Re: OpenVMS Integrity Graphics card questions

johnhreinhardt@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I can't seem to find the discussions at the moment but it seems to me
that it's been said that OpenVMS Integrity will not support the DVI
port on an ATI Radeon 7000 graphics card. I also think it was said
that it won't support a second head on the same card ( Mine has one VGA
and one DVI). Can anyone verify this?

The Radeon 700 PCI cards are not supported, though I've seen reports they work on some Alpha boxes -- the particular one I've seen has had some minor display artifact. The supported cards for Integrity are the HP Radeon 7500 PCI cards.

The VGA port is the usual connection, though IIRC, the DVI can potentially be gotten to work in some cases. (The one I have seen uses the VGA path into an HP TFT-class LCD display, though this was on an AlphaStation series and not on an Integrity server.)

Off the top, I don't know that the DVI port is officially supported.

NB: there are a bunch of different Radeon 7x00 cards around, and obviously for AGP and PCI, and obviously from various hardware vendors. YMMV.


If you get an Integrity system without the Management Processor, I
assume you can put a Radeon in one of the PCI slots. Will OpenVMS
Integrity support anything besides the 7000? Doesn't the 7500 also
work?

The HP Radeon 7500 PCI is the supported graphics card.

The Management Processor (MP) is very useful for reasons other than the embedded Radeon 7000 graphics, and it's certainly the way I'd go here -- and it also obviously doesn't occupy a PCI slot.

I've read that the AGP slot (on the otherwise unsupported ZX6000) will
not work and I'm pretty sure it has been said that it won't be.

OpenVMS has no support for the AGP on Integrity, as there are no supported Integrity boxes with AGP. (The zx2000 and zx6000 systems are not officially supported as they entirely pre-date the OpenVMS port to Integrity, but some of these configurations have been seen to work. But not the AGP.) And the bulk of the graphics universe is rapidly moving off AGP, and typically over to PCIe 16x slots.

Is there any work planned for any kind of graphics solutions for the
Integrity systems in VMS (Other than the Radeon 7000/7500)?

The current OpenVMS systems are unfortunately PCI only for graphics, and I'm not in a position to discuss PCI-X or PCIe or graphics futures in general -- beyond anything that might be included in the OpenVMS roadmap, obviously. (And I haven't looked at/for this detail in the current roadmap -- I'm downloading a copy of that document from the website right now, however.)

If you want support, you will want the HP Radeon 7500 PCI card, or you will want to use the Radeon 7000 embedded in the Integrity Management Processor (MP). And you will likely want (should this be for use in an office environment) one of the so-called office-friendly (eg: quiet) rx2600 or rx2620 series systems.

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