System Procedures; Connecting A Digital Monitor - Silicon Graphics Virtu VN200 Hardware User's Manual

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Connecting a Digital Monitor

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Chapter 3

System Procedures

The NVIDIA Quadro FX card supports two DVI-I outputs. The DVI-I output farthest
away from the stereo connector is the primary channel for the system. By default this port
outputs an analog signal when the system is not configured. If you attach digital monitor
to the system, you can reset the DVI-I port by performing the following steps.
1. Attach the monitor.
2. Log into the node remotely as root.
3. Enter the following commands:
init 3
rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
nvidia-xconfig
init 5
The xorg.conf file is initialized with the Extended Display Identification Data
(EDID) setting from the digital monitor.
Note: The graphics node VGA port (refer to
NVIDIA Quadro FX card is installed.
Figure 2-5 on page 25) is disabled when a
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