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.Dd February 17, 2017
.Dt LCD 4 hppa
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm lcd
.Nd front panel LCD display
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "lcd0 at mainbus0"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for the front panel LCD display found on newer
HP PA-RISC workstations and servers.
This LCD can be made to show a heartbeat based on the load average by
setting the
.Xr sysctl 3
variable
.Ar machdep.lcd_blink
to a non-zero value.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sysctl 3 ,
.Xr hppa/intro 4 ,
.Xr sysctl 8
.Sh HISTORY
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Ox 4.2 .
It was ported to
.Nx 6.0
by
.An Adam Hoka
and
.An Nick Hudson .