[AG-TECH] ag on linux

[Dave Semeraro]

Well, I have finally been able to get the venue client to work under Linux. 
Mind you I have
no idea what I did to make it work. The story is basically this. Ivan 
installed the rc1 on my
laptop at the Alliance all hands meeting. It didnt work under wireless 
there. I came back to
my office and tried it on the wired network. No joy. The dreaded "invalid 
URL" window kept
popping up. I gave up in disgust.

Today I returned to the battle with a fresh HP workstation and a virgin 
install of RedHat 7.3.
Did the AG install boogie and everything went well untill I pushed the GO 
button on the
venue client. INVALID URL!!! Blast! I knew this could be done because I 
talked to George
Estes earlier in the day and he had done it under RedHat 8.0. He even 
showed it to me.
I went back to my office and monkeyed around some more. I thought I would 
give the laptop a
try. Lo and Behold it connected on the first try! I didnt do anything to 
it. It just worked. Maybe the
good karma had extended to the HP I thought. I gave that machine a try and 
the blasted
invalid url message returned. So now I have two linux systems. One works 
and one doesnt.
My job next week is to try to figure out what is the difference between them.

Have a good weekend AG-Techies. And stay tuned to the adventures of Dave in 
AG Linux land!



Dave Semeraro Ph.D.
Visualization and Virtual Environments Group
NCSA University of Illinois
605 E. Springfield Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820
Semeraro at ncsa.uiuc.edu
(217) 244-1852