[Info-vax] What video card for a DS10?

[Tom Adams]

On Oct 9, 9:04 am, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tom Adams wrote:
> > $ show dev g/full
>
> > Device GQA0:, device type DECwindows output device, is online, record-
> > oriented
> > [...]
> > I as still wondering, too.
>
>    Did I say "/FULL"?
>
>    On my system, there's a file,
> SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]DECW$DEVICE_CONFIG_GQ.COM
> which offers some hints as to which card(s) it might be used
> with.  There's also a mention of "gq" in
> SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]DECW$SPECIAL_AS1000_CIRRUS.COM
> but I suspect that this would not apply to a DS10.
> SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]SYS$CONFIG.DAT mentions "GQ" a few times,
> too.  To me, these all look like cheap and nasty cards.
>
>      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Mach
>
> > Is there any way to do a orderly shutdown without the monitor?
>
>    SET HOST?  Telnet?  RSH?  SSH?  Serial terminal

I'll be damned! I thought SET HOST did not work.  I think I got that
idea
because I tried it from a non-priv process on the same machine.

>
>    You might even try "@ SYS$MANAGER:DECW$STARTUP RESTART"
> before whacking the system completely.  But if you do shut it
> down, I'd go for a complete power cycle, just in case the
> hardware is in some odd state.
>
> > How can I switch over to monitoring via the serial port?
>
>    I know approximately nothing about a DS10, but if you
> unplug its keyboard and mouse, then It'd expect it to talk to
> one of its serial ports, irregardful of what the console
> setting is.  But I suspect that its console has a SET CONSOLE
> command.