ATI RADEON 7500 PCI Graphics Controller
Installation Guide
First Edition
Revision A
Manufacturing Part Number: AB551-96002 –
April 2005
© Copyright 2004-2005 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
Page 1: ...TI RADEON 7500 PCI Graphics Controller Installation Guide First Edition Revision A Manufacturing Part Number AB551 96002 Revision A April 2005 Copyright 2004 2005 Hewlett Packard Development Company L P ...
Page 2: ...t to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express limited warranty statements accompanying 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 i ...
Page 3: ...Transformation Clipping and Lighting Support 10 Threads Restriction 10 No Backing Store Save Under for 3D Windows 10 Multiple Graphics Cards Support 10 Multi Screen Versus XINERAMA 10 Screen Order and Forcing Single Headed Operation 11 Modifying the Graphics Configuration 11 ATI RADEON 7500 Default Graphics Settings 11 Determining Current Settings 11 Overriding the Default Settings 11 Server Start...
Page 4: ...o Change the Resolution and Refresh Rate 19 Multihead Support 20 Dual screen 20 XF86Config Changes 20 Messages 22 Troubleshooting 22 FIGURES 1 1 ATI RADEON 7500 PCI Graphics Controller 2 TABLES 1 1 Option Numbers 1 1 2 Standard 15 Pin VGA Connector Pinout 3 3 1 Supported Video Modes OpenVMS 7 3 2 Troubleshooting Criteria 13 4 1 Standard Supported Video Modes HP UX 18 4 2 Troubleshooting Criteria 2...
Page 5: ... required to support 2D two dimensional and 3D graphics with the ATI RADEON 7500 PCI graphics controllers under the HP OpenVMS I64 operating system Chapter 4 HP UX Graphics Software Installation and Customization provides information for installing and modifying the software required to support 2D two dimensional graphics with the ATI RADEON 7500 PCI graphics controllers under the HP UX operating ...
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Page 8: ...ics acceleration for supported HP systems running HP OpenVMS I64 and 2D for supported HP UX systems The ATI RADEON 7500 graphic card is based on ATI s RV200 graphics chip Table 1 1 Option Numbers Option Description AB551A ATI RADEON 7500 PCI graphics controller with 64 MB of DDR SDRAM memory For current minimum operating system and firmware revision information supported for the ATI RADEON 7500 gr...
Page 9: ...t supported by either OpenVMS or HP UX There is no VGA switch VGA functions are automatically configured through the console firmware and software DVI I to VGA Connector Adaptor OpenVMS does not support direct DVI to DVI operation on the ATI RADEON 7500 card The DVI port is only useable by using a DVI to analog VGA adapter or cable this part was supplied on the AlphaServer version of the card but ...
Page 10: ...nnector and the DVI I to VGA adaptor part number 209815 001 not included in kit Table 1 2 Standard 15 Pin VGA Connector Pinout Pin No Signal 1 RED VIDEO 2 GREEN VIDEO 3 BLUE VIDEO 4 No connector 5 GROUND 6 GROUND 7 GROUND 8 GROUND 9 5V SUPPLY 10 GROUND 11 No connector 12 BI DIRECTIONAL DATA 13 HORIZONTAL SYNC or COMPOSITE SYNC 14 VERTICAL SYNC VCLK 15 DATA CLOCK Chapter 1 3 ...
Page 11: ...Overview ATI RADEON 7500 PCI Graphics Controller Installation Guide This Page Intentionally Left Blank 4 Chapter 1 ...
Page 12: ...and supported features offered by the ATI RADEON 7500 PCI graphics controllers The following section describes how to install the ATI RADEON 7500 PCI graphics controller To install the module perform the following steps 1 Perform a normal power down of your computer system and disconnect the monitor cable 2 Disconnect all AC power cables from the wall outlet or turn off the circuit breakers if app...
Page 13: ...the monitor cable is connected to the video output connector located on the back of the graphics option 11 Reconnect the AC power cables to the wall outlet or turn on the circuit breakers if applicable to your system to restore power to the system 12 Perform a normal power up of your computer system 13 If the system is an HP UX system you must switch the system console over to a serial console See...
Page 14: ... PCI graphics controller is capable of supporting the graphics resolutions color depths and refresh rates shown in Table 3 1 Table 3 1 Supported Video Modes OpenVMS Resolution Color Depths Bits per Pixel Refresh Rates Hertz 640 x 480 8 16 24 60 72 75 85 800 x 600 8 16 24 60 72 75 85 1024 x 768 8 16 24 60 70 75 85 1024 x 864 8 16 24 60 70 75 85 1152 x 864 8 16 24 60 1280 x 1024 8 16 24 60 72 75 85 ...
Page 15: ...into the lower slot RX2600 No restrictions Up to four ATI RADEON 7500 cards may be placed in any of the slots RX4640 Up to 4 ATI RADEON 7500 cards may be used with restrictions on the use of slots 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 o One card in slot 3 or 4 but not both o One card in slot 5 or 6 but not both o One card in slot 7 o One card in slot 8 If ATI RADEON 7500 cards are plugged into slot 3 and 4 or 5 and...
