any info about LCD panel on a Dell PowerEdge 1950?

[Brian Reichert]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:26:21PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:54:06AM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:12:50AM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote:
> > > The docs I'm finding (DTK23CLI.pdf) only document 'sysconfig'; some
> > > DOS utility.  I'm interested in a utility that can be run from
> > > RHEL4.  Despite the absence of docs, it there something on this DTK
> > > CD that can help me?
> > 
> > Actually, there is a Linux executable of the same name buried in a
> > tarball, but that version of syscfg doesn't support the --lcd1
> > argument.  The 'lcd1' string is embedded in the executable, though.
> 
> Search the mailing list archives. The lcd is managed via IPMI commands.
> Somebody posted a while back the ipmi commands to set it on
> linux-poweredge.

Sorry; I was slow to provide feedback.

The DTK ISO indeed has a set of RPMs that provide a 'syscfg' utility.
I've been able to demonstrate that they work as I hoped.

> Also, I believe that there may be somebody working on integrating this
> into ipmitool at some point in the future...

(I realize this this is _not_ the forum for this set of tools, so I
apologize for remaining on-topic.)

My current difficulty is that I hoped to use these DTK tools in a
kickstart-based provisioning environment, but I'm defeated by some
undocumented preconditions in an RPM.  This is an issue I should
raise with Dell, I guess. :/

Thanks for this list's help, by the way. :)

> --
> Michael

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