NAME
grfet
—
8/16/24/32-bit color graphics
driver
SYNOPSIS
grfet* at zbus0
grf6 at grfet?
ite6 at grf6
DESCRIPTION
Thegrfet
device driver supports graphics boards with
the Tseng ET4000 or ET4000W32 chipset and a Sierra 11483 or Brooktree BT482
DAC. It supports the minimal ioctl's needed to run X11.
HARDWARE
The grfet
interface supports the following
ZorroII/III expansion cards:
- Domino
- A Zorro II only card with the Tseng ET4000 chipset and a Sierra 11483 DAC. From Village Tronic, manufacturer 2167, product 1 for the memory base and 2 for the register base.
- Merlin
- A Zorro II/III card with the Tseng ET4000W32 chipset and a Brooktree BT482 DAC. From Expert, manufacturer 2117, with the product 3 for the memory base and 4 for the register base.
- oMnibus
- A Zorro II only Zorro/AT bridge board with a separate VGA card usually with a Tseng ET4000 chipset and a Sierra 11483 DAC, but a few others are also supported. Once made by Oliver Bausch and sold by Armax, manufacturer 2181, product 0 for the memory base and also 0 for the register base.
FILES
- /dev/grf6
- graphics interface special file
- /dev/ttye6
- console interface special file for the internal terminal emulator
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The grfet
interface first appeared in
NetBSD 1.2.
BUGS
grfet
does not support the sync-on-green
flag from
amiga/grfconfig(8).