Online Release Notes

After you install the online release notes for a product
(the relnotes subsystem), you can view the release notes on
your screen.

Note: You can read the online release notes for most
products before installing the software. Refer to
the booklet in your CD-ROM case for more information.

If you have a graphics system, select ``Release Notes'' from
the Help submenu of the Toolchest. This displays the
grelnotes(1) graphical browser for the online release notes.

Refer to the grelnotes(1) man page for information on
options to this command.

If you do not have a graphics system, you can use the
relnotes command. Refer to the relnotes(1) man page for
accessing the online release notes.

1.4 Product Support

Silicon Graphics, Inc., provides a comprehensive product
support maintenance program for its products.

Desktop Special Edition software is available to any Silicon
Graphics customer who has a valid software support contract
and specifies a CD software media update option. To get this
software CD, customers simply contact their local Silicon
Graphics representative and ask to enter into a support
contract, like Full or Basic. Then, specify software
updates by CD. A Desktop Special Edition CD will be shipped
to the software update contact. Allow 2 to 4 weeks for
delivery.

If you would like to purchase support, contact your local
Silicon Graphics sales office. If you are in the U.S. or
Canada and would like assistance with your Silicon
Graphics-supported products, contact the Technical
Assistance Center at (800)800-4SGI. If you are outside
these areas and require assistance, contact the Silicon
Graphics subsidiary or authorized distributor in your
country.

2. Installation Information

This chapter lists supplemental information to the IRIS
Software Installation Guide. The information listed here is
product- and release-specific; use it with the Installation
Guide to install this product.

2.1 General Installation Information

If you are installing this software from the Desktop Special
Edition CD you may not wish to install all the products.
There are three methods you can use to help determine what
software products you wish to install. You can insert the
CD and read the release notes for each product (refer to the
CD installation booklet included with the CD for information
on how to do this). A second method is to insert the CD,
double-click on the icon and click "Custom Installation" in
the Software Manager application to browse the products on
the CD. For more complete information we recommend that you
first install only the WhatsNew product and the
1_1_DesktopSpecialEdition release notes. The WhatsNew
product will display extensive information about all the
products on the Desktop Special Edition CD the first time
you log into your system.

If you already have a World Wide Web Server installed on
your system, we advise you to read through the release notes
for the OutBox product before you install your Desktop
Special Edition software. If you are running early releases
of the Netscape Communications Server (prior to version
1.12), Silicon Graphics recommends that you upgrade to
version 1.12. It is important to read the release notes for
version 1.12 prior to installing it.

If you are a software developer and have il_dev already
installed on your system, refer to chapter 3, Known Problems
and Workarounds.

Do not install the Showcase 3.3.3 product if you are running
in the Japanese, Korean or Chinese locales. Instead,
install the version of Showcase that appears in the latest
version of the language module for your locale. If you have
already installed Showcase 3.3.2 or Showcase 3.3.3 you must
install patch 1005 to restore the CID font capability.

2.2 Information Specific to Systems with Desktop Special
Edition Pre-Installed

To determine whether your system has the Desktop Special
Edition software pre-installed on the hard disk use the
Software Manager tool, click on the "Manage Installed"
button and look in the list of software for the
"1_1_1_DesktopSpecialEdition" product. The presence of this
product on your hard disk indicates that you have the
Desktop Special Edition software pre-installed on your
system.

If you have the Desktop Special Edition software pre-
installed on your system the following information applies:

+ You may have purchased additional software products
included with your system (e.g. Indy Modeler, WebFORCE,
IndyStudio). In order to determine which additional
products have been installed on your system refer to
the WhatsNew pages by selecting "What's New?" on the
Find menu of the Toolchest.

+ There may be additional products on your Desktop
Special Edition CD that have not been pre-installed on
your hard disk. To install these products refer to the
CD installation booklet included with the CD. These
products may require a license. To obtain temporary
licenses send electronic mail (email) to
demolicense@sgi.com. The content of the message is
ignored. You will receive an automatic email response
to your license request. Alternatively, you can use
the World Wide Web to request temporary licenses from
http://www.sgi.com/Products/Evaluation/.

+ The PC-NFS Server Components product is included on the
Desktop Special Edition CD but may not been pre-
installed on your hard disk. In order to use or
configure this product you must first install the NFS
product. If you do not have the NFS product, it may be
purchased from your local Silicon Graphics
representative.

+ Several software patches have been pre-installed on
your hard disk. There are several additional patches
that can be installed from the CD. Refer to section 2.6
for patch information.

