lcd(4)

lcd4

Front panel lcd display

Usage

lcd0 at mainbus0

Overview

The lcd driver provides support for the front panel LCD display found on newer HP PA-RISC workstations and servers. This LCD can be made to show a heartbeat based on the load average by setting the sysctl(2) variable machdep.led_blink to a non-zero value.

History

The lcd driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.2.

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