René Rebe

Some, older video drivers specific to proprietary Sun video boards such most of their early once but also one of the last of it’s kinds Creator / Elite 3d do not have a mode-setting open source Linux driver. To set another video mode for those you “currently” need to do so from the OBP / OpenFirmware, such as:

setenv output-device screen:r1600×1000x66

Unfortunately usually the cards open firmware glue does not support any arbitrary mode with this so you need to check against a list of officially Sun supported modes, … :-/ However, you can at least test what you set with

install-console

though ;-)

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