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

[FredK]

>>
>>   What is "the internal graphic device"?
>
> So, I take this as there is no such device, and there must be an add-in
> card (maybe AGP, but surely DVI ;-) in my system. How to find out what it 
> is?
> My system is not here now and is also not online, sigh...
>

The "internal graphics device" is part of the management processor option. 
So if you have a management processor option (which was optional - 
especially for the zx6000) you have one - otherwise you do not.

>>   I know nothing, but I thought that the big difference
>>between a zx6000 and an rx2600 was an AGP slot on the zx6000.
>
> AGP Slot and internal graphics device are not mutually exclusive, I think.
>

They are not.  The AGP option slot is simply a different card cage (which 
pops out).

>>(Can VMS use an AGP Radeon card in a zx6000?)
>
> No (as FredK told us here years ago)
>

I've *have* heard of someone doing it... but there is no explicit AGP 
support for the box.  It might work, it might not - certainly no AGP 
functionality will be enabled.

>
>>(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?
>

The original design of DECwindows back on the VAX was an integrated set of 
drivers.  There was an assumption that there MUST be *one* mouse, *one* 
keyboard and one or more graphics heads.  DECwindows will not start without 
them all.

Now, the thing that fools people is that until the USB bus all VMS needed to 
see was the *controller* (except on some VAXstations that used the KB 
presence to determine server vs workstation).  So mostly it wasn't the 
physical device but the controller to the device - which used to be serial 
ports, and then PS2 controllers.

With the USB unless a KB and Mouse are plugged in AND configured - there 
aren't devices - and there aren't drivers loaded for them.  So you get the 
15 second wait for the USB devices to show up if they aren't there.

In V8.4 we change this to support vKVM in iLO.  Graphics can start without a 
KB/Mouse and multiple KB/Mice can be connected to a single server instance. 
That means that USB switches that simply connect/disconnect the USB ports 
(connectPro, etc) will work with LK4xx USB keyboards.  It also means that 
auxiliary keypads or pointing devices can be connected.  This enables the 
vKVM functionality in iLO - which is called the "Integrated Console" in the 
applet - so from a web browser you can connect to an enabled Integrity 
system and see the VGA display on the PC and type into it as if you were on 
a locally connected KB and VGA.