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PCKBD(4)                     Device Drivers 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
     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)

NetBSD 10.99                     July 13, 2020                    NetBSD 10.99