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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 12:26 PM

I wanted to upgrade an old Ultra-5 with a PGX32 card.
This is what I did:

Installed packages
TSIpgx.u
TSIpgxw
TSIpgxx.u

Re-installed patch 109154-17.

Powered down the system.

Inserted the PGX32 card.

Switched on the system, and did a
boot -r

Got extra message
gfxp: [ID 722914 kern.notice] TSI: gfxp0 is GFX8P @ 115
2x900

But I had the monitor still on the builtin graphics card.
Connecting to the PGX32 card resulted in a dark screen.

Checked that OBP version was 3.11.6, and thought that this
might need an upgrade.
I found the jumper JP2 and changed it to the other position.
But booting the /flash-update-Ultra510-latest said "the Flash
Rom write-enable is not set".
I verified with the .ps file that the JP2 jumper is correct,
but regardless in which position or totally removed:
"write-enable is not set".

What step have I missed?
Do I need to upgrade the OBP at all?

--
Michael Tosch
IT Specialist
HP Managed Services Germany
Phone +49 2407 575 313
Mail: michael.tosch:hp.com

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 12:27 PM

Wow,
That's an old OBP! I don't know if that's a required upgrade for adding a
pgx32 but I would definitely do it anyway.

To use the pgx32, all you should have to do is set the output device in OBP
to it.
So do something like this:

1) Run "show-devs" from OBP and look for the path to the pgx32
2) Create an alias for this board: "nvalias screen1 /path/to/pgx32/device"
3) "setenv output-device screen1"
4) "reset"

That should do it.

good luck,
Jonathan

"Michael Tosch" <eedmit@NO.eed.SPAM.ericsson.PLS.se> wrote in message
news:c7dvrc$j57$1@aken.eed.ericsson.se...
> I wanted to upgrade an old Ultra-5 with a PGX32 card.
> This is what I did:
>
> Installed packages
> TSIpgx.u
> TSIpgxw
> TSIpgxx.u
>
> Re-installed patch 109154-17.
>
> Powered down the system.
>
> Inserted the PGX32 card.
>
> Switched on the system, and did a
> boot -r
>
> Got extra message
> gfxp: [ID 722914 kern.notice] TSI: gfxp0 is GFX8P @ 115
> 2x900
>
> But I had the monitor still on the builtin graphics card.
> Connecting to the PGX32 card resulted in a dark screen.
>
> Checked that OBP version was 3.11.6, and thought that this
> might need an upgrade.
> I found the jumper JP2 and changed it to the other position.
> But booting the /flash-update-Ultra510-latest said "the Flash
> Rom write-enable is not set".
> I verified with the .ps file that the JP2 jumper is correct,
> but regardless in which position or totally removed:
> "write-enable is not set".
>
> What step have I missed?
> Do I need to upgrade the OBP at all?
>
> --
> Michael Tosch
> IT Specialist
> HP Managed Services Germany
> Phone +49 2407 575 313
> Mail: michael.tosch:hp.com
>
>

#3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 12:38 PM

Michael Tosch wrote:
> I wanted to upgrade an old Ultra-5 with a PGX32 card.
> This is what I did:
>
> Installed packages
> TSIpgx.u
> TSIpgxw
> TSIpgxx.u
>
> Re-installed patch 109154-17.
>
> Powered down the system.
>
> Inserted the PGX32 card.
>
> Switched on the system, and did a
> boot -r
>
> Got extra message
> gfxp: [ID 722914 kern.notice] TSI: gfxp0 is GFX8P @ 115
> 2x900
>
> But I had the monitor still on the builtin graphics card.
> Connecting to the PGX32 card resulted in a dark screen.
>
> Checked that OBP version was 3.11.6, and thought that this
> might need an upgrade.
> I found the jumper JP2 and changed it to the other position.
> But booting the /flash-update-Ultra510-latest said "the Flash
> Rom write-enable is not set".
> I verified with the .ps file that the JP2 jumper is correct,
> but regardless in which position or totally removed:
> "write-enable is not set".
>
> What step have I missed?
> Do I need to upgrade the OBP at all?
>
go out to docs.sun.com, you need to change some of the eeprom variables
to disable the on board m64 framebuffer and redirect the video to the
pci slot where your pgx framebuffer is located.

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