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Conference bgsdev::multimedia_services

Title:	Multimedia Services
Notice:	Latest kit is always in hitujr::"/pub/"
Moderator:	BGSDEV::MORRIS

Created:	Fri Jul 02 1993
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	505
Total number of notes:	2097

505.0. "problem with AV300 on Alpha OpenVMS" by HGOV05::MICHAELWAN () Wed Jun 04 1997 05:35

I have an Alpha 3000-800 workstation and the system is running OpenVMS 6.2 
and I believe that the graphic card is AV300-AA (Turbo Channel). 

The system's X-Windows works fine for remote workstations but I cannot
bring up the console workstation. I have got advise from the VMS notes
conference that I need to install 'DEC AXPVMS MMOV V2.0'. I did that but
the console workstation still cannot work.

When I did '$ decw$device', the message was:
-->
    %DECW$DEVICE-W-NODEVICE, no graphics devices found.

The output of '$show dev g /full' was:
-->
Device GPA0:, device type DECwindows output device, is offline, record-oriented
    device, carriage control, shareable.

I checked the system and noticed that the mmov$server process was running and 
there was no error message in the log file.

I am sure that the graphic card is OK, since I can run X-windows with 
multi-media service installed on Digital UNIX with another drive.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
505.1	No graphics card	BGSDEV::CDANCY	Chip Dancy	`Thu Jun 05 1997 16:15`	10
	The AV300-AA is not a graphics card; it is a analog video capture and audio card used to capture video/audio for the Multimedia Services product. You must have your console plugged into something else, that perhaps is broken, and not recognized by the operating system. >>>I am sure that the graphic card is OK, since I can run X-windows with >>>multi-media service installed on Digital UNIX with another drive. I am not sure what you mean by "drive".
505.2	Another question	BGSDEV::CDANCY	Chip Dancy	`Thu Jun 05 1997 16:32`	7
	Rereading your topic: Do you mean that if you install a different disk drive, upon which you have UNIX installed, and you boot from it, that you can then get the console graphics device to work? If so, do a `sizer -gt`. This will show you the graphics controller option id. Then ask the VMS notesfile whether that device is supported.