[rescue] SX/cg14 question / oddity

[vom513]

Hello all,

Might not be an “oddity” - might be my lack of knowledge of the nuances of this display.

I have an SS20 with an 8mb VSIMM.  Been working just fine for a long time - 1280x1024 at 76 - 24 bit.  I.e. the max.

Today I booted it up - it had been off for a week or two.  I got the screen that seems like the PROM/NVRAM was replaced (it wasn’t).  However mac address / hostid were still there.  I did a “set-defaults” here… So this is the first head scratcher.  (Could this be a sign that the NVRAM is nearing battery failure ?)

After this, I noticed my screen didn’t quite look right - and was confirmed with the monitor info display as well as xdpyinfo in NetBSD.  It was in 1152x900. 

So I went back to OBP and did the setenv output-device to set it to 1280x1024x76.  Then a reset.  Still coming up in 1152x900.  In NetBSD ‘eeprom’ confirmed that the NVRAM setting was indeed there and correct.

Is that setting just for what the console should use ?

The reason I ask that - is I booted Solaris and ran the cg14config tool and set it.  Only after doing this (and a reboot) - did my display finally come back to 1280x1024.

Is there some bit of config for the CG14 that’s stored in NVRAM but not able to be set through OBP commands ?  That’s certainly what it feels like.  If that’s the case - I would also need some Solaris image/disk on hand to run this tool as from what I can tell there is no such cg14config(-like) tool in NetBSD.

Thanks for any info or guidance.