42 Sun XVR-600 Graphics Accelerator Installation and User’s Guide • May 2004
a. Use nvalias to name the Sun XVR-600 graphics accelerator device.
This example uses mydev as the device.
Complete the line entry by pressing Control-Y on your keyboard (that is, press
and hold Control and press the Y key) and then Return. The output displays as:
b. Verify the alias.
In the above output, both mydev and screen are mapped to
/pci@8,700000/SUNW,XVR-600@1 and are therefore interchangeable alias
names.
In this procedure example, you can now refer to mydev as the Sun XVR-600
graphics accelerator device, as shown in the next step.
4. Set the selected device to be the default console display.
For example,
If you did not execute Step 3 (creating an alias name), you need to type the entire
device name precisely. In this example, you would need to enter the following:
5. Reset the system using the new output-device as the console:
ok nvalias mydev (Control-Y)
ok nvalias mydev /pci@8,700000/SUNW,XVR-600@1
ok devalias
mydev /pci@8,700000/SUNW,XVR-600@1
screen /pci@8,700000/SUNW,XVR-600@1
mouse /pci@9,700000/usb@1,3/mouse@2
keyboard /pci@9,700000/usb@1,3/keyboard@1
....
ok setenv output-device mydev
output-device = mydev
ok setenv output-device /pci@8,700000/SUNW,XVR-600@1
output-device = /pci@8,700000/SUNW,XVR-600@1
ok reset-all