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PCKBD(4)                NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual               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 frame-
     work.  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 map-
     pings 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 stan-
     dard ISA speaker for this purpose.  On acorn32, acorn32/vidcaudio(4) per-
     forms 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 simultane-
     ously, 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)

NetBSD 10.1                      July 13, 2020                     NetBSD 10.1