Reference

zx(4)

accelerated 24-bit color frame buffer

NAME

zx – accelerated 24-bit color frame buffer

SYNOPSIS

zx* at sbus? wsdisplay* at zx?

DESCRIPTION

The ZX and TurboZX are dual-slot SBus color frame buffers, with graphics acceleration and overlay capabilities. They are also known as the Sun “Leo” graphics card.

The zx driver interfaces the frame buffer with the wscons(4) console framework. It does not provide direct device driver entry points but makes its functions available via the internal wsdisplay(4) interface.

DISPLAY RESOLUTION

The following resolutions are supported by the ZX frame buffer:

ResolutionRefresh RateDetails
1280x102476 HzNon-interlaced
1280x102467 HzNon-interlaced
1152x90076 HzNon-interlaced
1152x90066 HzNon-interlaced
1024x76876 HzNon-interlaced
1024x76860 HzNon-interlaced
960x680112 HzStereo, non-interlaced 56 Hz field rate per eye
960x680108 HzStereo, non-interlaced 54 Hz field rate per eye
770x57550 HzInterlaced - PAL
640x48059.94 HzInterlaced - NTSC

If the ZX frame buffer is connected to a monitor at boot time, it will select its display resolution depending of the monitor ‘select code’ provided by the 13W3 connector. If the frame buffer is not connected to a monitor, the default resolution of 1152x900, with a 66 Hz refresh rate, will be selected. The selected resolutions are:

MonitorResolutionRefreshMonitor
sense codeRateType
01024x76876 HzX449A
11152x90066 Hz
21280x102476 HzX248A, GDM-205S
31152x90066 HzGDM-1955A15, GDM-1604A15, CPD-1790
41280x102467 HzGDM-20D10, GDM-1962
51152x90066 Hz
61152x90076 HzGDM-1662B, 17SMM4
71152x90066 Hz

SEE ALSO

intro(4), sbus(4), wscons(4), wsdisplay(4)

CAVEATS

There is currently no software interface to change the frame buffer resolution at runtime.