HP 7500 I manual Verification of Hardware Installation, ATI Radeon 7500 as Default Xserver Device

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HP-UX Configuration

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 –fun –C graphics

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

graphics

0

0/3/1/0

gvid_core

CLAIMED

INTERACE

PCI Display

(10025157)

 

 

 

 

 

 

graphics

1

0/6/2/0

gvid_core

CLAIMED

INTERACE

PCI Display

(10025159)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 –N / dev / gvid0

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 single-screen Xserver configuration. For a multihead Xserver configuration, see “Multihead Support” on page 20.

1.Log in as root

2.Run /usr/sbin/sam. Choose Display->Xserver Configuration. All graphics cards in the system are listed. Choose the graphics device that is the current Xserver device. This device may or may not be the ATI RADEON 7500. From the pull-down menu, select Actions->Remove Screen from Configuration. Choose the new device you would like to be the default Xserver device. The new device should be one of the ATI RADEON 7500 device entries. From the pull-down menu, choose Actions->Add Screen to Configuration.

3.Restart the Xserver.

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