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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