Verification of Hardware Installation
After the ATI RADEON 7500 graphics controller has been installed and the system has rebooted, verify
the graphics card was correctly installed and identify which device file corresponds to which card.
1. Run the command
ioscan –fun –C graphics
Output similar to the following should appear. There should be one line for every graphics
device in the system. Each device should have gvid_core for a driver and the S/W State
should be CLAIMED.
Class
I H/W Path
graphics
0 0/3/1/0
(10025157)
graphics
1 0/6/2/0
(10025159)
2. Display the contents of /dev/gvid_info by running the command
cat /dev/gvid_info
Output similar to the following should appear. There should be one line (i.e. one device file) for
every graphics device in the system.
/dev/gvid0
/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 program sam can be used to make the ATI RADEON 7500 graphics controller the default Xserver
device. This is for a single-screen Xserver configuration. For a multihead Xserver configuration, see
"Multihead Support" on page 20.
1. Log in as root
2. Run /usr/sbin/sam. Choose
are listed. Choose the graphics device that is the current Xserver device. This device may or
may not be the ATI RADEON 7500. From the pull-down menu, select
from Configuration
new device should be one of the ATI RADEON 7500 device entries. From the pull-down menu,
choose
Actions->Add Screen to Configuration
3. Restart the Xserver.
Chapter 4
ATI RADEON 7500 PCI Graphics Controller Installation Guide
Driver
gvid_core
gvid_core
Display->Xserver Configuration
. Choose the new device you would like to be the default Xserver device. The
S/W State H/W Type
CLAIMED INTERACE
CLAIMED INTERACE
. All graphics cards in the system
.
HP-UX Configuration
Description
PCI Display
PCI Display
Actions->Remove Screen
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