AMIDISPLAYCC(4) Device Drivers Manual (amiga) AMIDISPLAYCC(4)

NAME

amidisplayccwscons interface to amiga custom chips drivers

SYNOPSIS

amidisplaycc0 at mainbus0
wsdisplay0 at amidisplaycc0

DESCRIPTION

This device acts as an adapter between the wscons(4) framework and the Amiga custom chip driver functions. It exports the internal wsdisplay(4) interface and contains the necessary rendering functions to operate a text terminal with virtual screens. It uses the Amiga abstract graphic driver (grfabs) functions for the low-level display management.
Currently it does not support running X. It can however coexist well enough with grf0 to make possible running X the old way, but be warned, you cannot switch screens while in X and when quitting it, it seems to hang. Switching a screen then will bring up the text console.
It supports foreground and background color, and the hilite (bold), underline, and reverse text attributes.

Virtual terminals and screen types

The number of virtual screens is limited only by the available chip memory.
Each virtual screen can have a different screen type. A screen type defines the following things: height and width in pixels, number of colors, and font size. The supported screen types are listed below.
The grfabs code determines the actual screen mode that is used. The config options GRF_NTSC, GRF_PAL, GRF_AGA, etc. determine what kind of chipsets/modes are available.

Fonts

Fonts of width 8 and any height are supported. Fonts can be compiled into the kernel by specifying "options FONT_[fontname]" in the configuration file, or loaded with the wsfontload(8) utility runtime.

SEE ALSO

wscons(4), wsdisplay(4), wsfontload(8), wsfont(9)
November 12, 2003 NetBSD 8.2