Planar DOME Md5/DFP, Installation Manual

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78 | Installing the Board and Driver in a Sun PCI Workstation
If you are using a Sun display board as the boot console, you can
use it to check the default mode programmed on your Md5/DFP
board. You can also use the Sun console to change the default
display mode on the Md5/DFP board.
To check the default display mode
After you install the driver software and reboot your computer
(if necessary), use the
video_mode
program to check the default
display mode.
Change the directory to
/opt/DOMEmd5dfp/util
first, then type
this command:
video_mode -h
The command displays a help file that describes the usage
syntax for the
video_mode
program.
You can also use the
video_mode
command to find out whether
a default mode is programmed on your board. For example, type
this line of code to see if a default display mode is programmed
on the first board in your system:
video_mode -d /dev/md5dfp0.0