1.\" $NetBSD: pckbd.4,v 1.25 2020/07/13 11:14:12 nia Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1999 4.\" Matthias Drochner. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 16.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 17.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 18.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 19.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 20.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 21.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 22.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 23.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 24.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 25.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 26.\" 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