vgafb(4)

vgafb4

Vga frame buffer

Usage

# sparc64, macppc vgafb* at pci? wsdisplay* at vgafb?

Overview

The vgafb is a memory based color frame buffer driver for the wscons(4) console framework. It does not provide direct device driver entry points but makes its functions available via the internal wsdisplay(4) interface. Both unaccelerated access as a dumb framebuffer and accelerated access methods are provided to wscons(4).

Releases

43 releases since OpenBSD 3.9; the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.9–4.1
  2. 4.2–6.3
  3. 6.4–8.0

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