[geeks] RS/6000 B50 Xserver

[Mark Benson]

I fired up my RS/6000 B50 yesterday after leaving it standing for a while. I
changed the clock battery as a precaution (so now the date is a bit out of
whack).

It boots fine (of course, it's an IBM) and AIX 5L 5.3.0 fires up just great.
The issue is the X server bombs when it tries to start.

The framebuffer card is working just great. I can see the console, the startup
screen, everything is dandy.

I ran SMIT and checked the setup and it appears to be confused. I know at one
stage I swapped the graphics card to move it up to the top slot because it was
resting on the RAM modules. I'm not sure I've re-installed since then (I
upgraded it to a new single 73GB 15krpm disk). It lists 2 GXP130s at 2
addresses. Almost inevitably only one is there (it's a single port, single
card setup). The resolution is set to 1280x1024 at 75Hz (which might be the issue
also - I am not 100% that the GXP130 will go that high).

Is there some way to beat the setup into using the defaults and rescanning for
cards?

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