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HP PCI AMD Radeon® 7000 Graphics
Adapter Installation Guide

HP Part Number: AH391-9000A_ed3
Published: September 2010
Edition: 3

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Page 1: ...HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter Installation Guide HP Part Number AH391 9000A_ed3 Published September 2010 Edition 3 ...

Page 2: ...anying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein Intel Pentium Intel Inside and the Intel Inside logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries Legal Notices ATI Radeon is a ...

Page 3: ...14 Visual Types 14 Open3D Support 15 Multiple Graphics Cards Support 15 Multi Screen Versus XINERAMA 15 Screen Order and Forcing Single Headed Operation 15 Modifying the Graphics Configuration 15 HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter Default Graphics Settings 15 Determining Current settings 15 Overriding the Default Settings 16 Server Startup and Configuration Messages 17 Troubleshooting 18 4 HP...

Page 4: ...ult Graphics Resolution 25 How to Change the Resolution and Refresh Rate 25 Multihead Support 25 Manual Multi Screen Configuration 26 Xf86Config Changes 26 Messages 27 Troubleshooting 28 4 Table of Contents ...

Page 5: ...List of Figures 1 1 The HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter 9 5 ...

Page 6: ...onnector Pinout 10 2 1 Contents of the HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter Box 11 3 1 Supported Video Modes HP OpenVMS I64 13 3 2 Troubleshooting Criteria 18 4 1 AH391A Graphics Adapter Supported Resolutions 24 4 2 Troubleshooting Criteria 28 6 List of Tables ...

Page 7: ...phics Adapter under the HP OpenVMS I64 operating system Chapter 4 HP UX Configuration This chapter provides information for installing and modifying the software required to support 2D two dimensional graphics with the HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter under the HP UX operating system Typographic Conventions This document uses the following typographical conventions or A percent sign represe...

Page 8: ...tion Visit the HP Web site at http h20000 www2 hp com bizsupport TechSupport Home jsp for service tools and more information about the HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter The Graphics Administration Guide for HP UX 11 X Servers is a highly recommended resource Locate this guide at the following website http www11 itrc hp com service home Enter the following part number in the search box to acc...

Page 9: ...perating system and firmware revision information supported for the HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter see the I O Cards and Networking Software website located at http www hp com go hpux iocards docs Click open the Remote Manageability Graphics USB Cards link for current information Figure 1 1 The HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter 1 HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter 2 DVI I conne...

Page 10: ...tor Pinouts Table 1 2 contains a listing of the pins and signals found on the standard 15 pin VGA connector and the DVI I to VGA adapter part number 209815 001 not included in kit Table 1 2 Standard 15 Pin VGA Connector Pinout Signal Pin No RED VIDEO 1 GREEN VIDEO 2 BLUE VIDEO 3 No connection 4 GROUND 5 GROUND 6 GROUND 7 GROUND 8 5V SUPPLY 9 GROUND 10 No connection 11 BI DIRECTIONAL DATA 12 HORIZO...

Page 11: ...ll the HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter To install the module perform the following steps 1 Perform a normal power down of the selected computer system Disconnect the monitor cable 2 Disconnect all AC power cables from the computer chassis to remove power from the system or turn off the circuit breakers if applicable 3 Control any ESD by grounding yourself to the system chassis or cabinet w...

Page 12: ...11 Reconnect the AC power cables to the computer chassis to restore power to the system or turn on circuit breakers if applicable 12 Perform a normal power up of the computer system 12 Installation ...

Page 13: ... Table 3 1 Table 3 1 Supported Video Modes HP OpenVMS I64 Refresh Rates Hertz Color Depths Bits per Pixel Resolution 60 72 75 85 8 16 24 640 x 480 60 72 75 85 8 16 24 800 x 600 60 70 75 85 8 16 24 1024 x 768 60 70 75 85 8 16 24 1024 x 864 60 8 16 24 1152 x 864 60 72 75 85 8 16 24 1280 x 1024 60 65 75 85 8 16 24 1600 x 1200 60 75 8 16 24 1792 x 1344 60 75 8 16 24 1856 x 1392 60 75 8 16 24 1920 x 10...

Page 14: ...ther modify the application or change the default pixel depth For example the PAINT program which ships on DECwindows Motif currently only supports 8 bits per pixel For instructions on changing the pixel depth see Overriding the Default Settings page 16 Multiple Colormaps 8 Bits Per Pixel Multiple colormaps are not supported by the hardware The HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter supports only...

