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CGSIX(4)             NetBSD/sparc Kernel Interfaces Manual            CGSIX(4)


NAME

     cgsix -- Sun accelerated 8-bit color frame buffer


SYNOPSIS

     cgsix* at sbus? slot ? offset ? (sun4c/sun4m)
     cgsix0 at obio0 addr 0xfb000000 level 4 (sun4/300)
     cgsix0 at obio0 addr 0x0b000000 level 4 (sun4/100)


DESCRIPTION

     The cgsix is a memory based color frame buffer.  It supports the minimal
     ioctl's needed to run X(7).

     There are several versions of the cgsix board.  The Sun part numbers and
     board types are:

     501-1374, 501-1532            P4 GX
     501-1505                      P4 GX with 3/80 backpanel
     501-1481, 501-1645            Sbus double-width GX
     501-1672, 501-1996            Sbus GX
     501-1717, 501-2018, 501-2039  Sbus GX+
     501-2325, 501-2922            Sbus TGX
     501-2253, 501-2955            Sbus TGX+

     There are also on-board `GX' cards in the `SPARCstation IPX' and
     `SPARCstation LX' machines.

     The `GX' and `TGX' cards have 1Mb of on-board memory and support a maxi-
     mum graphics resolution of 1152x900.  The `GX+' cards have 4Mb of on-
     board memory and support a maximum resolution of 1280x1024.  The `TGX+'
     cards have 4Mb of on-board memory and support a maximum resolution of
     1600x1280.  The `TGX' (Turbo GX) cards are faster than the `GX' cards.

     The number of supported resolutions varies by card type.  All cards sup-
     port a resolution of 1152x900 at 66Hz.  All but the P4 and double-width
     cards support a resolution of 1152x900 at 76Hz.  The cards default to a
     resolution dependent on the attached monitor (usually 1152x900).

     It is only possible to change the resolution of a cgsix card from the
     PROM before the operating system is loaded.  For the primary card, this
     can be done using the `output-device' PROM field.  For example, for a
     `TGX+' card, the following PROM command will set the resolution to
     1280x1024 at 76Hz:

           setenv output-device screen:r1280x1024x76

     For secondary cards, a different method must be used to set the resolu-
     tion.  For a machine with OpenBoot 2.x or 3.x, and assuming a `TGX' card
     at Sbus slot 1, the following PROM commands will set the resolution to
     1024x768 at 60Hz:

           nvedit
           probe-all
           " /iommu/sbus/cgsix@1" select-dev
           r1024x768x60
           " /iommu/sbus/cgsix@1" " set-resolution" execute-device-method
           device-end
           install-console
           banner
           ^C
           nvstore
           setenv use-nvramrc? true
           reset

     For Sun4c machines, the device-path above would be:

           " /sbus/cgsix@1"

     For Sun-4 and Sun-3 systems, it is only possible to change PROM fields by
     altering byte values.  For these systems, it is probably easier to use
     the eeprom(8) command to set the scrsize field to the desired resolution.


EXAMPLES

     cgsix0 at obio0 addr 0xfb000000 level 4: cgsix/p4, 1152 x 900, rev 1
     cgsix0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x0 level 9: SUNW,501-2325, 1152 x 900, rev
     11 cgsix0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x0 level 9: SUNW,501-2253, 1280 x 1024,
     rev 11


SEE ALSO

     sparc/bwtwo(4), sparc/cgeight(4), sparc/cgfour(4), sparc/cgfourteen(4),
     sparc/cgthree(4), sparc/cgtwo(4), sparc/tcx(4), eeprom(8)


BUGS

     The double-width `GX' and the `GX+' cards are not compatible with Ultra-
     SPARC machines.

     On Sun-4 systems using a P4 GX card as console, the console field in the
     PROM must be set to p4opt, otherwise the card will not be recognised as
     the console output device.

     Several firmware revisions on cgsix boards have a terminal emulation bug
     that shows up when using the screen control sequences for inserting blank
     lines near the bottom end of the screen (i.e., the control sequences pro-
     duced by the termcap `al' and `AL' capabilities found in the terminfo(5)
     database).  The most likely occasion for triggering this bug is to use a
     full-screen editor such as vi(1) on the workstation's console.

     To work around this you can set your TERM environment variable to the
     `sun-cgsix' terminal definition which is the same as the `sun' entry,
     except that the `al' and `AL' capabilities have been removed (at the cost
     of making the scrolling of the screen slower).

NetBSD 10.99                   February 17, 2017                  NetBSD 10.99