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Setting the Default Console Display for the Sun Blade 1000 and 2000 Systems

These instructions describe how to set the Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerator as the default monitor console display for Sun Blade 1000 and Sun Blade 2000 systems only.

1. At the ok prompt, type:

ok show-displays

Information similar to the text below will be displayed:

a) /pci@1f,0/SUNW,m64B@13

b) /pci@1f,0/pci@5/SUNW,XVR-500@1

q) NO SELECTION

Enter Selection, q to quit: b

/pci@1f,0/pci@5/SUNW,XVR-500@1 has been selected.

Type ^Y ( Control-Y ) to insert it in the command line.

e.g. ok nvalias mydev ^Y

    for creating devalias mydev for

/pci@1f,0/pci@5/SUNW,XVR-500@1

ok nvalias mydev /pci@1f,0/pci@5/SUNW,XVR-500@1

ok setenv output-device mydev

output-device = mydev

2. Select the graphics board you want to be the default console display.

In the above example, you type b for the Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerator.

3. Create an alias name for the Sun XVR-500 device:

This step is optional for all other systems. Creating the alias, however, will simplify future OpenBoot^TM PROM commands.

a. Select the Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerator device from the show-displays menu.

b. Name the Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerator device.

i. Use nvalias to name the device.

This example shows mydev as the device.

ok nvalias mydev

ii. Press Control-Y on your keyboard and then Enter.

c. Verify the alias.

ok devalias

The selected alias is then displayed.

You can now refer to mydev for the Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerator device. For example,

ok setenv output-device mydev

4. Reset the output-device environment:

ok reset-all

5. Connect your monitor cable to the Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerator on your system back panel.