2.3 Upgrading IRIX 5.3 Systems to Desktop Special Edition

The following information applies to systems running IRIX
5.3 that are being upgraded to run the Desktop Special
Edition software.

+ If you already have a World Wide Web Server installed
on your system, we advise you to read through the
release notes for the OutBox product before you install
your Desktop Special Edition software. If you are
running early releases of the Netscape Communications
Server (prior to version 1.12), Silicon Graphics
recommends that you upgrade to version 1.12. It is
important to read the release notes for version 1.12
prior to installing it.

+ In order to properly view all documentation for the
Desktop Special Edition software, you are advised to
install the Netscape Navigator product. If your
WEBBROWSER environment variable has been set to point
to a browser other than the Netscape Navigator, you are
advised to unset the variable or change it to point to
the Netscape Navigator.

+ There are several software patches included on the
Desktop Special Edition CD. Please refer to section
2.6 for patch information.

2.4 Upgrading IRIX 6.1 Systems to Desktop Special Edition

The following information applies to systems running IRIX
6.1 that are being upgraded to run the Desktop Special
Edition software.

+ Desktop Special Edition is supported on IRIX 5.3 and
6.1, but the digital media tools contained in the
dmedia_tools product do not support MPEG and Quicktime
movie playback on IRIX 6.1. This limitation will
prohibit certain sample movies from playing.

2.5 Product Licenses Installed

2.5.1 License Information for Systems with Desktop Special
Edition Pre-Installed A number of Desktop Special Edition
applications require a license. Certain applications cannot
be used without a license while others require a license for
use of advanced features. If you already have a permanent
license for desired applications, the information below is

not applicable.

The following table lists the application and the type of
license provided with the Desktop Special Edition based on
the type of system you have purchased. Other products
bundled separately may require vendor-specific licenses.
Please refer to the documentation included with those
products for information regarding their licenses.

______________________________________________________________
Application All systems with All systems equipped
__________________p r i m a r y _c a c h e s _________w i t h _s e c o n d a r y _c a c h e s
WebMagic Pro License required, License required,
Features but not installed(1) but not installed(1)
______________________________________________________________
WebSpace Author Evaluation license Evaluation license
__________________installed(1) installed(1)
MediaConvert License required, License required,
Features but not installed(1) but not installed(1)
MPEG/Cinepak
Encoding
______________________________________________________________
SoftWindows Evaluation license Permanent license
__________________installed(2) installed
Annotator Evaluation license Evaluation license
installed(1) installed(1)
______________________________________________________________
TABLE 1. Product Licenses

Note 1: To purchase these software licenses or to upgrade
evaluation licenses to permanent status, please contact your
local Silicon Graphics representative.

Note 2: To purchase a permanent SoftWindows license, please
contact Insignia Solutions. Instructions for contacting
Insignia will be displayed when you start up SoftWindows.

If you have any difficulty with any software licenses,
please contact Silicon Graphics support organization. For
the United States and Canada call 1-800-800-4SGI. Customers
outside of the US and Canada should contact their local
Silicon Graphics office. If you are a customer of a Silicon
Graphics reseller, please contact your local support
provider.

2.5.2 License Information for CD Installation If you are
installing the Desktop Special Edition products from a CD,
the Annotator, SoftWindows, MediaConvert, WebMagic Pro and
WebSpace Author products will not have a license included.
For SoftWindows: to obtain an evaluation or permanent
license start SoftWindows and follow the instructions that
will be displayed on your screen. To obtain evaluation

licenses for the other SGI products listed above, send
electronic mail (email) to demolicense@sgi.com. The content
of the message is ignored. You will receive an automatic
email response to your license request. Alternatively, you
can use the World Wide Web to request evaluation licenses
from http://www.sgi.com/Products/Evaluation/. To purchase a
license for Annotator, MediaConvert, WebMagic Pro or
WebSpace Author, contact your local Silicon Graphics
representative.

2.6 Important information regarding Patches for IRIX 5.3
for Indy including R5000 and Desktop Special Edition
1.1:

Your system has been pre-installed with Irix 5.3 for Indy
including R5000. Several of the patches on the Desktop
Special Edition 1.1 CD are no longer current and are now
incompatible with Irix 5.3 for Indy including R5000. In
addition, several newer recommended patches have been pre-
installed on your system disk. This Desktop Special Edition
Release Notes 1.1.1 and the What's New 1.1.1 information
pre-installed on your system disk are also newer and provide
additional information about the patches pre-installed on
your system.

