NAME

display - system console display

DESCRIPTION

display is a component of the kd driver, which is comprised of the display and keyboard drivers.

Solaris for x86 normally uses a windowed environment. The character-based display facilities offered by the display section of the kd driver are supposed to be used only until the windowing system takes over. Currently, any VGA adapter can be used to boot the system, but the windows server requires an SVGA or 8514 adapter.

See the supported hardware list in the Hardware Compatibility List for Solaris 2.6 (Intel Platform Edition) for the full list of tested adapters.

FILES

/dev/console

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Architecture	x86

SEE ALSO

attributes(5), console(7D), keyboard(7D)

Hardware Compatibility List for Solaris 2.6 (Intel Platform Edition)

Writing Device Drivers