Installation Guide - HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter

Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
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graphics 0 0/3/1/0 gvid_core CLAIMED INTERACE PCI Display (10025159)
2. Display the contents of /dev/gvid_info by executing the following command:
cat /dev/gvid_info
The following output should appear. There should be one line (i.e. one device file) for every
graphics device in the systems bus:
/dev/gvid0
/dev/gvid1
3. Determine the association of physical graphics cards to special device files (/dev/gvid?)
by running the command:
/opt/graphics/common/bin/setmon -N /dev/gvid0
If the device is the HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter card, the output should
look like:
Device /dev/gvid0 is a ATI Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter
You will also see this output for various integrated and manageability card displays.
HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter as Default Xserver Device
The program utility sam (pre HP-UX 11.31 release) or smh can be used to make the HP PCI AMD
Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter the default Xserver device. This is for a single-screen Xserver
configuration. For a multihead Xserver configuration, see “Multihead Support” (page 25).
1. Login as root.
2. Run /usr/sbin/sam (pre HP-UX 11.31 release) or /usr/sbin/smh (HP-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 be one of the HP PCI AMD Radeon
7000 Graphics Adapter device entries. From the pull down menu, select Actions->Add
Screen to Configuration.
3. Restart the Xserver.
Resolutions
The HP PCI AMD Radeon 7000 Graphics Adapter can support various graphics resolutions and
refresh rates as shown in Table 4–1. If your monitor supports the DDC/EDID protocol, the EDID
information from the monitor will override which resolutions are available.
Table 4-1 Standard Supported Video Modes — HP-UX
Refresh Rates
Color Depths
(Bits per Pixel)
Resolution
60, 70, 75, 85Hz8, 241024 x 768
60, 75, 85Hz8, 241280 x 1024
60, 65, 75, 85Hz8, 241600 x 1200
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