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). The builtin
mappings are at this time:
option |
wsconsctl |
language |
KB_US |
us |
English/US keyboard mapping (default) |
KB_UK |
uk |
English/UK keyboard mapping |
KB_BE |
be |
Belgian |
KB_CZ |
cz |
Czech (QWERTY) |
KB_DK |
dk |
Danish with “dead accents” |
KB_NL |
nl |
Dutch |
KB_FI |
fi |
Finnish |
KB_FR |
fr |
French |
KB_DE |
de |
German with “dead accents” |
KB_GR |
gr |
Greek |
KB_HU |
hu |
Hungarian |
KB_IT |
it |
Italian |
KB_JP |
jp |
Japanese |
KB_NO |
no |
Norwegian with “dead accents” |
KB_PL |
pl |
Polish |
KB_PT |
pt |
Portuguese |
KB_RU |
ru |
Russian |
KB_ES |
es |
Spanish |
KB_SV |
sv |
Swedish with “dead accents” |
KB_SF |
sf |
Swiss French |
KB_SG |
sg |
Swiss German |
KB_UA |
ua |
Ukrainian |
KB_US|KB_DECLK |
us.declk |
English/US mapping for DEC |
|
|
LK400-style keyboards with PC keyboard |
|
|
interface (e.g., LK461) |
KB_US|KB_DVORAK |
us.dvorak |
English/US keyboard with |
|
|
“Dvorak” layout |
KB_US|KB_COLEMAK |
us.colemak |
English/US keyboard with |
|
|
“Colemak” layout |
The
KB_DE
,
KB_DK
,
KB_NO
and
KB_SV
mappings can
be used in the
KB_NODEAD
( “.nodead”)
variant. This switches off the “dead accents”.
The
KB_US
,
KB_JP
and
KB_US|KB_DVORAK
mappings can be modified to swap the
left CTRL and the CAPS LOCK keys by the
KB_SWAPCTRLCAPS
variant bit or the
“.swapctrlcaps” suffix.
The
KB_METAESC
( “.metaesc”) option can be
applied to any layout. If set, keys pressed together with the ALT modifier are
prefixed by an ESC character. (Standard behaviour is to add 128 to the ASCII
value.)
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)"
to the kernel configuration file.
SEE ALSO
isa(4),
pcppi(4),
wskbd(4),
wsconsctl(8)
BUGS
The list of builtin mappings doesn't follow any logic. It grew as people
submitted what they needed.