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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
| commit | 6d8bdc65446a704d0750217efd05532fc641ea7d (patch) | |
| tree | 8ae6d698b3c9801750a8b117b3842fb369872a3a /static/openbsd/man4/vga.4 | |
| parent | 2f467bd7ff8f8db0dafa40426166491d7f57f368 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man4/vga.4 b/static/openbsd/man4/vga.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5bb610fc --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man4/vga.4 @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: vga.4,v 1.17 2013/10/19 14:32:45 miod Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: vga.4,v 1.2.4.1 2000/08/09 07:48:40 drochner Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1999, 2000 +.\" Matthias Drochner. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 19 2013 $ +.Dt VGA 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm vga +.Nd VGA graphics driver for wscons +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "vga0 at isa?" +.Cd "vga* at pci?" +.Cd "wsdisplay* at vga?" +.Cd "agp* at vga?" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +This driver handles VGA graphics hardware within the +.Xr wscons 4 +console framework. +It doesn't provide direct device driver entry points but makes its +functions available via the internal +.Xr wsdisplay 4 +interface. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports multiple virtual screens on one physical display. +The screens allocated on one display can be of different +.Dq types , +where a type refers to various display properties. +The type is determined at the time the virtual screen is created and can't +be changed later. +Screens are either created at kernel startup (then the default type is used) +or later with help of the +.Xr wsconscfg 8 +utility. +.Pp +Currently, the following screen types are supported: +.Bl -hang +.It 80x25 +This is the standard VGA text mode with 80 columns and 25 rows. +16 different colors can be displayed at the same time. +Characters are 8 x 16 pixels large, and a font consists of 256 characters. +A built-in font of this size is always present on a VGA card. +It's also possible to use a downloaded font instead. +.It 80x25bf +A modified version of the previous. +It only allows 8 colors to be displayed. +In exchange, it can access two fonts at the same time, so that 512 +different characters can be displayed. +.It 80x40 +A text mode with 80 columns and 40 rows. +Similar to the standard mode, 16 colors and 256 characters are available. +Characters are 8 x 10 pixels large. +For this mode to be useful, a font of that character size must be downloaded. +.It 80x40bf +A modified version of the previous. +It only allows 8 colors to be displayed. +In exchange, it can access two fonts at the same time, so that 512 +different characters can be displayed. +.It 80x50 +A text mode with 80 columns and 50 rows. +Similar to the standard mode, 16 colors and 256 characters are available. +Characters are 8 x 8 pixels large. +For this mode to be useful, a font of that character size must be downloaded. +.It 80x50bf +A modified version of the previous. +It only allows 8 colors to be displayed. +In exchange, it can access two fonts at the same time, so that 512 +different characters can be displayed. +.It 80x24 +A variant of the +.Dq 80x25 +screen type which displays 24 lines only. +It uses the standard 8x16 VGA font. +This mode might be useful for applications which depend on closer +DEC VT100 compatibility. +.It 80x24bf +A modified version of the previous. +It only allows 8 colors to be displayed. +In exchange, it can access two fonts at the same time, so that 512 +different characters can be displayed. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver can display fonts of the original IBM type and ISO-8859-1 encoded fonts. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr agp 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr isa 4 , +.Xr pcdisplay 4 , +.Xr pci 4 , +.Xr wscons 4 , +.Xr wsdisplay 4 , +.Xr wsconscfg 8 , +.Xr wsfontload 8 +.Sh BUGS +Only a subset of the possible text modes is supported. +.Pp +VGA cards are supposed to emulate an MDA if a monochrome display is connected. +In this case, the device will naturally not support colors at all, but +offer the capability to display underlined characters instead. +The +.Dq 80x25bf , +.Dq 80x40bf , +.Dq 80x50bf , +and +.Dq 80x24bf +screen types will not be available. +This mode of operation is not tested. |
