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CGONE(4S)  —  DEVICES AND NETWORK INTERFACES

NAME

cgone − Sun-1 color graphics interface

CONFIG — SUN-2 SYSTEM

device cgone0 at mbmem ? csr 0xec000 priority 3

DESCRIPTION

The cgone interface provides access to the Sun-1 system color graphics controller board, which is normally supplied with a 13” or 19” RS170 color monitor.  It provides the standard frame buffer interface as defined in fbio(4S). 

It supports the FBIOGPIXRECT ioctl which allows SunView to be run on it; see fbio(4S)

The hardware consumes 16 kilobytes of Multibus memory space.  The board starts at standard addresses 0xE8000 or 0xEC000.  The board must be configured for interrupt level 3. 

FILES

/dev/cgone[0-9]

SEE ALSO

mmap(2), fbio(4S)

BUGS

Use of color board vertical-retrace interrupts is not supported. 

Sun Release 4.0  —  Last change: 9 October 1987

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