RCONS(4)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, this is rcons(4) — section 4, from the kernel interfaces manual — aka raster console access 💅✨. She’s here to give your raster console some love, but pls peep the deprecation note in DESCRIPTION before you get too attached 🫶.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the exact lines, no edits from me:

options RASTERCONSOLE_FGCOL=n
options RASTERCONSOLE_BGCOL=n
options RCONS_2BPP
options RCONS_4BPP
options RCONS_16BPP

pmax 🐚

pseudo-device rasterconsole N

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the rcons driver provides support for machine-independent access to the raster console. That's her whole thing, no cap ✨.

🚨 deprecation era: use of the rcons driver is deprecated in favour of the wscons(4) machine-independent console driver. So like, wscons(4) is the main character now — don't come for me, I don't make the rules 😭👑

The rcons driver provides simple raster and frame buffer routines. It's enough to implement a console terminal emulator on monochrome and pseudo-colour screens. That’s literally the whole slay: simple raster + frame buffer routines, enough for a console terminal emulator on monochrome and pseudo-colour screens 💅🖤.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• wscons(4) — the machine-independent console driver to check out next, bestie 👀💖

xoxo, your Debian girlie 💖 — source/version: Debian, date: September 21, 2001, manual page: rcons(4). periodt ✨