NAME
pckbd —
PC keyboard driver for
wscons
SYNOPSIS
pckbc* at isa?
pckbd* at pckbc?
wskbd* at pckbd? console ?
options PCKBD_LAYOUT=XXX
DESCRIPTION
This driver supports PC/AT keyboards within the wscons(4) console framework. It doesn't provide direct device driver entry points but makes its functions available via the internal wskbd(4) interface.The pckbd driver supports a number of
different key mappings which can be chosen from with the kernel option
PCKBD_LAYOUT at compile time or with the utility
wsconsctl(8) (variable: “encoding”) at runtime. Other
mappings can be used if the whole keymap is replaced by means of
wsconsctl(8). The builtin mappings are at this time:
| option | wsconsctl | language |
KB_US |
us | English/US keyboard mapping (default) |
KB_UK |
uk | English/UK keyboard mapping |
KB_BE |
be | Belgian |
KB_CZ |
cz | Czech (QWERTY) |
KB_DK |
dk | Danish with “dead accents” |
KB_NL |
nl | Dutch |
KB_FI |
fi | Finnish |
KB_FR |
fr | French |
KB_DE |
de | German with “dead accents” |
KB_GR |
gr | Greek |
KB_HU |
hu | Hungarian |
KB_IT |
it | Italian |
KB_JP |
jp | Japanese |
KB_NO |
no | Norwegian with “dead accents” |
KB_PL |
pl | Polish |
KB_PT |
pt | Portuguese |
KB_RU |
ru | Russian |
KB_ES |
es | Spanish |
KB_SV |
sv | Swedish with “dead accents” |
KB_SF |
sf | Swiss French |
KB_SG |
sg | Swiss German |
KB_UA |
ua | Ukrainian |
KB_US|KB_DECLK |
us.declk | English/US mapping for DEC |
| LK400-style keyboards with PC keyboard | ||
| interface (e.g., LK461) | ||
KB_US|KB_DVORAK |
us.dvorak | English/US keyboard with |
| “Dvorak” layout | ||
KB_US|KB_COLEMAK |
us.colemak | English/US keyboard with |
| “Colemak” layout |
The KB_DE, KB_DK,
KB_NO and KB_SV mappings can
be used in the KB_NODEAD ( “.nodead”)
variant. This switches off the “dead accents”.
The KB_US, KB_JP
and KB_US|KB_DVORAK mappings can be modified to swap
the left CTRL and the CAPS LOCK keys by the
KB_SWAPCTRLCAPS variant bit or the
“.swapctrlcaps” suffix.
The KB_METAESC ( “.metaesc”)
option can be applied to any layout. If set, keys pressed together with the
ALT modifier are prefixed by an ESC character. (Standard behaviour is to add
128 to the ASCII value.)
Because PC keyboard hardware doesn't contain a beeper, requests for “keyboard beeps” cannot be handled directly. On alpha and i386 a helper device attached to the pcppi(4) driver allows the use of the standard ISA speaker for this purpose. On acorn32, vidcaudio(4) performs this function.
EXAMPLES
To set a German keyboard layout without “dead
accents” and sending an ESC character before the key symbol if the
ALT key is pressed simultaneously, use wsconsctl
-w encoding=de.nodead.metaesc.
To set it at kernel build time, add
options
PCKBD_LAYOUT="(KB_DE | KB_NODEAD |
KB_METAESC)"SEE ALSO
BUGS
The list of builtin mappings doesn't follow any logic. It grew as people submitted what they needed.