Sun Microsystems XVR-2500 Installation And User Manual

Sun™XVR-2500

Graphics Accelerator

Installation and User’s Guide

Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Part No. 817-7517-10
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FCC Class A Notice

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:

1. This device may not cause harmful interference.

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Declaration of Conformity

Compliance Model Number: R500
Product Family Name: XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator (X7295A)

EMC

USA—FCC Class B

This equipment complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:

1. This equipment may not cause harmful interference.

2. This equipment must accept any interference that may cause undesired operation.

European Union

This equipment complies with the following requirements of the EMC Directive 89/336/EEC:

As Telecommunication Network Equipment (TNE) in both Telecom Centers and Other Than Telecom Centers per (as
applicable): EN300-386 V.1.3.2 (2003-05) Required Limits:

EN55022:1994 +A1:1995
+A2:1997

EN61000-3-2:2000 Pass
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+A1:2000
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IEC 61000-4-4 1 kV AC and DC Power Lines, 0.5 kV Signal Lines
IEC 61000-4-5 2 kV AC Line-Gnd, 1 kV AC Line-Line and Outdoor Signal Lines, 0.5 kV Indoor Signal Lines > 10m
IEC 61000-4-6 3 V
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As information Technology Equipment (ITE) Class B per (as applicable):

EN55022:1994 +A1:1995 +A2:1997 Class B
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EN61000-3-3:1995 +A1:2000 Pass
EN 55024:1998 +A1:2001 +A2:2003 Required Limits
IEC 61000-4-2 4 kV (Direct), 8 kV (Air)
IEC 61000-4-3 3 V/m
IEC 61000-4-4 1 kV AC and DC Power Lines, 0.5 kV Signal and DC Power Lines
IEC 61000-4-5 1 kV AC Line-Line and Outdoor Signal Lines, 2 kV AC Line-Gnd, 0.5 kV DC Power Lines
IEC 61000-4-6 3 V
IEC 61000-4-8 1 A/m
IEC 61000-4-11 Pass

Class B

Pass

Declaration of Conformity vii

Safety

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EC Type Examination Certificates:

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IEC 60950:2000, 3rd Edition CB Scheme Certificate No. DK-8895
Evaluated to all CB Countries
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Supplementary Information

This equipment was tested and complies with all the requirements for the CE Mark.
This equipment complies with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive 2002/95/EC.

/S/ /S/
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Contents

Preface xvii

1. Overview 1

Installation Kit 1

Graphics Accelerator Overview 2

Features 3

Additional Features 3

Video Formats 5

Listing Video Formats 6

Video Display Ports 6

Installation Process 7

Technical Support 7

2. Installing the Software 9

Software Requirements 9

Installing the Software 10

Man Pages 13

3. Installing the Hardware 15

Before Installation 15

System Configuration 16

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Installing the Hardware 16

Monitor Cables 17

Changing the Monitor Screen Resolutions 17

4. Configuring Multiple Frame Buffers 19

Configuring Multiple Frame Buffers Through the Xservers File 19

Xinerama 21

Using Xinerama 21

Restrictions When Using Xinerama 22

5. Using Features 23

Streaming Methods 23

Setting Up Streaming Methods 24

Setting Up Single Video Output 25

Setting Up Two Video Streams Over One Large Frame Buffer 25

Multisampling 27

Sample Density 27

Disabling Multisampling 28

Checking Device Configuration 29

A. Setting the Default Console Display 31

B. Software Information 35

Software Directory Packages 35

Software Package Locations 36

Software Packages 36

Sun OpenGL for Solaris Software 37

Software Package Locations 37

Software Patch Locations 37

Software Packages 38

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C. Removing the Software 39

D. Display Configuration Management (DCMtool)41

E. Stereo Viewing 43

Stereo 43

Cabling for Stereo 44

Configuring for Stereo 46

F. Multiscreen Viewing 47

Multiview 47

Multiview Genlock Ribbon Cable 48

Configuring for Multiview 49

G. Specifications 51

I/O Port Specifications 51

DVI Video Connector 52

Stereo Connector 54

Power Requirements 55

H. Graphics Library Extensions 57

Sun OpenGL 1.3 for Solaris Extensions 57

Sun OpenGL 1.5 for Solaris Extensions 58

Index 61

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Figures

FIGURE 1-1 Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator 2

FIGURE 5-1 Default Video Port 24

FIGURE E-1 Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator Stereo Connector 44

FIGURE E-2 Cabling for Stereo 45

FIGURE F-1 Multiview Genlock Cable Connector 48

FIGURE F-2 Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator Multiview Connector 50

