Standar monitor in a B2000 workstation

[Juan González]

Hi,
I have a B2000 Visualize workstation with a big HP P910 monitor, I want to replace it with a standar monitor ( and use the big one in my desktop :-) ); the problem is that when I connected the standar monitor to the workstation and I power on it the monitor didn't show anything just a black screen. I think this can be caused by the resolution of the video subsytem , ?Do you know how to change it?

Thanks in advance
Juan Gonzalez

[Kenneth Platz · Accepted solution]

Juan,

There is a "setmon" utility (/opt/graphics/common/bin/setmon) which will allow you to change the screen resolution and refresh rate of your graphics card. The utility will bring up a menu of available video modes, and you will be able to choose which mode best suits your monitor. You will then have the option of writing this configuration to stable storage (choose "yes" to this one).

I hope this helps.

[Manuel Plaza]

Hi Juan,

You can change this in the "Boot Console Interface". The Owner's Guide tell you how do it. You access to this menu before the operating system boot.

Regards,

Manuel

[Iain F. Brown]

Setting B2000 Monitor type at power on.
Turn the workstation on and watch for the Num Lock light to flash.
NOTE It takes approximately one to two minutes after powering on the workstation
before the Num Lock light flashes.
Wait two seconds after the Num Lock light comes on, which is near the end of the boot
sequence, then press Tab to initiate the automatic monitor selection process.if you see information similar to the following displayed on your screen and it is the correct monitor type, press the Enter key to select it.
MONITOR INFORMATION
Path Slot Head Type Size Freq Class
------ ------ ---- ----- ------- ----- -------
GRAPHICS(2) 2 1 n nnnnxnnnn nnHz PCI

Press[RETURN]to select this monitor type(type n of n types)

Note that if you do not select this monitor type, the system cycles through all of the
available monitor types one at a time until you find one that meets your needs.
Once you have made your monitor type selection, the system queries you to confirm your
selection. Press Y to save this monitor type.If you press any key other than Y, the following message is displayed:
Monitor type not saved.

[Uffe Gavnholt_1]

Another problem might be that you are using a PC monitor with your UX workstation.

Normal PC monitors are not able to do this, because of the physical interface of the video card on UX.

I'm not sure i remember correctly, but unix sends out it's monitor vsync on one pin, where PC's sends it out on another.

bottom line anyway, is that you can't use a PC monitor on a UX box - and rarely a UX monitor with a PC box. (although some UX monitors are able to cope with this)

Uffe