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Setting the Default Console Display
These instructions describe how to set the Sun XVR-4000 graphics accelerator as the
default monitor console display:
1. At the
ok
prompt, type:
Information similar to the text below is displayed:
2. Select the graphics board you want to be the default console display.
In the above example, you type
b
for the Sun XVR-4000 graphics accelerator.
3. Create an alias name for the Sun XVR-4000 device:
This step is optional for all other systems. Creating the alias, however, simplifies
future OpenBoot PROM commands.
a. Select the Sun XVR-4000 graphics accelerator device from the
show-displays
menu.
ok show-displays
a) /pci@1f,0/SUNW,m64B@13
b) /pci@1f,0/pci@5/SUNW,XVR-4000@1
q) NO SELECTION
Enter Selection, q to quit: b
/pci@1f,0/pci@5/SUNW,XVR-4000@1 has been selected.
Type ^Y ( Control-Y ) to insert it in the command line.
e.g. ok nvalias mydev ^Y
for creating devalias mydev for
/pci@1f,0/pci@5/SUNW,XVR-4000@1
ok nvalias mydev /pci@1f,0/pci@5/SUNW,XVR-4000@1
ok setenv output-device mydev
output-device = mydev
