Rastergraf Topaz, User Manual

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Rastergraf
4-22 Installing Your Rastergraf Graphics Board
Connecting to a TopazPMC/2x or StratusPMC/2x
If you have a DVI-capable Topaz or Stratus and wish only to use the DVI
monitor, plug your DVI monitor cable into the DVI-I connector on the
front panel. If you wish to use only the primary VGA instead, plug a DVI-
VGA adapter into the DVI connector and connect the other end to the
VGA cable.
If you wish use some combination of VGAs and DVI, then use the DVI-I
Breakout cable to connect to DVI or the VGA channels.
4.7.2 Checking your Display
Note
The boards can supply 3 Wire (RGB with sync on green, BNC connectors)
or 5 Wire Video (RGBHV, VGA connector). Rastergraf software defaults
to 5 Wire Video (NO sync on green).
Be aware that if you connect a board that has video parameters set up for
sync on green to a VGA compatible monitor you will get a green
background on the display.
This is an interesting problem. If you have a Sun SPARC or PC, the BIOS
firmware in the graphics board will be invoked and you will get some sort
of display on power-up.
But, if you have a PowerPC system running VxWorks, you will not get
any visual indication that the board is operational until you load and run
some graphics board-specific software like SDL or X Windows.
If you have such a system and are ever in doubt about whether the board
really works, you would be well advised to plug it into a PMC to PCI
carrier and plug it into a PC to try it out.
Please proceed to the next section.