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Video card support under TRU64 5.1b         


Author: Stephen Jones
Date: Jun 20, 2008 00:42

Hi, I'm trying to determine what is the best video card supported
under TRU64 5.1b. I currently have an ATI 109-A02900-00 "All In Wonder"
7500 PCI card however I cannot determine if its fully supported. The
generic kernel uses the stock vga driver which of course will only get
me the basic resolution.

I'd really like to see the 7500 "All In Wonder" work under 5.1b. If it
is not possible, is there a recommended card?
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Re: Video card support under TRU64 5.1b         


Author: Kari Uusimäki
Date: Jun 20, 2008 12:22

Stephen Jones wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to determine what is the best video card supported
> under TRU64 5.1b. I currently have an ATI 109-A02900-00 "All In Wonder"
> 7500 PCI card however I cannot determine if its fully supported. The
> generic kernel uses the stock vga driver which of course will only get
> me the basic resolution.
>
> I'd really like to see the 7500 "All In Wonder" work under 5.1b. If it
> is not possible, is there a recommended card?
>

The main idea is that all options supported on AlphaServers or
AlphaStations are supported in Tru64 unix also.

Check your Alpha system supported options at:
http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/products/options.html

Btw. The ATI Radeon 7500 PCI is the PBXGG
http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/options/asds10/asds10_3x-pbxgg-aa.html

The resolution by default is usually a very modest one, but you can
configure it to any mode the adapter and your monitor supports by
editing the configuration file like in the following example:
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Re: Video card support under TRU64 5.1b         


Author: David
Date: Jun 24, 2008 22:56

See this below from the web

a.. It turns out that my problems are hardware related. The 433au at work
has a PowerStorm 4D50T graphics card. I found the latest driver (for
5.1a) at http://www.support.compaq.com/open3d/sw4d50t.htm. It would
not install on 5.1b, so I installed 5.1a, installed the drive (looking
good), upgrading to 5.1b removed the driver and I was back to 640x480.

My home machine is actually a 433a. It has an AccelGraphics card, for
which I could only find NT drivers.

*** Replies ***

*** Thomas Sjolshagen

Some of the PWS's had graphics cards where you had to set the
resolution
by way of a turnable switch at the top (the part of the card facing up
from the PCI slot itself)...

*** Kris Smith

The change that you are looking to make will be in the
/usr/var/X11/Xservers.conf file. You should find a section in that file
that refers to your video driver. It will look something like:
~~...
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Re: Video card support under TRU64 5.1b         


Author: David
Date: Jun 24, 2008 22:57

THis worked with our tru64 5.1b with generic radeon 7500
running at 1280 x 1024 no problem

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