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Setting the Default Console Display
These instructions describe how to set the Sun XVR-600 graphics accelerator as the
default monitor console display.
1. At the ok prompt, type:
Information similar to the text below is displayed:
2. Select the graphics board you want to be the default console display.
In the above example, we typed
b for the Sun XVR-600 graphics accelerator. Your
selection is confirmed by the following output:
3. Create an alias name for the Sun XVR-600 device.
This step is optional for all systems. Creating the alias, however, will simplify future
OpenBoot PROM commands.
ok show-displays
a) /pci@8,700000/SUNW,pfb@1
b) /pci@8,700000/SUNW,XVR-600@1
q) NO SELECTION
Enter Selection, q to quit: b
/pci@8,700000/SUNW,XVR-600@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@8,700000/SUNW,XVR-600@1