A6150B / A6150A graphics adapter installation on rp3440

[Rui_Yu]

The A6160B graphics adapter is  an add on for the rp2xxx, rp3xxx, rp4xxx and rp5xxx servers to run a local Xserver when HPUX is up&running.

!!! It does not provide any console access functionality on any parisc server !!!

This product is a bundle of the PCI graphics card and a USB PCI card.
The USB must not be used with the rp3440 and rp4440. Instead the internal USB ports must be used.
The card support the following resolutions:

1024 x 768  at 75Hz
1280 x 1024 at 75Hz
1600 x 1200 at 75Hz

=> the rackintegrated TFT5600  monitor with integrated keyboard and mous cannot be used, because it supports only up to 70 Hz refresh rate.

Monitors that should work are (and many others):

L1925 2-Tone TCO99 TFT Monitor

P9026A

HP L1730 17" Flat Panel Monitor TCO

P9624A

HP L1530 15" Flat Panel Monitor

P9625A

L1925 2-Tone TCO99 TFT Monitor

P9626A

HP L1955 19 inch TFT Monitor

PD974AA

How configure HPUX to display a CDE login screen via the VGA card

1. Make sure thegraph3 driver is included in the current kernel. If it is missing install it.
   • HPUX 11.0, 11.11: sam or check /stand/system
   • HPUX 11.23 use kcweb or "kcmodule graph3"
2. install the card (no matter what slot)
3. boot to BCH and check if the card is recognized in the information menu with the "io" command:

Example:

PCI DEVICE INFORMATION
                                Path                 Vendor  Device Bus Slot
Description                     (dec)                    Id      Id   #    #
-----------                     -----                ------  ------ --- ----
USB                             0/0/1/0              0x1033  0x35    0    0  
USB                             0/0/1/1              0x1033  0x35    0    0  
USB                             0/0/1/2              0x1033  0xe0    0    0  
IDE cntlr                       0/0/2/0              0x1095  0x649   0    0  
SCSI bus cntlr                  0/1/1/0              0x1000  0x21    32   0  
SCSI bus cntlr                  0/1/1/1              0x1000  0x21    32   0  
Ethernet cntlr                  0/1/2/0              0x14e4  0x1645  32   0  
3D cntlr                        0/4/1/0              0x103c  0x108b  128  1  
Communications dev              0/7/1/0              0x103c  0x1290  224  0  
Comp. ser cntlr                 0/7/1/1              0x103c  0x1048  224  0  
8514-cmpbl cntlr                0/7/2/0              0x1002  0x5159  224  0  

1. 
   boot HPUX and check if the kernel has claimed the card in ioscan.
   Example:

ba          4  0/4            lba        CLAIMED     BUS_NEXUS    Local PCI-X B)
graphics    0  0/4/1/0        graph3     CLAIMED     INTERFACE    PCI Display ()

1. check if the /dev/crt devicefile is there. If no create it with insf -e.

# ll /dev/crt
crw-rw-rw-   2 bin        bin        174 0x000000 Oct 12 13:17 /dev/crt
# lssf /dev/crt
pseudo driver framebuf minor 0x000000 /dev/crt

1. now you can run graphinfo (/opt/graphics/common/bin/graphinfo or /usr/bin/graphinfo) to check the setting of the card:
   see:graphinfo output
   
   7. you can change the settings (resolution etc.) with the tool /opt/graphics/common/bin/setmon.
   
   8. enable the Xserver:
   8.1 Ensure /etc/dt/config/Xservers exists. If not, use /usr/dt/config/dtrc.d/20_graph_conf to create.
   8.2 Ensure the line: 
   * Local local@console /usr/bin/X11/X :0
   is not commented out of the /etc/dt/config/Xservers file.
   8.3 Ensure dt is enabled. Use /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -e to enable dt.
   
   9. reboot the server