INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR 3DxWare FOR AIX 5.2 ML04 (and higher) - V 1.4.0To install the files for 3DxWare for Unix to the corresponding directoriesand to run the driver you need root privileges.Make sure you fulfill the following prerequisites:AIX 5:AIX 5.2 or higher is required.For AIX 52 you will need ML5200-07 or ML5200-04 and APAR IY78349 (can only be applied to ML04 or above)For AIX 53 you will need ML5300-03 or APAR IY78350The web site URL for IBM fixes is: http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/unixservers/aixfixes.htmlFor USB device support you will need the following AIX filesets:devices.pci.22106474devices.pci.33103500devices.pci.99172704devices.pci.c1110358devices.common.IBM.usbdevices.usbif.03000008The first four contain drivers for the four different USB host controllers that AIX supports.You only need the one that matches your hardware but having them all does no harm. 'devices.common.IBM.usb'is the USB System Driver and 'devices.usbif.03000008' contains the client driver for 3DConnexion devices.The files for the driver are provided with the following archive:AIX 5:3dxware-aix5-v1-4-0.tar.gzPlease save the file 3dxware-aix5-v1-4-0.tar.gz into the /tmp directoryand extract and run the script install-3dxunix.sh:gzip -cd 3dxware-aix5-v1-4-0.tar.gz | tar xf - install-3dxunix.sh./install-3dxunix.shIf you don't choose during installation the possibility to start the driver during login from the/etc/inittab please make sure the driver is started before you launch your application.For the USB devices start the driver with the following command:AIX 5:/etc/3DxWare/daemon/3dxsrv -d usbFor the serial devices start the driver with:/etc/3DxWare/daemon -d /dev/where is the name of your serial port to which the device is attached.Example: /etc/3DxWare/daemon/3dxsrv -d /dev/tty0For the start of the driver from the /etc/inittab the following line is added:3dx:234:respawn:/etc/3DxWare/daemon/3dxsrv -d /dev/null 2>&1where is the name of the port to which the device is attached.Demos:After unpacking 3dxware-aix5-v1-4-0.tar you can find two demos:The cube demo: /tmp/xcube anda value demo: /tmp/xvalueThose are two simple demos that work with the setting 'Any Application'. You may copy thebinaries to your favourite location for binaries.