Summary (details below):

+ All systems have the following patches pre-installed:
517, 841, 944, 1038, 1095,1096, and 1144.

+ Replacement: Patches 517, 841, and 944 can be re-
installed if necessary from the Desktop Special Edition
1.1 CD. Patches 1038, 1095, 1096, and 1144 can be re-
installed via the web (see below).

+ The Desktop Special Edition 1.1 CD has the following
patches which should not be installed with Irix 5.3 for
Indy including R5000: 253, 455, 568, 617, 653, 670,
721, 766, 775, 824, 844, 926.

+ The Desktop Special Edition 1.1 CD has two additional
optional patches which are still current, 615 and 1005,
for specific hardware configurations or locales.

+ WebAuthor and WebAuthor/Serve systems have patches 517,
841, 944, 1038, 1095, 1096, 1135 and 1144 pre-
installed. Patch 1135 can be re-installed from Download
Cool Software (see below).

+ IndyStudio customers have patches 342, 517, 841, 944,
983, 998, 1038, 1095, 1096, 1135 and 1144 pre-
installed. Patches 342, 615, 653, 983, and 998 can be
re-installed if necessary from the Composer Light CD
included with IndyStudio. Patch 1135 can be re-
installed from Download Cool Software (see below).

For a full description of patches installed on pre-
configured systems, see below. We expect that there will be
some additional newer patches recommended for certain system
configurations or software applications. You can find out
about these patches by visiting the Download Cool Software
web page.
(http://www.sgi.com/Products/Evaluation/evaluation.html)

2.6.1 If your system disk becomes damaged and it becomes
necessary to replace it, or if you have removed the software
on your drive:

+ You can find the latest Desktop Special Edition Release
Notes 1.1.1 , What's New 1.1.1, and patches on Silicon
Surf's Download Cool Software page
(http://www.sgi.com/Products/Evaluation/evaluation.html).

+ Or you can contact your local Silicon Graphics Sales
office.

WebFORCE customers should also refer to the listing of
WebFORCE patches.

IndyStudio customers should also refer to the listing of
IndyStudio patches.

2.6.2 Systems with software pre-installed
Pre-installed patches:

__________________________________________________________________
S o f t w a r e _______________P a t c h _# _______D e s c r i p t i o n __________________
IRIX 5.3 1096 Recommended bug fix.
Object Server improvements.

1144 Recommended bug fix
Allows Window Manager
to do rubber-banding
object selection on
systems with two
overlay planes.
Fixes Desks Overview
licensing.

ISDN/PPP set-up 517 Highly recommended bug
fix for PPP. Highly
recommended for
InPerson audio/video
performance improvement
when running over
Indy ISDN

841 Recommended bug fixes
for ISDN. Highly
recommended for
InPerson audio/video
performance improvement
when running over
Indy ISDN

InPerson 2.1 944 Highly recommended
bug fix that allows
InPerson whiteboard
to read 3D models
in Inventor 2.1 format.

SoftWindows 2.0 1038 Highly recommended
fix so that SoftWindows
will launch when pre-
installed on hard drive
(hostname change)

WebMagic 2.0.1 1095 Recommended bug
fix for Japanese localization.

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TABLE 2. Core set of patches pre-installed on all systems

Additional patches on the CD

You may want to install the following patches from your CD
bases on your system configuration, location, or application
uses. These patches are still valid.

______________________________________________________________
S o f t w a r e __________________P a t c h _# _______D e s c r i p t i o n ___________
InPerson 2.1 615 Highly recommended
video bug fix for
Indigo2/Indy/Indigo
systems with Galileo/
Indigo2Video/IndyVideo
optional video boards.

Showcase 3.3.2 or 3.3.3 1005 Highly recommended
for customers in Japan,
Korea, China and Taiwan
to restore CID font
capability.

______________________________________________________________
TABLE 3. Patches available on the Desktop Special Edition
CD

Most of the patches on your Desktop Special Edition 1.1 CD
should not be installed because they are out of date. To
keep current with the patches from SGI, we recommend that
you use our patch database available to Supportfolio
customers.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________
P a t c h _# _________________D e s c r i p t i o n _______________________________________________________________
253 No longer current.
Replacement not available at time of shipment
but may be available from patch database.

