[Info-vax] [zx6000] How to MOTIF?

[Steven Schweda]

Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER wrote:

> I've a zx6000 w/o MP and like to use MOTIF (local). Is there some way
> to use the internal graphic device for DECwindow server?

   What is "the internal graphic device"?

   I know nothing, but I thought that the big difference
between a zx6000 and an rx2600 was an AGP slot on the zx6000.
(Can VMS use an AGP Radeon card in a zx6000?)

> I used to run VMS on it only via the serial console so far, but I think
> I read in one of the articles over the last months here that there is some
> entry for SYS$DEVICES.DAT to use the internal graphic (what is this?
> how to find out?) for X11 (I'm pretty sure, I read about the limited
> graphic capabilities of the service processor, but alas, there is none)
> But I may have dreamed (and won't find what I'm looking for ;-)

   I have a PCI Radeon 7500 card in my zx2000 (and no MP), and,
while I don't normally use it, I believe that it worked when I
tried it.

IT $ show devi /full G

Device GHA0:, device type DECwindows output device, is online, record-
oriented
    device, carriage control, shareable.

    Error count                    0    Operations
completed                 17
    Owner process                 ""    Owner UIC
[SYSTEM]
    Owner process ID        00000000    Dev Prot
S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G:RWPL,W:RWPL
    Reference count                1    Default buffer
size                   0

   I'm away from the systems at the moment, but I believe that
my rx2600 systems, which do have the MP, use its Radeon 7000.
>From what I can see from here, I may have stuck a loose PCI
Radeon 7500 into one of those, too:

REX $ show devi /full G

Device GHA0:, device type DECwindows output device, is offline, record-
oriented
    device, carriage control, shareable.

    Error count                    0    Operations
completed                  0
    Owner process                 ""    Owner UIC
[SYSTEM]
    Owner process ID        00000000    Dev Prot
S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G:RWPL,W:RWPL
    Reference count                0    Default buffer
size                   0

Device GHB0:, device type DECwindows output device, is offline, record-
oriented
    device, carriage control, shareable.

    Error count                    0    Operations
completed                  0
    Owner process                 ""    Owner UIC
[SYSTEM]
    Owner process ID        00000000    Dev Prot
S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G:RWPL,W:RWPL
    Reference count                0    Default buffer
size                   0

(I doubt that I have a keyboard or mouse connected to that one
now, which may explain the "offline" status.)

> PS: It's getting harder and harder to find useful current technical info
> in COV (it seems, there is now really ITRC taking over - WWW vs USENET?)...

   Too many (that is, more than zero) comp.os.vms posters seem
to be socially isolated morons, who get more value from a
social networking experience than from a technical forum, and
see no harm in degrading/destroying this one.  Past similar
complaints have been accused of abridging free speech, and then
ignored.  I wish it were otherwise, but my expectations for
improvement are very low.

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