On Jul 12, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Edward Arrington wrote:
There doesn't seem to be a lot of support for ongoing development of
Darwin outside of Apple, but hopefully that will change. I'm trying
to make a determination about how Maya with mental ray or the mental
ray satellite might or might not run on Darwin. I'm interested in
using either Maya or just the mental ray satellite app for backend
rendering in a small cluster of mixed cpus (PowerPC, Intel, AMD) and
I'd rather not have to have one Linux distro for the x86 stuff and
one Linux distro for the PowerPC stuff. By all accounts it looks
like Dr. Queue will install and run under Darwin as an X11 app and
that's the queue management software I want to use. Now I just have
to figure out the mental ray part of the puzzle. It seems plausible
that mental ray would install on Darwin and maybe be accessible from
the command line, since the OS X install probably installs 80% of
the application the Darwin component of OS X, but I don't know if
that is actually going to work or whether OS X binaries will
actually install usable apps on Darwin. PLEASE HELP.
I've never even heard for mental ray before now, but a little bit of
searching turned this up: http://www.mentalimages.com/2_1_2_configurations/index.html
"mental ray® supports all UNIX platforms from Hewlett-Packard (HPPA
2.0, Alpha, IA64), IBM (Power, PowerPC), SGI, Inc. (MIPS, IA64), and
Sun Microsystems (Sparc). Also, mental ray supports Windows 2000/XP
platforms. Furthermore, mental ray supports LINUX on x86, IA64 Itanium
and AMD X86-64 Opteron based platforms and Apple Macintosh OS X
(PowerPC and Intel)."
Are you trying to install this under OS X, or under Darwin on a
generic X86 platform?
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