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55.Dd $Mdocdate: May 11 2019 $
56.Dt UKBD 4
57.Os
58.Sh NAME
59.Nm ukbd
60.Nd USB keyboard support
61.Sh SYNOPSIS
62.Cd "ukbd*  at uhidev?"
63.Cd "wskbd* at ukbd?"
64.Cd "option UKBD_LAYOUT=XXX"
65.Sh DESCRIPTION
66The
67.Nm
68driver provides support for USB keyboards i.e. HID devices in the
69.Dq keyboard
70class.
71Access to the keyboard is through the
72.Xr wskbd 4
73driver.
74.Pp
75The
76.Nm
77driver supports a number of different key mappings which
78can be chosen from with the kernel option
79.Dq UKBD_LAYOUT
80at compile time or with the utility
81.Xr wsconsctl 8
82(variable:
83.Dq keyboard.encoding )
84at runtime.
85Other mappings can be used if the whole keymap is replaced by means of
86.Xr wsconsctl 8 .
87The built-in mappings are at this time:
88.Pp
89.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
90.It KB_BE
91.Pq be
92Belgium French.
93.It KB_BR
94.Pq br
95Brazilian.
96.It KB_CF
97.Pq cf
98Canadian French.
99.It KB_DE
100.Pq de
101German with
102.Dq dead accents .
103.It KB_DK
104.Pq dk
105Danish with
106.Dq dead accents .
107.It KB_ES
108.Pq es
109Spanish.
110.It KB_FR
111.Pq fr
112French.
113.It KB_FR | KB_APPLE
114.Pq fr.apple
115French for
116.Tn Apple
117black USB keyboards.
118.It KB_FR | KB_DVORAK
119.Pq fr.dvorak
120French keyboard with
121.Dq Dvorak-Bepo
122layout.
123.It KB_HU
124.Pq hu
125Hungarian.
126.It KB_IS
127.Pq is
128Icelandic with
129.Dq dead accents .
130.It KB_IT
131.Pq it
132Italian.
133.It KB_JP
134.Pq jp
135Japanese.
136.It KB_LA
137.Pq la
138Latinamerican.
139.It KB_LT
140.Pq \&lt
141Lithuanian in
142.Dq ISO 8859-13 .
143.It KB_LV
144.Pq \&lv
145Latvian
146.It KB_NL
147.Pq \&nl
148Dutch with
149.Dq dead accents .
150.It KB_NO
151.Pq no
152Norwegian with
153.Dq dead accents .
154.It KB_PL
155.Pq pl
156Polish in
157.Dq ISO 8859-2 .
158.It KB_PT
159.Pq pt
160Portuguese.
161.It KB_PT | KB_APPLE
162.Pq pt.apple
163Portuguese for
164.Tn Apple
165black USB keyboards.
166.It KB_RU
167.Pq ru
168Russian in
169.Dq KOI8 .
170.It KB_SF
171.Pq sf
172Swiss French with
173.Dq dead accents .
174.It KB_SG
175.Pq sg
176Swiss German with
177.Dq dead accents .
178.It KB_SI
179.Pq si
180Slovenian.
181.It KB_SV
182.Pq sv
183Swedish with
184.Dq dead accents .
185.It KB_TR
186.Pq tr
187Turkish in
188.Dq ISO 8859-9
189with
190.Dq dead accents .
191.It KB_UA
192.Pq ua
193Ukrainian in
194.Dq KOI8 .
195.It KB_UK
196.Pq uk
197British.
198.It KB_US
199.Pq us
200English/US keyboard mapping (default).
201.It KB_US | KB_COLEMAK
202.Pq us.colemak
203English/US keyboard with
204.Dq Colemak
205layout.
206.It KB_US | KB_DVORAK
207.Pq us.dvorak
208English/US keyboard with
209.Dq Dvorak
210layout.
211.El
212.Pp
213The KB_DE, KB_DK, KB_IS, KB_NO, KB_SF, KB_SG, KB_SV and KB_TR
214mappings can be used in the KB_NODEAD
215.Pq .nodead
216variant.
217This switches off the
218.Dq dead accents .
219.Pp
220The KB_BE, KB_FR, KB_FR | KB_APPLE, KB_FR | KB_DVORAK, KB_JP, KB_UK, KB_US,
221KB_US | KB_DVORAK and KB_US | KB_COLEMAK
222mappings can be modified
223to swap the left Control and the Caps Lock keys by the
224KB_SWAPCTRLCAPS variant bit or the
225.Dq .swapctrlcaps
226suffix.
227.Pp
228The KB_METAESC
229.Pq .metaesc
230option can be applied to any layout.
231If set, keys pressed together
232with the ALT modifier are prefixed by an ESC character.
233(Standard behaviour is to add 128 to the ASCII value.)
234.Sh EXAMPLES
235To set a German keyboard layout without
236.Dq dead accents
237and sending an ESC character before the key symbol if the ALT
238key is pressed simultaneously, use
239.Ic wsconsctl keyboard.encoding=de.nodead.metaesc .
240To set it at kernel build time, add the following
241to the kernel configuration file:
242.Bd -literal -offset indent
243option UKBD_LAYOUT="(KB_DE|KB_NODEAD|KB_METAESC)"
244.Ed
245.Sh SEE ALSO
246.Xr usbhidctl 1 ,
247.Xr intro 4 ,
248.Xr uhidev 4 ,
249.Xr usb 4 ,
250.Xr wskbd 4 ,
251.Xr wsconsctl 8
252.Sh HISTORY
253The
254.Nm
255driver
256appeared in
257.Nx 1.4 .
258.Ox
259support was added in
260.Ox 2.8 .
261.Sh BUGS
262The
263.Nm
264driver is brought into action rather late in the boot process, so if
265it is used as the console driver then
266.Xr ddb 4
267is not usable until late in the boot.
268.Pp
269The list of built-in mappings doesn't follow any logic.
270It grew as people submitted what they needed.
271