[Info-vax] (topic change to rx2600)

[fhsjvl at gmail.com]

On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 12:26:26 PM UTC+2, MG wrote:
> Op 8-jun-2016 fhsjvl:
 the rx2600 are
> > essentially the same system.
> 
> There are some differences, at least in so far I remember from
> reading both of the systems' the manuals, but highly likely none
> to (the typical) 'end-user'.  I think one of the differences was
> in the 'memory cell' design, but it's been years since I read
> these manuals, so I don't know for sure.
> 
> 
> > It is not entirely correct that the zx6000 "mixed AGP+PCI-X cage
> > backplane riser board" is "essentially of zero use to VMS". When
> > a PCI Radeon graphics card is present in slot 2 or 3 then an AGP
> > Radeon graphics card in slot 1 (the AGP slot) will work correctly
> > with VMS.
> 
> I should have spoken for myself.  For me it was of zero use and
> I never got that combination to work, now you remind me because
> I think I did try this combination once (when I may have obtained
> an AGP Radeon card, by accident likely, and I also remember
> reading on Hoffman's site that it's a minefield, anything
> involving AGP and as far as solid support by VMS goes).
> 
> I also saw no reason to have a 'dual-head' setup in combination
> with DECwindows, since I mostly used the excellent CLI anyway.
> 
> 
> > On the other hand, when a Management Processor (whichhas the
> > es1000, a basic kind of Radeon) is present, the AGP Radeon
> > card will be disabled automacitally.
> 
> I remember that if there was another graphics card present, the
> on-board MP/iLO graphics adapter was disabled.  I was also not
> aware that there were MP/iLO cards with anything other than the
> Radeon 7000 for rx2600s, rx2620s or even the rx4640 (the only
> IA-64 hardware I personally ever dealt with).
> 
>   - MG

Error in my previous post indeed: when AGP and MP are present, the MP graphics is disabled (not the AGP).

Other error in my previous post: es1000 is the graphics adapter in the MP of the rx3600/rx6600/rx2660/rx2800 i2 and i4. The MP of the zx6000/rx2600 has Radeon 7000 as graphics adapter.