1.\" $NetBSD: pckbd.4,v 1.21 2011/08/02 10:04:07 wiz 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 22, 2011 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 . 59The builtin mappings are at this time: 60.Bl -column " KB_US|KB_COLEMAK" "wsconsctl" "language" 61.It Sy "option" Ta Sy "wsconsctl" Ta Sy "language" 62.It Li KB_US Ta us Ta English/US keyboard mapping (default) 63.It Li KB_UK Ta uk Ta English/UK keyboard mapping 64.It Li KB_BE Ta be Ta Belgian 65.It Li KB_CZ Ta cz Ta Czech (QWERTY) 66.It Li KB_DK Ta dk Ta Danish with 67.Dq dead accents 68.It Li KB_NL Ta nl Ta Dutch 69.It Li KB_FI Ta fi Ta Finnish 70.It Li KB_FR Ta fr Ta French 71.It Li KB_DE Ta de Ta German with 72.Dq dead accents 73.It Li KB_GR Ta gr Ta Greek 74.It Li KB_HU Ta hu Ta Hungarian 75.It Li KB_IT Ta it Ta Italian 76.It Li KB_JP Ta jp Ta Japanese 77.It Li KB_NO Ta no Ta Norwegian with 78.Dq dead accents 79.It Li KB_PL Ta pl Ta Polish 80.It Li KB_PT Ta pt Ta Portuguese 81.It Li KB_RU Ta ru Ta Russian 82.It Li KB_ES Ta es Ta Spanish 83.It Li KB_SV Ta sv Ta Swedish with 84.Dq dead accents 85.It Li KB_SF Ta sf Ta Swiss French 86.It Li KB_SG Ta sg Ta Swiss German 87.It Li KB_UA Ta ua Ta Ukrainian 88.It Li "KB_US|KB_DECLK" Ta \&us.declk Ta English/US mapping for Tn DEC 89.It Ta Ta LK400-style keyboards with PC keyboard 90.It Ta Ta interface (e.g., LK461) 91.It Li "KB_US|KB_DVORAK" Ta us.dvorak Ta English/US keyboard with 92.It Ta Ta Do Dvorak Dc layout 93.It Li "KB_US|KB_COLEMAK" Ta us.colemak Ta English/US keyboard with 94.It Ta Ta Do Colemak Dc layout 95.El 96.Pp 97The 98.Li KB_DE , 99.Li KB_DK , 100.Li KB_NO 101and 102.Li KB_SV 103mappings can be used in the 104.Li KB_NODEAD ( 105.Dq .nodead ) 106variant. 107This switches off the 108.Dq dead accents . 109.Pp 110The 111.Li KB_US , 112.Li KB_JP 113and 114.Li KB_US|KB_DVORAK 115mappings can be modified 116to swap the left CTRL and the CAPS LOCK keys by the 117.Li KB_SWAPCTRLCAPS 118variant bit or the 119.Dq .swapctrlcaps 120suffix. 121.Pp 122The 123.Li KB_METAESC ( 124.Dq .metaesc ) 125option can be applied to any layout. 126If set, keys pressed together 127with the ALT modifier are prefixed by an ESC character. 128(Standard behaviour is to add 128 to the ASCII value.) 129.Pp 130Because PC keyboard hardware doesn't contain a beeper, requests for 131.Dq keyboard beeps 132cannot be handled directly. 133On alpha and i386 a helper device attached 134to the 135.Xr pcppi 4 136driver allows the use of the standard ISA speaker for this purpose. 137On acorn32, 138.Xr vidcaudio 4 139performs this function. 140.Sh EXAMPLES 141To set a German keyboard layout without 142.Dq dead accents 143and sending an ESC character before the key symbol if the ALT 144key is pressed simultaneously, use 145.Ic wsconsctl Fl w Ar encoding=de.nodead.metaesc . 146To set it at kernel build time, add 147.D1 Cd options PCKBD_LAYOUT="(KB_DE | KB_NODEAD | KB_METAESC)" 148to the kernel configuration file. 149.Sh SEE ALSO 150.Xr isa 4 , 151.Xr pcppi 4 , 152.Xr wskbd 4 , 153.Xr wsconsctl 8 154.Sh BUGS 155The list of builtin mappings doesn't follow any logic. 156It grew as people submitted what they needed. 157