setting up 7316-tf2 monitor

[kb134]

We are setting up new server, hardware and software we have installed AIX 4.3.3 and ML 10.We have a new 7316-TF2 rack mounted monitor running through an APEX switch supplied by IBM we keep getting video mode not supported on the screen when we try to use it

Any Ideas why ???

 

[RudiVVC]

Hi!

We had the same problem and it wasted hours of analyzing.

Hop, that the infos fit to your environment:

We discovered, that the APEX-switchbox is not able to transport the complete monitor-info to the pSeries.

If you install a blank machine with original AIX-CDs,
the installationroutine cannot identifiy which resolution can be used.
Our TFT is only capable 1024x768.
AIX-CD uses by default 1280x1024.

So you are able to install the machine while you are in text-mode.
When CDE is started, it uses 1280x1024 and the TFT stays dark!

When you connect a normal monitor (capable of 1280x1024) you will se the CDE-loginscreen.

This behavior can be reproduced by setting up from CDs or from am mksysb-tape.

Our official circumvention: When setting up a machine from CD or mksysb-tape, we directly connect the TFT to the VGA-connector on the machine.

In this case, the correct resolution 1024x768 is recognized and used.

When the system is runing fine, you can connect the TFT over the APEX-switch again.

If you already installed the machine, connect a normal monitor, change the AIX-resolution with smit, then connect the TFT again.

Hope this helps
Rudi

 

[kb134]

Cheers Rudi

Yes you are right after I posted I checked the graphics card and found it set too high so changed it to a resolution supported by the tft screen and all is now fine.

 

[MtheDeuce]

Trying not to sound like Donald Rumsfeld here:

I think I tinkered with the wrong thing here. I believe I was adjusting my video resolution, although at some point my computer (WinXP), upon booting up, will not boot up but instead, goes to a "VIDEO MODE NOT SUPPORTED" screen. The only way I can start it is in the safe mode, whereby I uninstall and reinstall the video driver. The thing then goes to a 60 second countdown, boots up properly, and functions normally until I turn it off again. Then the same thing happens.

I don't have the slightest idea what to do, but I know someone here does. I'm thanking you in advance for your help.

MMaison.




OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name INTENTIONALLY OMITTED System Manufacturer INTELR System Mode

 

[RudiVVC]

Hi!

I think you trapped into a complete wrong forum.
This is the AIX-forum for the lucky ones
fighting with the IBM-UNIX.

My only idea to your XP-problem:
a) Perhaps you have a program in your
registry-run-once-key, that starts at normal startup
and changes your video-resolution.
(Don't ask me, where this key lies in detail.)
b) What programs are started in your AUTOSTART?
Perhaps there is a "resolution-changer"?
c) Try to ask your question within a Windows-XP-forum.

regards
Rudi