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18.Dd February 17, 2017
19.Dt LCD 4 hppa
20.Os
21.Sh NAME
22.Nm lcd
23.Nd front panel LCD display
24.Sh SYNOPSIS
25.Cd "lcd0 at mainbus0"
26.Sh DESCRIPTION
27The
28.Nm
29driver provides support for the front panel LCD display found on newer
30HP PA-RISC workstations and servers.
31This LCD can be made to show a heartbeat based on the load average by
32setting the
33.Xr sysctl 3
34variable
35.Ar machdep.lcd_blink
36to a non-zero value.
37.Sh SEE ALSO
38.Xr sysctl 3 ,
39.Xr hppa/intro 4 ,
40.Xr sysctl 8
41.Sh HISTORY
42.An -nosplit
43The
44.Nm
45driver first appeared in
46.Ox 4.2 .
47It was ported to
48.Nx 6.0
49by
50.An Adam Hoka
51and
52.An Nick Hudson .
53