acpivideo(4)

acpivideo4

Acpi video

Usage

acpivideo* at acpi?

Overview

The acpivideo driver supports ACPI display output switching and brightness control. Output displays can take the form of CRTs, LCDs, TV-OUTs or any similar devices that may be connected to the machine.

Caveats

On IBM and Lenovo ThinkPad systems, acpivideo functionality is handled by the acpithinkpad(4) driver.

Releases

36 releases since OpenBSD 4.6; the text changed 4 times.

  1. 4.6
  2. 4.7–4.9
  3. 5.0–5.3
  4. 5.4–6.6
  5. 6.7–8.0

History

The acpivideo driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.6.

Authors

The acpivideo driver was written by Federico G. Schwindt ⟨[email protected]⟩ and Paul Irofti ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.