Subject: Re: 1280x1024?
To: Aaron Brown <abrown@eecs.harvard.edu>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/25/1996 01:36:07
Aaron Brown wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to get a Sparc to run at 1280x1024? Is this something
> that the video driver has to do, or can I somehow get the PROM to initialize
> the video correctly (I'd much rather do the latter, since the cg14 driver
> doesn't have the smarts to do it right now--it just reads the height and
> width out of the PROM). Or do the consoles always run in 1152x900?
You should be able to use this PROM command:
setenv output-device=screen:r1280x1024x76
I have only used it for setting the console back to 1152x900 when I use
a non-Sun monitor that I know supports 1152x900, yet the machine defaults
to 1024x768.
-Andrew