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27.Dd July 13, 2020
28.Dt PCKBD 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm pckbd
32.Nd PC keyboard driver for wscons
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd pckbc* at isa?
35.Cd pckbd* at pckbc?
36.Cd "wskbd* at pckbd? console ?"
37.Cd options PCKBD_LAYOUT=XXX
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39This driver supports PC/AT keyboards within the
40.Xr wscons 4
41console framework.
42It doesn't provide direct device driver entry points but makes its
43functions available via the internal
44.Xr wskbd 4
45interface.
46.Pp
47The
48.Nm
49driver supports a number of different key mappings which
50can be chosen from with the kernel option
51.Li PCKBD_LAYOUT
52at compile time or with the utility
53.Xr wsconsctl 8
54(variable:
55.Dq encoding )
56at runtime.
57Other mappings can be used if the whole keymap is replaced by means of
58.Xr wsconsctl 8 .
59.Pp
60Because PC keyboard hardware doesn't contain a beeper, requests for
61.Dq keyboard beeps
62cannot be handled directly.
63On alpha and i386 a helper device attached
64to the
65.Xr pcppi 4
66driver allows the use of the standard ISA speaker for this purpose.
67On acorn32,
68.Xr acorn32/vidcaudio 4
69performs this function.
70.Sh EXAMPLES
71To set a German keyboard layout without
72.Dq dead accents
73and sending an ESC character before the key symbol if the ALT
74key is pressed simultaneously, use
75.Ic wsconsctl Fl w Ar encoding=de.nodead.metaesc .
76To set it at kernel build time, add
77.D1 Cd options PCKBD_LAYOUT="(KB_DE | KB_NODEAD | KB_METAESC)"
78to the kernel configuration file.
79.Sh SEE ALSO
80.Xr isa 4 ,
81.Xr pcppi 4 ,
82.Xr wskbd 4 ,
83.Xr wsconsctl 8
84