PCKBD(4)

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).

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, 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)