A6150B graphics card installation

[Manuel Jose Hurtado M.]

HI i tried to install a new brand graphics card in a L2000 server whith 2 procesors 1 GB of memory and hpux 11.00, the firmware of the server 40.19, whith the in io command the card seen unknown 0/7/0/0 vendor id 0x103c,devide id 0x108b, bus# 56,slot# 11, i add the graphics driver in the kernel, when the operative system is up whith the ioscan the card seen ok , pci graphics card, but i have no video in the monitor, the xserver try to work but send error like no pointer device attached

[Steven E. Protter]

My rp5450 L2000 box already has an I/0 card at path 0/7/0/0

Its a fibre card in my case, treated as SCSI

Did you check ioscan prior to installation and make sure the SCSI ID of the graphics card was not in conflict with anything else?

SEP

[Manuel Jose Hurtado M.]

can you explain more, because de graphics card did not have scsi id

[Eugeny Brychkov]

No SCSI Ids here :o)
Did you think to go to PDC and check paths - especially console device path? When you'll go there you should see GRAPHICS device, and will be able to set it as a console path.
I'm not sure it will help, but at least worth to try. Explore more PDC commands with 'help' command of PDC config menu
Eugeny

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Manuel,

I think Eugeny is on the right track. You have to tell the system the path to the console & KB for it to start using it.

So from the ISL> prompt you'd enter:

ISL> conspath 0/7/0/0
then
ISL> display

to verify the new path

Also the A6150B must be installed in a Turbo slot. On an L-class, that's slots 7 through 12.

HTH,
Jeff