I am not seeing PEX Extension on AS 500/400 with Powerstorm 4D50T

From: System Prestidigitator <BOLSON_at_frango.hs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 12:55:25 -0700 (PDT)

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I have installed AVS 5.3 on my Digital Alphastation 500/400, with the
Powerstorm 4D50T 3D accelerator. Open3D is installed, and the
server configuration claims to be loading the PEX/PHIGS extension.

However, the PEX extension doesn't display in xdpyinfo:
number of extensions: 26
    Adobe-DPS-Extension
    BIG-REQUESTS
    DEC-Direct-Render
    DEC-E3-SPECIAL
    DEC-GLX
    DEC-PEER-GLX
    DEC-XTRAP
    DECStereo
    DOUBLE-BUFFER
    DPMS
    DPSExtension
    GLX
    Keyboard-Management-Extension
    MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
    MIT-SHM
    MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
    Multi-Buffering
    SHAPE
    SYNC
    Shared-Memory Transport
    XC-MISC
    XIE
    XInputExtension
    XKEYBOARD
    XTEST
    XVideo


Here is the appropriate (I believe) section of my Xserver.conf:
! you specify command line arguments here
args <
! Cateye Server args start
        -pn -nice -2 -bs -su
! Cateye Server args end
        -pn
>
! Start Open3D Extensions Lis
!
extensions <
         < _dec_PEX lib_dec_PEX.so __PEX_LoadInit
           < _dec_3dlib lib_dec_3dlib.so ThreeDInitProc >
           < _dec_x3d_pex lib_dec_x3d_pex.so PexExtensionInit >
>
         < directx libdirectx.so DirectXInit >
         < _dec_GLX lib_dec_GLX.so __GLX_LoadInit GLX
            < _dec_opengl lib_dec_opengl.so GLExtensionInit
PMAGC-AA >
            < _dec_opengl lib_dec_opengl.so GLExtensionInit
PMAGC-BA >
            < _dec_opengl lib_dec_opengl.so GLExtensionInit
PMAGC-DA >
            < _dec_opengl lib_dec_opengl.so GLExtensionInit
PMAGC-EA >
            < _dec_opengl lib_dec_opengl.so GLExtensionInit
PMAGD-BA >
            < _dec_opengl lib_dec_opengl.so GLExtensionInit
PMAGD-AA >
            < _dec_opengl lib_dec_opengl.so GLExtensionInit
PMAGD >
            < _dec_opengl lib_dec_opengl.so GLExtensionInit
PMAG-BB >
            < _dec_opengl lib_dec_opengl.so GLExtensionInit
PMAGB-BA >
            < _dec_opengl lib_dec_opengl.so GLExtensionInit
ZLXp-L1 >
            < _dec_opengl lib_dec_opengl.so GLExtensionInit
ZLXp-L2 >
            < _dec_opengl lib_dec_opengl.so GLExtensionInit
ZLXp-L1_at_5 >
            < _dec_opengl lib_dec_opengl.so GLExtensionInit
ZLXp-L2_at_5 >
            < _dec_opengl lib_dec_opengl.so GLExtensionInit
p00041011 >
            < _dec_opengl lib_dec_opengl.so GLExtensionInit
ZLXp-EV5 >
            < _dec_opengl lib_dec_opengl.so GLExtensionInit
ZLXp2-EV4 >
            < _dec_opengl lib_dec_opengl.so GLExtensionInit
ZLXp2-EV5 >

            < _dec_sampleGL lib_dec_sampleGL.so __glXExtensionInit
p00e01091 >
            < _dec_sampleGL lib_dec_sampleGL.so __glXExtensionInit
p00e11091 >
            < _dec_sampleGL lib_dec_sampleGL.so __glXExtensionInit
p00e21091 >
            < _dec_sampleGL lib_dec_sampleGL.so __glXExtensionInit
p00e31091 >
            < _dec_sampleGL lib_dec_sampleGL.so __glXExtensionInit
p00e41091 >
>
         < extMultibuf libextMultibuf.so
MultibufferExtensionInit >
         < _dec_glXDECpeer lib_dec_glXDECpeer.so InitglXDECExtension
DEC-PEER-GL
X >
>
!
! End Open3D Extensions List
! Start O3DDWSSTEREO Extensions List
extensions <
          < _dec_Stereo lib_dec_Stereo.so DECStereoExtensionInit >
>
! End O3DDWSSTEREO Extensions List

I have checked that the libraries listed under _dec_PEX exist:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 24576 Mar 17 12:51
/usr/shlib/X11/lib_dec_PEX.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 221184 Mar 17 12:51
/usr/shlib/X11/lib_dec_3dlib.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 851968 Mar 17 12:51
/usr/shlib/X11/lib_dec_x3d_pex.so

I couldn't find anything in release notes that indicate that PEX is not
supported on the 4D50T.

Does anyone know the magic incantation I need? AVS comes up in software
rendering only, and although the rendering is quite adequate, it is
certainly not at hardware speed!
Thanks for any help.

-- 
Ed Bolson       University of Washington  Cardiac Imaging Lab    
(206)543-4535
bolson_at_u.washington.edu    http://weber.u.washington.edu/~bolson
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Received on Thu Jul 03 1997 - 22:10:24 NZST

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