Subject: Re: X on Sun 4...
To: Marc Duponcheel <mduponch@cisco.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/28/1995 13:20:50
On Mon, 28 Aug 1995 20:45:15 +0200
Marc Duponcheel <mduponch@cisco.com> wrote:
> Is there any way to have a Sparc IPC (24Meg) to have a screen size >
> 1152 x 900
Well, I'd imagine that you'd have to have a screen and framebuffer that
can deal with it.
> Do I have more than one piece of video hardware ?
>
> (from dmesg) cgthree0 at sbus0 slot 2 offset 0x0: SUNW,501-1718, 1152 x
> 900 (console) bwtwo0 at sbus0 slot 3 offset 0x0: SUNW,501-1561, 1152 x
> 900
It looks that way ... I think most Sparcstations have a built-in bwtwo...
> I remember something about setting screen sizes with the eeprom utility
> from SunOS but I actually never managed to make that work. How do *you*
> specify screen sizes?
(Note NetBSD has an eeprom command now, too :-). Basically, you set the
eeprom to reflect what kind of hardware is on the system. Doing
otherwise could cause ... unexpected results, I'd imagine.
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