On Thu, November 5, 2015 12:07 pm, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Hi, folks, > > I've got a new Dell R730 server. My users have two Tesla K-80's in it. > Then, they wanted to add video, for complicated reasons. > > Anyway, there's the onboard VGA; I just put in a Quadro K600 (they > require DP, and this card offers that). Plug in a VGA monirot (the card > even comes with two adaptors, one from large DP to DVI-D, and one DVI-D to > VGA. (And according to the quick start guide, there's no additional power > cable.) > > Boot the system, and no video on from the card. In the BIOS, the only > thing I see that appears to relate is enable/disable onboard video. I'm > looking at that as a last option, since I have no idea how I'd *undo* it, > if I then have zero video.... > > Dell, of course, doesn't support ordinary video cards in a server.... > So, anyone have clues, or pointers, to getting video coming out of the new > card? Now, I have no issues with putting the proprietary NVidia driver on, > but I'm trying to figure out if I'm missing something. > When this happens to me I first make sure that on boot I have something connected to [an extra video card] video input. Otherwise the card is likely to not initialize that video input. Shouldn't be necessary for DP inputs which hot kick in when something is connected. Next thing I would check dmesg to see the this hardware has been detected (if there are any conflicts with interrupt numbers or address ranged to be used, you should see these). I'll also check lspci to see if the system sees that hardware on the bus. In general, one shouldn't need to do anything in BIOS. On Dell workstations when PCI express video card meant to be exclusively used as video adapter in BIOS they make it "primary video", or sometimes totally disable onboard video. You can try the last, but if the box comes with no video output at all (so you will not be able to change BIOS settings), then you may need to use CMOS setup reset jumper to reset settings to factory default (of course, you can change BIOS setting without video, but you will need for that to remember all menus, and mouse the excludes, only keyboard can be used). But as it is Dell server, one never knows... Good luck! Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++