pcdisplay(4)

pcdisplay4

Pc display adapter driver for wscons

Usage

pcdisplay0 at isa? wsdisplay* at pcdisplay? option PCDISPLAY_SOFTCURSOR

Overview

This driver supports PC display adapter hardware within the wscons(4) console framework. It doesn't provide direct device driver entry points but makes its functions available via the internal wsdisplay(4) interface.

The pcdisplay driver is intended as a minimal “catch-all” driver for the different kinds of MDA, CGA and EGA compatible adapters. It doesn't support multiple screens, nor colors or font loading.

Supported kernel option(s):

option PCDISPLAY_SOFTCURSOR

Use a large, non-blinking cursor generated by software. The default is to use the cursor provided by the underlying display hardware.

Releases

53 releases since OpenBSD 2.9; the text changed 6 times.

  1. 2.9
  2. 3.0–3.2
  3. 3.3
  4. 3.4
  5. 3.5–3.6
  6. 3.7–4.1
  7. 4.2–8.0

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