Nevermind. User-error. Prentice
Prentice Bisbal wrote: > Beowulfers, > > Are any of you having problems with the VGA console on your Microway > Navion or Supermicro servers? > > About 2 months ago, I received for new Microway Navion Servers with > Fermi GPUs. These servers are just rebranded SuperMicro servers with the > H8DGG-QF motherboard. > > I had this problem when I first started working with these systems, but > then it disappeared. Now that I'm trying to reinstall the OS on a couple > of systems, I can no longer get a VGA console. > > Here's the symptoms: When I plug in the monitor on my crash, cart, it > recognizes that there's a computer connected. Otherwise it would display > the self-test message, indicating that NOTHING is connected. However, a > split second after detecting it's connected to a computer, it goes right > into power saving mode - the LED in Dell monitor's powerbutton goes > from green to orange. > > The keyboard works, because the numlock LED goes on and off as expected. > > The GPU cards are Tesla cards that don't even have a display port on > them, so I don't think I need to specify the on-board display in the > BIOS, and if this needed to be done, I would assume that Microway would > have done this before shipping the system. > > Am I making an ass out of myself by assuming this? I was able to get a > console on these systems at one point without tinkering with the bios. > > -- Prentice Bisbal Linux Software Support Specialist/System Administrator School of Natural Sciences Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, NJ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
