[jwhat]

Hi SGi'ers,

I decided to boot up my SGI boxes the other day to see if they where all working ok and I have got an issue with my Octane2 V12.

The machines boots, but every time it goes into graphics (startgfx) the screen goes blank and I get no graphics, so its an SNGI Octane2.

I have done some checking including:

1. Tested LCD on another computer at same resolution (1600x1200 @ 60) - ok
2. Cleared /var/X11/Xvc/Odyssey0_TimingTable to force it to go to default resolution - still get blank graphics
3. Booted into "single" mode and did a reset of monitor resolution /usr/gfx/setmon -x 1600x1200_60 - reports ok but on reboot still blank
4. Pulled out entire XTALK assembly and reseated it and verified that all card are identifying ok via hinv -mv - all ok but still blank graphics on reboot
5. Verified that X Window (xdm & graphics) have started ok, by connecting to it from another machine "X -query MY-BOX" - all ok I can use machine remotely
6. Tested with an alternate LCD (SGI F180 I think) - same problem

So it seems that something has gone wrong with VPro V12.
This one also has DCD in it and was all running ok (6 or 12 months ok... can't remember when I last used it)

So I am looking for the mythical ODYSSEY/VPRO Diagnotics Disk so I can run diagnostic on my machine (there is no /usr/diags directory)

This is likely only community that will have this (Ian M any chance you have one of these ...)

As last step I will remove the DCD and try with analog cable to see if this helps.

On another note I have put Linux L3 / L2 Simulator CD here: https://www.graphica.com.au/files/CD-IST_3.24.tar.gz , I think this should be added into IRIX downloads as it is helpful for people with O300/300 series machines.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Cheers from OZ:

jwhat