C H A P T E R 2 - Installing the Software

C H A P T E R 2

Installing the Software

This chapter provides Sun XVR-2500 graphics accelerator software installation information.

Software Requirements

Installing the Software

Man Pages

Software Requirements

The Solaris 10 Operating System, or subsequent compatible version of the Solaris Operating System, is required on your SPARC® system before
installing the Sun XVR-2500 graphics accelerator software:

3.5 Mbytes of available disk space for Sun XVR-2500 graphics accelerator Solaris system software

160 Mbytes for Sun OpenGL 1.5 for Solaris, 175 Mbytes of disk space for Sun OpenGL 1.3 for Solaris

See Appendix B for additional software information.

Installing the Software

Use the install utility on the CD-ROM to install the software. This utility installs necessary driver software and patches.

1. Log in as superuser.

2. Insert the CD into the drive.

If the CD is already mounted, type the following and go to Step 3:

# cd /cdrom/cdrom0

If the CD is not already mounted, type:

# mount -F hsfs -O -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 /cdrom

# cd /cdrom

Note - The CD-ROM device might be different on your system. For example,
/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s2.

3. To install the software, type:

# ./install

The following output varies depending on the configuration of the system:

Welcome to the Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator

Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.

Use is subject to license terms.

This program installs the software for the Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator.

Please select the version of Sun OpenGL to install:

1) Sun OpenGL 1.3

2) Sun OpenGL 1.5

3) Do not install Sun OpenGL

Enter a number: 2

The installation program checks if the graphics accelerator software is already installed. If already installed, the following is displayed:

*** Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator packages are already installed.

*** DCMTool packages are already installed.

*** Sun OpenGL 200.1.5 packages are already installed.

*** All required software for Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator is already installed - exiting.

4. Select the Sun OpenGL for Solaris version and press Return.

The following is displayed. For this example, option 2, Sun OpenGL 1.5 for Solaris, is selected on a Solaris 10 Operating System.

The following is displayed indicating the installation option selected:

This script is about to take the following actions:

- Install Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator software

- Install Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator patch(es)  120928-03

- Install DCMTool

- Install Sun OpenGL 1.5

Press return to continue, or 'Q' to quit:

5. Press Return to begin installation.

When complete, the following is displayed:

Note - Depending on your system configuration, the actual output from the installation process might differ from what is shown below.

*** Installing Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator packages...

*** Installing patch 120928-03 for Solaris 10...

*** Installing DCMTool packages...

*** Installing Sun OpenGL 1.5 packages...

*** Done.  A log of this installation is at:

        /var/tmp/XVR-2500.install.2006.01.25

*** NOTE: The system should be rebooted as soon as possible to ensure

***        that the latest Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator software is in use.

6. Shut down the system after the software is installed:

# shutdown -i 5

See the shutdown(1M) and boot(1M) man pages for more details.

7. Go to Installing the Hardware for information on installing the hardware.

To remove the software, see Appendix C.

Man Pages

The Sun XVR-2500 graphics accelerator man pages describe how you can query and set frame buffer attributes such as screen resolutions and visual configurations. You may also access the Display Configuration Management tool (DCMtool) for changing monitor screen resolutions (Appendix D).

Use the fbconfig(1M) man page for configuring all Sun graphics accelerators.
SUNWkfb_config(1M) contains Sun XVR-2500 device-specific configuration information. To get a list of all devices on your system, type:

host% fbconfig -list

Use the fbconfig -help option to display the attributes and parameters information of the man page. To access the help page, type:

host% fbconfig -dev kfb0 -help

To access the fbconfig man page, type:

host% man fbconfig

To access the Sun XVR-2500 graphics accelerator man page, type:

host% man SUNWkfb_config