Add information about cgsix boards and notes on how to set the graphics

resolution.

This page should probably be shared with sun3 and sparc64 at some point.
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.\" $NetBSD: cgsix.4,v 1.7 1999/12/17 16:23:24 abs Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: cgsix.4,v 1.8 2002/09/11 15:34:08 jdc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright 1994
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.Cd "cgsix0 at obio0 addr 0x0b000000 level 4" Pq sun4/100
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm cgsix
.Nm
is a memory based color frame buffer.
It supports the minimal ioctl's needed to run
.Xr X 1 .
.Pp
There are several versions of the
.Nm
board. The Sun part numbers and
board types are:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "501-1717, 501-2018, 501-2039" -compact
.It "501-1374, 501-1532"
P4 GX
.It 501-1505
P4 GX with 3/80 backpanel
.It "501-1481, 501-1645"
Sbus double-width GX
.It "501-1672, 501-1996"
Sbus GX
.It "501-1717, 501-2018, 501-2039"
Sbus GX+
.It "501-2325, 501-2922"
Sbus TGX
.It "501-2253, 501-2955"
Sbus TGX+
.El
.Pp
There are also on-board
.Sq GX
cards in the
.Sq Sparcstation IPX
and
.Sq Sparcstation LX
machines.
.Pp
The
.Sq GX
and
.Sq TGX
cards have 1Mb of on-board memory and support a maximum graphics resolution
of 1152x900. The
.Sq GX\&+
cards have 4Mb of on-board memory and support a maximum resolution of
1280x1024. The
.Sq TGX\&+
cards have 4Mb
of on-board memory and support a maximum resolution of 1600x1280. The
.Sq TGX
(Turbo GX) cards are faster than the
.Sq GX
cards.
.Pp
The number of supported resolutions varies by card type. All cards support 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).
.Pp
It is only possible to change the resolution of a
.Nm
card from the PROM before the operating system is loaded. For the primary
card, this can be done using the
.Sq output-device
PROM field. For example, for a
.Sq TGX+
card, the following PROM command will set the resolution to 1280x1024 at
76Hz:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
setenv output-device screen:r1280x1024x76
.Ed
.Pp
For secondary cards, a different method must be used to set the resolution.
For a machine with OpenBoot 2.x or 3.x, and assuming a
.Sq TGX
card at Sbus slot 1, the following PROM commands will set the resolution to
1024x768 at 60Hz:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
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
.Ed
.Pp
For Sun4c machines, the device-path above would be:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
" /sbus/cgsix@1"
.Ed
.Pp
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
.Xr eeprom 8
command to set the
.Va scrsize
field to the desired resolution.
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Cd "cgsix0 at obio0 addr 0xfb000000 level 4: cgsix/p4, 1152 x 900, rev 1"
.Cd "cgsix0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x0 level 9: SUNW,501-2325, 1152 x 900, rev 11"
.Cd "cgsix0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x0 level 9: SUNW,501-2253, 1280 x 1024, rev 11"
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr bwtwo 4 ,
.Xr cgtwo 4 ,
.Xr cgthree 4 ,
.Xr cgfour 4 ,
.Xr cgeight 4 ,
.Xr tcx 4
.Xr tcx 4 ,
.Xr eeprom 8
.Sh BUGS
The double-width
.Sq GX
and the
.Sq GX\&+
cards are not compatible with UltraSparc machines.
.Pp
Several firmware revisions on
.Nm
boards have a terminal emulation bug that shows up when using the