Installed video card on Proliant 1850R

[Doug Zitzelsberger]

Hello,

I have a Proliant 1850R. The video capabilities of the embedded adapter are very limited so I installed a 32MB video adapter.

I am running RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
I cannot seem to get the installed adapter to work. I can see text but no graphics. Is a 32MB video adapter beyond the capacity of this server?

With the embedded adapter, I could see graphics and I know the installed adapter is a common video adapter for Linux.

I think I need to allocate more system resources to the adapter but I do not see a way to do that in the System Configuration Utility.

Any ideas?

[Oleg Koroz]

You can disable Video on board

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/UCR/SupportManual/TPM_327160-001_ch4/TPM_327160-001_ch4.pdf

You can run F10 Updates; it will assign all Automatically, at system configuration.


... I can see text but no graphics ...

sound like you need right driver for 32MB adapter

[e4services]

Yes, sounds like a driver issue not a server issue. Use a more modern video board that supports Linux.

[Terry Hutchings]

Which slot do you have the adapter installed in? To get the best chance of getting it to work correctly, make sure the adapter is installed in slot 1.