Page 15: ...ingle virtual screen using the XINERAMA extension This is documented in two 2 places in the DECW PRIVATE_SERVER_SETUP COM procedure in the Motif documentation Screen Order and Forcing Single Headed Operation Screen order is determined by the bus ordering of devices and will vary across platforms The DECW PRIVATE_SERVER_SETUP COM file allows the user to override the ordering of screens or to force ...

Page 16: ...ss otherwise noted To override the default settings follow these steps 1 Copy or rename the SYS MANAGER DECW PRIVATE_SERVER_SETUP TEMPLATE file to create a new command com file called DECW PRIVATE_SERVER_SETUP COM 2 Now make the edits for the settings you want to change using a text editor and save the file 3 For the changes to take effect immediately you must restart the X server so that the new ...

Page 17: ... will be applied to all screens If a list of values is provided they are applied to the individual screens in order starting at screen 0 Note that the visual class automatically defaults to PsuedoColor at the 8 depth which is generally what most users want For example to change the visual type to TrueColor add DECW SERVER_DEFAULT_VISUAL_CLASS 4 Server Startup and Configuration Messages Server mess...

Page 18: ... the devices Sometimes this can be caused by KVM switches Look at the contents of SYS MANAGER DECW SERVER_0_ERROR LOG for possible error messages After booting OpenVMS no DECW SERVER process is observed X11 Motif does not start on the graphics display and the screen remains blank Check for valid Motif license using the command LICENSE LIST Check the console log for incorrect SYSGEN parameters or q...

Page 19: ...ntrols Are you connected to the HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter card or to the embedded graphics option The DECW SERVER_0 process is running as is DTGREET but the screen is blank or corrupt Blank or corrupt screen display This type of problem can arise at high resolutions and refresh rates Use only high quality cables and connectors Change orientation of the monitor which may be exposed to...

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Page 21: ... up to date patch version for the Xserver Additionally a patch for the gvid kernel module must be installed on PA RISC systems for the HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter display to be found and claimed by the HP UX OS The kernel patch is not required on the Integrity line of servers The patch version must be at least the following a superseding patch is OK HP UX 11 23 PHSS_41260 or later Xser...

Page 22: ...41260 depot Including the gvid Module in the Kernel To enable graphics on an HP UX server the kernel must have the gvid module configured in it On the Integrity line of servers this will happen automatically when the system is first installed and there is a graphics display detected in the system On the Precision Architecture line of servers or if a graphics display is not initially present this m...

Page 23: ...UX 11 31 and later Select Display Xserver Configuration All graphics cards in the system are listed Select the graphics device that is the current Xserver device This device may or may not be the HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter From the pull down menu select Actions Remove Screen from Configuration Select the new device you would like to be the default Xserver device The new device should ...

Page 24: ... window manager should perform these actions However the application is responsible for providing the window manager with hints as to which colormaps to install or uninstall You provide this information using the following Xlib function XSetWMColormapWindows This function sets the WM_COLORMAP_WINDOWS property for a given window Default Visual Information The HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter...

Page 25: ...hics device to be updated From the pull down menu select Actions Modify Monitor Type A new menu appears that contains all of the possible resolutions and refresh rates Select the new setting and press OK The selected values will be the new resolution and refresh rate for the Xserver NOTE See Table 4 1 page 24 for supported resolution and refresh rates 3 Restart the Xserver Multihead Support By def...

Page 26: ...le dev gvid0 EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Radeon 7000 0 Connector 2 DeviceFile dev gvid0 Screen 1 EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Radeon 7000 1 Connector 1 DeviceFile dev gvid1 EndSection The first device ATI Radeon 7000 0 Connector 1 is the first screen on the first device the second device ATI Radeon 7000 0 Connector 2 is the second screen on the first device Note that it ha...

Page 27: ...ightOf Screen 0 2 InputDevice Mouse0 CorePointer InputDevice Keyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection This ServerLayout has three 3 screens associated with it These screens are accessed through the 0 0 0 1 and 0 2 displays The first screen is associated with the Screen 0 1 section and is the anchor screen at location 0 0 The second screen is associated with the Screen 0 2 section and its screen coordinat...

Page 28: ... up on the HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter display CDE does not start on the graphics display Accelerated 3D is not supported on the HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter Some 3D applications may run through emulation mode at greatly reduced performance 3D applications fail to run or run very slowly OpenGL applications do not work Is the monitor connected to the correct display connectio...

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