Well, apparantly, the problem was the video card. After replacing
the card, graphics console is back. The only problem I ran into was
when I took out the old board, I put it down right next to the new
board, did something, then forgot which was which, and of course I
picked the bad board first to put back in.
The option of setting up a serial console was suggested, which I
never actually did, since the board worked didn't need to go that
route.
Apparantly, there was no setup required for 3.2c for this video
card, as all the drivers needed were already in the OS. according
to the manual, any standard VGA monitor should work with this
card. I'll have to try one of our PC monitors to see how it
well it works later this week...will send an update with results.
George Gallen
ggallen_at_slackinc.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Gallen [mailto:ggallen_at_slackinc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 5:07 PM
> To: 'tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov'
> Subject: ATImach64 video card question
>
>
> 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 Tue Sep 07 1999 - 14:59:36 NZST