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Sun XVR-1200 Graphics Accelerator Overview
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This chapter provides an overview of the Sun XVR-1200 graphics accelerator.
To find the systems that support the Sun XVR-1200 graphics accelerator, go to:
http://www.sun.com/desktop/products/graphics/xvr1200/
Installation Kit
The Sun XVR-1200 graphics accelerator installation kit includes:
- Sun XVR-1200 graphics accelerator
- Sun XVR-1200 graphics accelerator software (CD-ROM)
- Fan card (included in kit for Sun Fire 6800/6900 systems only)
- Antistatic wrist strap
- Sun XVR-1200 Graphics Accelerator Installation and User's Guide, this document
See Chapter 6 to order framelock cables, if required.
Sun XVR-1200 Graphics Accelerator Overview
The Sun XVR-1200 graphics accelerator is a PCI-based graphics accelerator which provides high resolution and high performance PCI 3D graphics. Features include texture memory, PCI 66/33 MHz 64-bit interface, and dual DVI-I video output. The Sun XVR-1200 graphics accelerator occupies two slots.
FIGURE 1-1 shows the Sun XVR-1200 graphics accelerator.
FIGURE 1-1 Sun XVR-1200 Graphics Accelerator
FIGURE 1-2 shows the Sun XVR-1200 graphics accelerator I/O backplate.
FIGURE 1-2 Sun XVR-1200 Graphics Accelerator Backplate I/O Ports
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Note - Only the DVI-1 connector labeled "1" can be used as the console output.
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Features
- 32 Mbytes of SDRAM display list memory
- 256 Mbytes of texture memory
- 128 Mbytes of frame buffer memory
- 10-bit gamma correction
- Resolution up to 2048 × 1536 × 40 at 30-bit color
- Dual 1920 × 1200 screens support from a single board
- Dual 1280 × 1024 stereo screen support
- Hardware cursor
- Stereoscopic viewing support (frame sequential)
- Display Data Channel (DDC) monitor support for bidirectional communication
- Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS) to enable monitor's power-saving mode
- High-speed, full-featured DMA over the PCI bus
- Multiscreen support using multiple cards in a single workstation
- Frame locking of the video timing to an external timing source
- Multiview functionality for framelocking of multiple cards
- Two video lookup tables
- Stereo output
- PCI 66/33 MHz 64-bit interface
- Dual DVI-I video out
Additional Features
- Geometry acceleration
- Model view matrix transformation of vertex and normal coordinates
- Texture matrix transformation of texture coordinates
- Full lighting calculations with up to 32 light sources
- Up to six user clip planes
- Perspective transformation
- Viewport transformation
- View volume clipping
- OpenGL operations (supports Sun OpenGL 1.3 for Solaris)
- Multi-texture and cube-mapping
- Points (2D, 3D, wide)
- Vectors (2D and 3D lines and line strips; wide, stippled)
- Polygons (triangles, triangle strips, quads, quad strips, polygons, point/line polygon mode)
- Antialiased points, vectors, and polygons
- Image support (multiple formats, zoom, bilinear scaling, color matrix, color tables)
- Alpha operations
- Scissoring
- Window clipping
- Masking
- Fogging (linear, exponential, exponential2, user-defined)
- Texture mapping (point, bilinear, trilinear, multiple internal formats)
- Stencil operations
- Dithering
- Rich set of blending operations
- Fast window clears
- Fast window-mode double buffering
- Frame-sequential stereo support
- Extensive support of OpenGL
- Imaging extensions such as pixel buffer, color table, and color matrix
- Blend extensions such as blend color, blend minmax, and blend function separate
- Texture extensions (edge clamp, border clamp, LOD clamp, generate mipmap)
- Texture color table
- Post-texturing specular
- Stencil operation wrap
Video Formats
TABLE 1-1 lists the supported screen resolutions for the Sun XVR-1200 graphics accelerator.
To get a list of all graphics devices on your system, type:
To get a list of available resolutions for your display device, type:
host% fbconfig -dev jfb0 -res \?
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TABLE 1-1 also includes static multisampling sizes for the applicable resolutions for single and dual screens (spp is samples per pixel). The heading "Dual Screen" refers to doublewide or doublehigh dual displays.
