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).
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)"