Page 16: ...available The default visual types are TrueColor for 16 and 24 bits per pixel and PseudoColor for 8 bits per pixel For information on changing the default visual see Overriding the Default Settings on page 11 PCI Bus Performance Under Load Under heavy load typically mixed high output 2D and 3D the RADEON 7500 may consume too much bus bandwidth and has been observed to sometimes hang the graphics o...
Page 17: ...The embedded graphics typically found on HP Integrity systems is based on the ATI RADEON 7000 and also provides 3D capability but does not have TCL hardware capability Threads Restriction The RADEON 7500 Mesa3D library for OpenVMS is not thread safe However Mesa3D can be used in a multithreaded program if the use of Mesa3D is restricted to a single thread within the program No Backing Store Save U...
Page 18: ...EM DECW SERVER_PIXEL_DEPTH SHOW LOGICAL SYSTEM DECW SERVER_REFRESH_RATE SHOW LOGICAL TABLE DECW SERVER DECW XSIZE_IN_PIXELS SHOW LOGICAL TABLE DECW SERVER DECW YSIZE_IN_PIXELS SHOW LOGICAL TAB DECW SERVER DECW SERVER_DEFAULT_VISUAL_CLASS If any logical name is not defined then the respective default is in effect You can also confirm the settings and any errors in the setup by examining the server ...
Page 19: ...o the default logical names redefine them in the DECW PRIVATE_SERVER_SETUP COM file These changes will supersede the values assigned in the device configuration file Many common items are changed by symbolic values in this file however items are graphics card specific and are modified by defining system logical names The settings include the following items DECW XSIZE_IN_PIXELS DECW YSIZE_IN_PIXEL...
Page 20: ...ouse connected Both must be connected when X11 Motif is started Messages will be displayed on the console for 15 seconds waiting for the devices This can sometimes be caused by KVM switches Look at the contents of SYS MANAGER DECW SERVER_0_ ERROR LOG for possible error messages No Motif login box is displayed After booting OpenVMS DECW SERVER is running but there is no login box Check for a valid ...
Page 21: ...ed using their front panel controls Are you connected to the ATI RADEON 7500 or to the embedded graphics option Visual noise or anomalies on the screen Flashes of dots or other random artifacts on the screen At high resolutions and refresh rates this type of problem can arise Use only high quality cables and connectors Re orient the monitor which may be seeing RF interference Lower the refresh rat...
Page 22: ...1 Log into the HP patch catalog The URL is www2 itrc hp com service patch mainPage do 2 Go to the find a specific patch search enter PHSS_31252 and press Enter This brings up a new screen If there is a newer patch that supersedes this patch it will be listed under the Most Recent heading You will need to download the newest patch 3 Click in the box next to the patch and click the add to selected p...
Page 23: ...le Add a Boot Option Delete Boot Option s Change Boot Order Manage NextBoot setting Set Auto Boot TimeOut Select Active Console Output Devices Select Active Console Input Devices Select Active Standard Error Devices Cold Reset Exit 4 Choose Select Active Console Output Devices and press Enter This brings up a new menu of possible devices The current device s are marked with a The option you will c...
Page 24: ...d0 dev gvid1 3 Determine the association of physical graphics cards to special device files dev gvid by running the command Setmon N dev gvid0 The output should look something like Device dev gvid0 is a ATI Radeon 7000 Ii the device is the Manageability card or Device dev gvid0 is a ATI Radeon 7500 QW if the device is the ATI RADEON 7500 graphics card ATI RADEON 7500 as Default Xserver Device The ...
Page 25: ...is V1 0 on HP Itanium Integrity systems Multiple Colormaps Multiple colormaps are not supported The ATI RADEON 7500 graphics controllers support only one installed colormap at one time Exceeding this limit will cause colormap flashing also known as Technicolor Applications should not install or de install colormaps themselves The window manager should perform these actions However the application ...
Page 26: ...esolution or refresh rate Current Graphics Resolution The default graphics resolution and refresh rate are 1280x1024 at 75Hz The current graphics resolution and refresh rate of a running system can be obtained by executing the command opt graphics common bin setmon p How to Change the Resolution and Refresh Rate 1 Log in to the system as root 2 Run usr sbin sam Choose Display Monitor Configuration...
Page 27: ...vice files dev gvid0 and dev gvid1 We will change the XF86Config file to allow for a three screened multihead system The first graphics card e g dev gvid0 is dual screened and the second graphics card is single screened The lowest level is the Device section This maps a physical device to a device identifier The three Device sections for this example are as follows Section Device Identifier ATI Ra...
Page 28: ...Screen sections set up you can set up the ServerLayout section The ServerLayout section uses the Identifier field that was defined for each of the Screen sections The ServerLayout section describes all of the screens used by the Xserver The ServerLayout section for this example is as follows Section ServerLayout Identifier Main Layout Screen 0 Screen 0 1 0 0 Screen 1 Screen 0 2 RightOf Screen 0 1 ...
Page 29: ...tput at the EFI level CDE does not start on the graphics display After booting CDE does not come up on the ATI Radeon 7500 display Is a keyboard and mouse attached The Xserver will not start unless a mouse and keyboard are attached Is the Xserver configured with the correct dev gvid devices OpenGL applications do not work 3D applications fail to run or run very slowly Accelerated 3D is not support...
