Graphics in hpux 10.20

[jim bidebo]

I got a pretty old workstation with 2 graphicadapters, one internal (HP VISUALIZE-EG) and one additional card (HP VISUALIZE-48+) at slot 3a.

the internal card works fine when the OS is loaded.

But i only want to use the additional card. And thats where the problems starts:

When i try to configure it from sam (sam->Display->Monitor Configuration) i get the following error message:

At this time the /opt/graphics/common/bin/setmon command is failing to report any information about the HP VISUALIZE-48+ graphics device.

I would also like to use this card as console, but dont really know how to make it possible since neither of the graphics cards initializes before the OS is loaded...

[Bill McNAMARA_1 · Accepted solution]

Try graphinfo.

Later,
Bill

[Alex Glennie]

The errors is relating to setmon
and relating to the monitor !

.... what happens if you actually go into SAM -> Display-> Xserver config-> select the vis 48 card->goto Actions-> Add Screen to configuration

setmon just changes the screen res and freq.

[jim bidebo]

well, it works without error messages to add an xserver to the display... but i guess that the gfxcard sends a frequency that is to high for the monitor to handle (got a hp A4033A). The monitor seams to only be able to view 1280x1024 at 72hz, non of the other modes in sam seams to work... and when trying the VISUALIZE-48+ card at another monitor it works! So i guess i need to find a better CRT...

[jim bidebo]

hmm.. theres no magical answer to this post! only thought those apeard when you gave a 10 for the answer.. ive only given a 8 and a 4...