FIGURE G-1 Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator I/O Backplate 51

FIGURE G-2 DVI Video Connector 52

FIGURE G-3 Stereo 3-Pin Connector 54

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Tables

TABLE 1-1 Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator Video Formats 5

TABLE 5-1 Multisample Options 27

TABLE B-1 CD-ROM Directory Package 35

TABLE B-2 Software Packages 36

TABLE B-3 Location of Sun OpenGL for Solaris Software Packages 37

TABLE B-4 Location of Sun OpenGL for Solaris Software Patches 37

TABLE B-5 Sun OpenGL 1.5 Packages 38

TABLE B-6 Sun OpenGL 1.3 Packages 38

TABLE F-1 Multiview Genlock Ribbon Cable Pinout 48

TABLE G-1 DVI Connector Pinout 52

TABLE G-2 Stereo 3-Pin Connector Pinout Descriptions 54

TABLE G-3 Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator Power Consumption 55

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Preface

This guide describes how to install and configure the Sun™XVR-2500 Graphics
Accelerator for your Sun Ultra

Before You Read This Document

This document is intended for experienced system administrators familiar with
installing and configuring graphics boards in Sun computer systems.

How This Document Is Organized

™

45 workstation.

Chapter 1 provides an overview of the Sun XVR-2500 graphis accelerator.

Chapter 2 describes how to install the software.

Chapter 3 describes how to install the hardware.

Chapter 4 describes how to modify the Xservers configuration file and how to use

Xinerama.

Chapter 5 provides information on using features, including multisample

antialiasing.

Appendix A describes how to set the default console display.

Appendix B lists product software directories, packages, and patches.

Appendix C describes how to remove the product software.

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Appendix D describes how to access the DMCtool to change screen resolutions.

Appendix E describes how to configure for stereo viewing.

Appendix F describes how to genlock two graphics accelerators for multiviewing.

Appendix G provides product specifications.

Appendix H lists the Sun OpenGL

®

for Solaris™ graphics library extensions.

Using UNIX Commands

This document might not contain information about basic UNIX®commands and
procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring
devices. Refer to the following for this information:

■ Software documentation that you received with your system

■ Solaris Operating System documentation, which is at:

http://docs.sun.com

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Shell Prompts

Shell Prompt

C shell machine-name%

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Bourne shell and Korn shell $

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and directories; on-screen
computer output

with on-screen computer output

words to be emphasized.
Replace command-line variables
with real names or values.

Edit your.login file.
Use ls -a to list all files.
% You have mail.

su

%
Password:

Read Chapter 6 in the User’s Guide.
These are called class options.
You must be superuser to do this.
To delete a file, type rm filename.

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CHAPTER

1

Overview

This chapter provides an overview of the Sun XVR-2500 graphics accelerator.

■ “Installation Kit” on page 1

■ “Graphics Accelerator Overview” on page 2

■ “Video Formats” on page 5

■ “Installation Process” on page 7

■ “Technical Support” on page 7

Installation Kit

The installation kit for the Sun XVR-2500 graphics accelerator includes:

■ Sun XVR-2500 graphics accelerator

■ Sun XVR-2500 graphics accelerator software (CD-ROM)

■ DVI-I to HD15 monitor adapter

■ Internal multiview genlock ribbon cable

■ Antistatic wrist strap

■ Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator Installation and User ’s Guide, this document

1

Graphics Accelerator Overview

The Sun XVR-2500 graphics accelerator is PCI-Express based. It provides high
resolution and high performance PCI-Express 3D graphics. The Sun XVR-2500
graphics accelerator has 256 Mbytes of unified memory for video and OpenGL
features. The Sun XVR-2500 graphics accelerator occupies one full-height, full-length
PCI-Express slot.

FIGURE 1-1 shows the Sun XVR-2500 graphics accelerator.

FIGURE 1-1 Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator

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Features

■ 256 Mbytes of unified memory for video memory, texture memory, Pbuffer,

stencil, multisample, Z-buffer, accumulation buffer memory and display list
memory

■ 10-bit gamma correction

■ Dual 1920 × 1200 screens supported from a single board

■ Dual 1280 × 1024 stereo screen support

■ Six programmable 36-bit vertex shaders supporting up to 1K instructions,

subroutines, loops, and conditionals

■ 48 programmable fragment shaders supporting up to 256K instructions,

subroutines, loops, and predicates

■ Programmable pixel shader

■ Hardware cursor

■ Stereoscopic viewing support (frame sequential)

