Chapter 4 —
Running the Installation
Verification Procedure
This chapter explains what you need to do after the installation to make Multimedia Services for DIGITAL UNIX ready for use.
You can run the Installation Verification Procedure (IVP) during the installation, or you can run the IVP independently after installing Multimedia Services for DIGITAL UNIX to verify that the software is available on your system. You might also want to run the IVP after a system failure to be sure that users can access Multimedia Services for DIGITAL UNIX.
If you are not installing any device support subsets, you are prompted at the end of the installation as to whether you want to run the IVP. If you install any of the device support subsets, you will not be prompted to run the IVP. Device support subsets require that a new kernel be booted, and because the IVP may depend on these subsets, you must reboot your system before running the IVP. You will need to run the IVP separately from the installation, as noted below, so that the device support subsets can be tested by the IVP.
The Multimedia Services for DIGITAL UNIX IVP verifies the installation as follows:
- If the mmeserver is not already running, an attempt to start the server is made. If the server is not running one second after the attempt to start it, then the IVP fails.
- A program (/usr/sbin/mme_ivp_audio_devices) to access all waveIn devices and all waveOut devices is run. For the devices that are found, the device numbers assigned to those devices and the names of the devices are listed.
- At the option of the user, a program (/usr/sbin/mme_ivp_audio_play) to play audio on a user-specified device is run. If the program encounters any errors, then the IVP fails.
- A similar verification of the video devices is done by running mme_ivp_video, which first lists the devices and then plays a preselected video clip on the X Display.
When running the IVP, the superuser must have access to the X Display. The Multimedia Services Run-Time Sample Data subset must be installed.
- If none of the previous errors has occurred, then the IVP succeeds.
To run the IVP after an installation, enter the following command:
# /usr/sbin/setld -v MMERT240
For a sample Multimedia Services for DIGITAL UNIX IVP, see Section 8.4.
If the verification process fails, look in the /var/adm/smlogs/fverify.log file for information to help diagnose the problem.