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Boot Console Handler
Displaying and Setting the Monitor Type
Displaying the Current Monitor Configuration
To display the current monitor configuration for your system from the Configuration Menu
of the Boot Console Handler, follow the directions in “Accessing the Boot Console Handler”
on page 158 in this chapter. Once you are in the Boot Console Handler Main Menu, type
the following command and press
Enter:
Main Menu: Enter command> configuration
This places you in the Configuration Menu. From here, type the following command at the
prompt and press
Enter:
Config Menu: Enter command> monitor
The screen displays a list of the current graphics adapters and their monitor types
configured for the workstation.
MONITOR INFORMATION
Path Slot Head HPA Resolution Freq Type Class
------- ----- ---- ------ ---------- ----- ---- -------
GRAPHICS(2) 2 1 fffa000000 1280x1024 75Hz 1 PCI
Configuration Menu: Enter command>
In this example, only the graphics adapter, GRAPHICS(2), is configured. The monitor type
for GRAPHICS(2) is set to type 1, which for this card is a 1280x1024 monitor that uses a
frequency of 75 Hz.