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.Dd July 13, 2020 .Dt PCKBD 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm pckbd .Nd PC keyboard driver for wscons .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd pckbc* at isa? .Cd pckbd* at pckbc? .Cd "wskbd* at pckbd? console ?" .Cd options PCKBD_LAYOUT=XXX .Sh DESCRIPTION This driver supports PC/AT keyboards within the .Xr wscons 4 console framework. It doesn't provide direct device driver entry points but makes its functions available via the internal .Xr wskbd 4 interface.
p The .Nm driver supports a number of different key mappings which can be chosen from with the kernel option .Li PCKBD_LAYOUT at compile time or with the utility .Xr wsconsctl 8 (variable: .Dq encoding ) at runtime. Other mappings can be used if the whole keymap is replaced by means of .Xr wsconsctl 8 .
p Because PC keyboard hardware doesn't contain a beeper, requests for .Dq keyboard beeps cannot be handled directly. On alpha and i386 a helper device attached to the .Xr pcppi 4 driver allows the use of the standard ISA speaker for this purpose. On acorn32, .Xr acorn32/vidcaudio 4 performs this function. .Sh EXAMPLES To set a German keyboard layout without .Dq dead accents and sending an ESC character before the key symbol if the ALT key is pressed simultaneously, use c wsconsctl Fl w Ar encoding=de.nodead.metaesc . To set it at kernel build time, add .D1 Cd options PCKBD_LAYOUT="(KB_DE | KB_NODEAD | KB_METAESC)" to the kernel configuration file. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr isa 4 , .Xr pcppi 4 , .Xr wskbd 4 , .Xr wsconsctl 8
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