Octane upgrade from ESI to V6

Eric Belhomme · *nix forums beginner Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 31

Hi,

I just upgraded my Octane (Irix 6.5.11, PROM 4.5) from an ESI gfx card to
a nice V6 gfx Smile

My config meets the requirements for a V6 card, Irix and PROM revision
recent enough, the PSU is Cherokee

But I get some troubles, I don't know if it is normal :

The Octane boots up, so I can go to the system maintenance. a hinv
command says me there is a "ODYSSEY" card. So the V6 is well recognised.
Moreover... I can see the screen, isn't it ? ;)

But when I booting up Irix, The display seems to be frozen...
I have to describe my install :
- my monitor is a LCD Samsung 930BF that support SOG (it worked with the
ESI and my Indy)
- there is a 4 ports KVM switch (I also have an Indy, and a peecee)

So I said the display seems to be frozen, because I get messagebox saying
Irix is booting up, and this never change, even after many minutes... And
if I switch on over machine with the KVM then switch again on the Octane,
the monitor seems to go out-of-sync !
The systems seems to be up (it answers pings) and I can stop it cleanily
by pressing the power button.

Someone told me about the necessity of reinstalling gfx libs when
upgrading from SI to Vpro cards, (I didn't done it) so I would know if it
could be the cause of this problem ? In any case, I'll reinstall Irix
from scratch...

Another question, regarding the keyboard : I'm using a French keyboard,
connected to the KVM, so it' s peecee keyboard (Logitech cordless) and
there is strange behavior with it on Irix... for example the numeric
keypad dosn't work (the "ver num" produces a '/', etc. Is there a
workaround for that ?

regards,

--
Rico

Joerg Behrens · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 106

Eric Belhomme schrieb:

Emmanuel Florac · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 21 May 2005 Posts: 109

Le Thu, 01 Jun 2006 07:52:48 +0000, Eric Belhomme a écrit :

Eric Belhomme · *nix forums beginner Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 31

Joerg Behrens <behrens@takenet.de> wrote in
news:4e7lqsF1d8moeU1@individual.net:

Albrecht Jacobs · *nix forums beginner Joined: 01 Jun 2006 Posts: 2

Emmanuel Florac schrieb:

Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 139

In article <Xns97D564816CDC8ericbelhommefreefr@212.27.42.136>,
Eric Belhomme <{rico}+no/spam@ricospirit.net> wrote:

: Someone told me about the necessity of reinstalling gfx libs when
: upgrading from SI to Vpro cards, (I didn't done it) so I would know if it
: could be the cause of this problem ? In any case, I'll reinstall Irix
: from scratch...

in inst, use the following:

keep *
install stale

then open whatever media you need to resolve the conflicts, usually the
foundation CDs plus the current overlays.

Cheers - Tony 'NIcoya' Mantler :)

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Eric Belhomme · *nix forums beginner Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 31

Albrecht Jacobs <albrecht.jacobs@freenet.de> wrote in news:447eca0c$0$9375
$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de:

Eric Belhomme · *nix forums beginner Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 31

Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler <nicoya@ubb.ca> wrote in news:nicoya-
C75437.12152901062006@shawnews.wp.shawcable.net:

Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 139

In article <Xns97D65B4A7551Eericbelhommefreefr@212.27.42.201>,
Eric Belhomme <{rico}+no/spam@ricospirit.net> wrote:

: Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler <nicoya@ubb.ca> wrote in news:nicoya-
: C75437.12152901062006@shawnews.wp.shawcable.net:
:
: > install stale
:
: why stale ? the "help keywords" didn't helped me to understand...

From inst(1M):

stale All installed subsystems on the target that must be
re-installed due to hardware changes.

fresh The subset of stale subsystems that are also on the
current distribution. For example, the command
install fresh may be used to re-install software that
has been affected by a hardware upgrade.

Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :)

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