[Info-vax] How to MOTIF?

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER]

In article <b6515a1d-c65f-4ecd-bcce-a4dc084698b3 at v39g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, urbancamo <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> writes:
>>You'll have to pull it to be sue - if it's in the AGP slot you're out
>of luck. Alternatively, you can probably list the devices by examining
>output from an appropriate EFI command.

and this command is what? And how to interpret the output? (numbers?)

>> >(I doubt that I have a keyboard or mouse connected to that one
>> >now, which may explain the "offline" status.)
>>
>> Why do you think, that the status of (USB) mouse and keyboard is related
>> to the status of a (PCI) graphics adapter?
>
>This may be down to the fact that without the USB keyboard plugged in
>you get a very cryptic error message just after boot up and the system
>halts.

And there is no such parameter in the firmware to switch to allow the
system to complete the POST successfully even when no kbd attached?
(On earlier DEC3000/Alphas one had to shorten 2 pins on the kbd connector
to make this happen, later Alphas had a SRM parameter IIRC)

>       I also know that every PS2->USB adapter with a connected PS2
>keyboard I've tried *does not* fulfill this requirement.

This may be to the fact, that a PS2->USB adapter isn't really one.
It only converts the connector. The (totally different) logic in the
kbd must be able to support USB and PS2. You can't use a simple/old PS2
keyboard with a PS2->USB converter (as it misses the logic for USB inside).

>                                                          So unlike an
>RX2600 you have to have a keyboard permanently attached, even if you
>use the box remotely.

That should be easy to try. Will do...

Thanks again
-- 
Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTÖGER
Network and OpenVMS system specialist
E-mail  Peter at LANGSTOeGER.at
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