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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/wsdisplay.4 | 16 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/wsdisplay.4 b/share/man/man4/wsdisplay.4 index b3eb44fef1f..46f31932864 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/wsdisplay.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/wsdisplay.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: wsdisplay.4,v 1.33 2005/05/15 19:36:21 miod Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: wsdisplay.4,v 1.34 2005/06/02 07:34:12 miod Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: wsdisplay.4,v 1.5 2000/05/13 15:22:19 mycroft Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2005, Miodrag Vallat. @@ -82,17 +82,13 @@ framework. It attaches to the hardware specific display device driver and makes it available as text terminal or graphics interface. .Pp -A display device can have the ability to display characters on it +Display devices have the ability to display characters on them (without help of an X server), either directly by hardware or through software drawing pixel data into the display memory. -Such displays are called -.Dq emulating , -the +The .Nm driver will connect a terminal emulation module and provide a tty-like software interface. -In contrary, non-emulating displays can only be used by special programs -like X servers. .Pp The .Em console @@ -104,9 +100,6 @@ if the device is in use as system console. This way, the console device can be connected to a known .Nm wsdisplay device instance. -(Naturally, only -.Dq emulating -display devices are usable as console.) .Pp The .Em mux @@ -603,6 +596,3 @@ The terms and .Dq wsdisplay are not cleanly distinguished in the code and in manual pages. -.Pp -.Dq non-emulating -display devices are not tested. |