We have a 2100 with an ATI mach64-GX (ISA) card.
a couple months ago our video stopped working (VRC15ka)
I hooked it up to a VGA PC and the monitor worked.
I reseated the video board over the weekend and still no
video...
powerup's are annoying because you can't see what's happening
or any errors on powerup..
I have ordered a new ati card, and a couple questions:
(should get here tomorrow). Will I need to initialize the
card with the driver disk I have? And If I do, how do I see
what I'm typing? or will the card work in a default setting
enough for me to see the >>> prompt?
My first thought was that the existing card may just need
to be reinitialized, but like I said, I can't see anything
on powerup, the light just keeps blinking like it's searching
for a video signal to switch modes to.
While reading the manual for the graphics card, i checked the
/var/X11/xdm/Xservers file and currently it uses the powerup
default (1024x768) , although I may change it tonite to another value
just to see if it makes a difference, but since this file isn't
even read until way past bootup, I wouldn't think that changing
the resolution would do anything.
it also states that the card powers up in VGA text mode, I'm assuming
at that point a normal PC monitor would show something, which it
didn't.
I did see the following in the /var/X11/xdm/xdm-errors file:
which was only file aside from the /var/X11/xdm/xdm-pid file
that has been recently updated in that directory.
# cat xdm-errors
Creating DECnet socket: Protocol not supported (I don't believe
we are using DECnet?)
Is there any utility I can run to check the status of the video card
from unix (since I can't see the >>> prompt at present)
TIA
George Gallen
ggallen_at_slackinc.com
Received on Thu Sep 02 1999 - 21:07:26 NZST