455 Incompatible with Irix 5.3 for R5000.
Replaced by patch 1144 pre-installed
on your system disk.

568 No longer current.
Replacement not available at time of shipment
but may be available from patch database.

617 Incompatible with Irix 5.3 for R5000.
Replaced by patch 1096 pre-installed
on your system disk.

653 No longer current.
Replacement not available at time of shipment
but may be available from patch database.

670 No longer current.
Replacement not available at time of shipment
but may be available from patch database.

721 No longer current.
Replacement not available at time of shipment
but may be available from patch database.

766 Incompatible with Irix 5.3 for R5000.
Replacement not available at time of shipment
but may be available from patch database.

775 For XFS WebFORCE systems only.
No longer current. Replacement not
available at time of shipment but
may be available from patch database.

824 Breaks OutOfBox Experience.
However, this patch may still be useful as
Inventor patch for Annotator 1.0 and InPerson 2.1
Reduces memory usage by the application and improves
startup performance.

844 No longer current.
Replaced by patch 1095 pre-installed
on your system disk.

926 Incompatible with Irix 5.3 for R5000.
Replacement not available at time of shipment

but may be available from patch database.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________
TABLE 4. Patches on the Desktop Special Edition CD that
should not be installed

2.6.3 WebFORCE Patches

Pre-installed Patches:WebAuthor and WebAuthor/Serve systems
have all the patches listed in Table 2 above, plus Patch
1135 for Adobe Photoshop pre-installed on the system disk
(allows Photoshop to launch on an R5000 system). This patch
will also be available on the Download Cool Software web
page on Silicon Surf
(http://www.sgi.com/Products/Evaluation/evaluation.html)
should you ever need to re-install it.

Additional Patches on the CD: The following patches on your
WebFORCE CD are no longer valid or have been replaced: 547,
670, 766, 775. To keep current with with patches from SGI,
we recomment that you use our patch database available to
Supportfolio customers.

2.6.4 IndyStudio Patches
Pre-installed Patches: IndyStudio systems have pre-installed
all the patches listed in Table 2 above, plus the ones
listed below. The Composer Light patches are available on
the Composer Light CD should yu ever need to re-install
them. The Photoshop patch 1135 is available from Download
Cool Software:

(http://www.sgi.com/Products/Evaluation/evaluation.html).

______________________________________________________________
S o f t w a r e _______________P a t c h _# _______D e s c r i p t i o n ______________
Composer Light 3.6.1 342 Highly recommended
fixes system hangs.

983 Highly recommended
fixes memory leak
with Dmedia 5.5 and 5.1,
improves memory usage.

998 Highly recommended
fixes memory leak
with Dmedia 5.5 and 5.1,
improves memory usage.

Photoshop 3.0 1135 Allows Photoshop to launch
on an R5000 system.

______________________________________________________________
TABLE 5. Patches pre-installed on IndyStudio systems

Additional Patches on the CD:

615 Highly recommended
video bug fix for Indigo2/
Indy/Indigo systems
with Galileo/Indigo2Video/
Indy Video optional video
boards.

653 Highly recommended
device driver bug fix for
Indigo2/Indy/Indigo
systems with Galileo/
Indigo2Video/IndyVideo
optional video boards.

983 Highly recommended
fixes memory leak
with Dmedia 5.5 and 5.1,
improves memory usage.

998 Highly recommended
fixes memory leak
with Dmedia 5.5 and 5.1,
improves memory usage.

______________________________________________________________
TABLE 6. Patches on the Alias/Wavefront Composer Light CD

3. Known Problems and Workarounds

+ In this release, we have included an updated version of
il_eoe which will cause a conflict with il_dev if it
has been installed previously. To work around this
problem, the 2.5 version of il_dev needs to be
installed. To acquire the 2.5 version of il_dev
contact your local Silicon Graphics representative.

+ For proper functioning of SoundPlayer you must install
dmedia_eoe.sw.midi from the Desktop Special Edition CD.

+ Do not install the Showcase 3.3.3 product if you are
running in the Japanese, Korean or Chinese locales.
Instead, install the version of Showcase that appears
in the latest version of the language module for your
locale. If you have already installed Showcase 3.3.2 or
Showcase 3.3.3 you must install patch 1005 to restore
the CID font capability.

+ At this time (Spring '96) there appears to be an
anomaly with Adobe Illustrator on SGI systems. If you
encounter an error dialogue box while using
Illustrator, you should save your work immediately and
frequently thereafter (or save, quit, and re-open the
file). A patch may become available for this problem,
check the Download Cool Software website on Silicon
Surf:

http://www.sgi.com/Products/Evaluation/evaluation.html

4. Documentation Errors

Each Desktop Special Edition product contains release notes
providing detailed information on documentation errors for
that product.

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