■ Display data channel (DDC) monitor support for communication

■ Display power management signaling (DPMS) to enable monitor’s power-saving

mode

■ High-speed, full-featured DMA over the PCI-Express bus

■ Multiscreen support using multiple cards in a single workstation

■ Multiview functionality for genlocking two graphics accelerators

■ Stereo output

■ Dual DVI-I video out

Additional Features

■ Geometry acceleration

■ Model view matrix transformation of vertex and normal coordinates

■ Texture matrix transformation of texture coordinates

■ Perspective transformation

■ Viewport transformation

■ View volume clipping

■ OpenGL operations (support Sun OpenGL 1.3 and OpenGL 1.5 for Solaris)

■ Multitexture and cube mapping

■ Points (2D, 3D, wide)

■ Vectors (2D and 3D lines and line strips; wide, stippled

■ Polygons (triangles, triangle strips, quads, quad strips, polygons, point or line

polygon mode)

■ Antialiased points, vectors, and polygons

Chapter 1 Overview 3

■ Scissoring

■ Window clipping

■ Masking

■ Fogging (linear, exponential, exponential

■ Texture mapping (point, bilinear, trilinear, multiple internal formats)

■ Stencil operations

■ Dithering

■ Rich set of blending operations

■ Fast window-mode double buffering

■ Programmable vertex and fragment shaders (OpenGL 1.5 required)

2

, user-defined)

■ Extensive support of OpenGL

■ Imaging extensions such as pixel buffer, color table, and color matrix

■ Blend extensions such as blend color, blend minmax, and blend function

separate

■ Texture extensions (edge clamp, border clamp, LOD (level-of-detail) clamp,

generate mipmap)

■ Texture color table

■ Post-texturing specular reflection

■ Stencil operation wrap

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Video Formats

TABLE 1-1 lists the Sun XVR-2500 graphics accelerator video formats. TABLE 1-1 also

includes multisampling sizes for the applicable resolutions for single and dual
screens (spp is samples per pixel). The heading “Dual Screen” refers to double-wide
or double-high dual displays

TABLE 1-1 Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator Video Formats

Maximum

Number of

spp

Dual Screen

Display

Resolution

Vertical

Refresh Rate (Hz)

Aspect Ratio

Format

Sync

Standard

Maximum

Number of

spp

Single Screen

1920 × 1200 60, 75 16:10 Sun 8 -

1920 × 1080 60, 72 16:9 Sun 8 -

1600 × 1280 76 5:4 Sun 8 -

1600 × 1200 60, 75 4:3 VESA 8 -

1600 × 1200 60 4:3 Sun 8 -

1600 × 1024 60 4:3 Sun 16 -

1600 × 1000 66, 76 16:10 Sun 16 -

1440 × 900 76 16:10 Sun 16 -

1280 × 1024 96, 108, 112 5:4 Sun stereo 16 -

1280 x 1024 67, 76 5:4 Sun 16 -

1280 × 1024 60, 75, 85 5:4 VESA 16 -

1280 × 800 112 16:10 Sun stereo 16 4

1280 × 800 76 16:10 Sun 16 4

1280 × 768 56 5:3 Sun 16 4

1152 x 900 66, 76 5:4 Sun 16 4

1152 x 900 120 5:4 Sun stereo 16 4

1024 × 800 84 5:4 Sun 16 4

1024 × 768 77 4:3 Sun 16 8

1024 × 768 96 4:3 Sun stereo 16 4

1024 × 768 60, 70, 75 4:3 VESA 16 8

1024 × 692 100 4:3 Sun stereo 16 4

Chapter 1 Overview 5

TABLE 1-1 Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator Video Formats (Continued)

Display

Resolution

Vertical

Refresh Rate (Hz)

Aspect Ratio

Format

Sync

Standard

Maximum

Number of

spp

Single Screen

Maximum

Number of

spp

Dual Screen

960 × 680 108, 112 7:5 Sun stereo 16 8

800 × 600 75 4:3 VESA 16 8

640 × 480 60, 72, 75 4:3 VESA 16 8

Note – Not all resolutions are supported by all displays (that is, monitors,

projectors, and so on). Using resolutions that are not supported by the display might
damage the display. Refer to your display manual for supported resolutions.

Listing Video Formats

● To list all graphics devices on your system, type:

host% fbconfig -list

● To list available resolutions for your display device, type:

host% fbconfig -dev kfb0 -res \?

Video Display Ports

The Sun XVR-2500 graphics accelerators provide two DVI video output ports. Each
DVI video port supports both analog (DVI-A) and digital (DVI-D) video formats.
Although the DVI port supports both analog and digital video formats, they cannot
be used simultaneously from the individual DVI port.

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