NAME

grfet — 8/16/24/32-bit color graphics driver

SYNOPSIS

grfet* at zbus0
grf6 at grfet?
ite6 at grf6

DESCRIPTION

The grfet 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

console(4), ite(4), grfconfig(8)

HISTORY

The grfet interface first appeared in NetBSD 1.2.

BUGS

grfet does not support the sync-on-green flag from grfconfig(8).