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BW(4S)  —  System Manager’s Manual — Special Files

NAME

bw − Sun black and white frame buffer

SYNOPSIS

TBD. 

DESCRIPTION

The bw interface provides access to the Sun Workstation black-and-white graphics controller boards.  It supports the FBIOGTYPE ioctl which a program can use to inquire as to the characteristics of the display device; see fbio(4S)

Reading or writing to the frame buffer is not allowed − you must use the mmap(2) system call to map the board into your address space.

FILES

/dev/bw[0-9]

SEE ALSO

mmap(2), cg(4S), fbio(4S)
Sun 1024 Video Board − User Manual (Sun 800-0420)

DIAGNOSTICS

None. 

BUGS

Use of vertical-retrace interrupts is not supported. 

Sun System Release 1.0  —  11 August 1983

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