TABLE 1-1 Sun XVR-1200 Graphics Accelerator Screen Resolutions
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Display
Resolution
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Vertical
Refresh Rate
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Sync
Standard
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Aspect Ratio Format
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Maximum Number of spp Single Screen
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Maximum Number of spp Dual Screen
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2048 x 1536
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40 Hz
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Sun
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16:10
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1
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1
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1920 x 1200
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60, 70, 75 Hz
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Sun
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16:10
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1
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1
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1920 x 1200
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60_240T Hz
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Sun
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16:10
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1
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1
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1920 x 1080
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72 Hz
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Sun
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16:9
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2
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1
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1792 x 1344
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75 Hz
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VESA
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4:3
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1
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1
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1600 x 1280
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76 Hz
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Sun
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5:4
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1
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1
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1600 x 1200
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60, 75 Hz
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VESA
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4:3
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2
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1
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1600 x 1000
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66, 76 Hz
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Sun
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16:10
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2
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1
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1440 x 900
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76 Hz
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Sun
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16:10
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1
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1
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1280 x 1024
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60, 75, 85 Hz
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VESA
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5:4
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4
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1
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1280 x 1024
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67, 76 Hz
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Sun
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5:4
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4
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1
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1280 x 1024
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112 Hz
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Sun-stereo
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5:4
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2
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1
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1280 x 800
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112 Hz
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Sun-stereo
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16:10
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2
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1
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1280 x 800
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76 Hz
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Sun
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16:10
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4
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1
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1152 x 900
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66, 76 Hz
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Sun
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5:4
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4
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2
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1152 x 900
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120 Hz
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Sun-stereo
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5:4
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2
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1
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1024 x 800
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84 Hz
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Sun
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5:4
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4
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2
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1024 x 768
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75 Hz
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VESA
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4:3
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4
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2
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1024 x 768
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60, 70, 77 Hz
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Sun
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4:3
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4
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2
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960 x 680
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108, 112 Hz
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Sun-stereo
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Sun-Stereo
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4
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2
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800 × 600
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75
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VESA
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4:3
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8
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4
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640 x 480
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60 Hz
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VESA
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4:3
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16
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8
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Note - Not all resolutions are supported by all monitors. Using resolutions that are not supported by the monitor may damage the monitor. Refer to your monitor manual for supported resolutions.
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Video Display Ports
The Sun XVR-1200 graphics accelerator provides two DVI video output ports. Each DVI video port supports both analog (DVI-A) and digital (DVI-D) video formats. Although the DVI port supports both analog and digital video formats, they cannot be used simultaneously from the individual DVI port.
Installation Process
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Caution - The Sun XVR-1200 graphics accelerator is not hot-swappable.
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1. Install the Sun XVR-1200 graphics accelerator software (Chapter 2).
2. Shutdown the system.
3. Install the Sun 1200 graphics accelerator hardware (Chapter 3), repower the system, and reboot (boot -r) for reconfiguration.
4. Modify the Xservers configuration file, if needed (Chapter 4).
Technical Support
For assistance and other information not found in this document concerning the
Sun XVR-1200 graphics accelerator, see Support Services at:
http://www.sun.com/service/online/
For the most up-to-date version of the installation guide, go to:
http://www.sun.com/documentation
Accessing Field Replaceable Unit Information
You can obtain Sun XVR-1200 graphics accelerator subcomponent version numbers and other data using fbconfig.
To obtain FRU ID (field replaceable unit identifier) information, type:
host% fbconfig -dev jfb0 -prconf
--- Hardware Configuration for /dev/fbs/jfb0 ---
Type: XVR-1200
Sun Serial Number: 3753101012803
Hardware Revision: -02 rev50
Manufacture Date: Tue Jan 28 13:15:52 2003
PROM Information: @(#)jfb.fth 1.8 02/10/18 SMI
Monitor/Resolution Information:
EDID Data: Available - EDID version 1 revision 3
Monitor type: Sun P/N 365-16981 S/N 02190012336
Current resolution setting: 1920x1200x60
Monitor possible resolutions: 1024x768x60, 1024x768x70, 1024x768x75,
1152x900x66, 1280x1024x60, 1280x1024x75, 1280x1024x76, 640x480x60,
1920x1200x60, 1920x1200x60_240T, 1600x1200x60, 800x600x75,
1920x1080x60
Framelock Configuration:
Slave Mode: Disabled
Memory Information:
Total Video Memory: 134217728
Video Memory Used: 18677760
Total Texture Memory: 268435456
Texture Memory Used: 0
Total Display List Memory: 33554432
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