ATI RADEON 7500 PCI Graphics Controller Installation Guide
Verification of Hardware Installation
After the ATI RADEON 7500 graphics controller has been installed and the system has rebooted, verify the graphics card was correctly installed and identify which device file corresponds to which card.
1.Run the command
ioscan
Output similar to the following should appear. There should be one line for every graphics device in the system. Each device should have gvid_core for a driver and the S/W State should be CLAIMED.
Class | I H/W Path | Driver | S/W State | H/W Type | Description | |
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graphics | 0 | 0/3/1/0 | gvid_core | CLAIMED | INTERACE | PCI Display |
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graphics | 1 | 0/6/2/0 | gvid_core | CLAIMED | INTERACE | PCI Display |
(10025159) |
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2.Display the contents of /dev/gvid_info by running the command cat /dev/gvid_info
Output similar to the following should appear. There should be one line (i.e. one device file) for every graphics device in the system.
/dev/gvid0
/dev/gvid1
3.Determine the association of physical graphics cards to special device files (/dev/gvid?) by running the command
Setmon
The output should look something like
Device / dev / gvid0 is a ATI Radeon 7000
Ii the device is the Manageability card or
Device / dev / gvid0 is a ATI Radeon 7500 QW if the device is the ATI RADEON 7500 graphics card.
ATI RADEON 7500 as Default Xserver Device
The program sam can be used to make the ATI RADEON 7500 graphics controller the default Xserver device. This is for a
1.Log in as root
2.Run /usr/sbin/sam. Choose
3.Restart the Xserver.
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