NAME

display − system console display

AVAILABILITY

x86

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 Solaris 2.4 x86 Hardware Compatibility List for the full list of tested adapters. 

FILES

/dev/console

SEE ALSO

console(7D), keyboard(7D)

Solaris 2.5 x86 Hardware Compatibility List

Writing Device Drivers

SunOS 5.5  —  Last change: 18 Oct 1993