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55.Dd $Mdocdate: August 9 2008 $
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_IT
127.Pq it
128Italian.
129.It KB_JP
130.Pq jp
131Japanese.
132.It KB_LA
133.Pq la
134Latinamerican.
135.It KB_LT
136.Pq \&lt
137Lithuanian in
138.Dq ISO 8859-13 .
139.It KB_LV
140.Pq \&lv
141Latvian
142.It KB_NL
143.Pq \&nl
144Dutch with
145.Dq dead accents .
146.It KB_NO
147.Pq no
148Norwegian with
149.Dq dead accents .
150.It KB_PL
151.Pq pl
152Polish in
153.Dq ISO 8859-2 .
154.It KB_PT
155.Pq pt
156Portuguese.
157.It KB_PT | KB_APPLE
158.Pq pt.apple
159Portuguese for
160.Tn Apple
161black USB keyboards.
162.It KB_RU
163.Pq ru
164Russian in
165.Dq KOI8 .
166.It KB_SF
167.Pq sf
168Swiss French with
169.Dq dead accents .
170.It KB_SG
171.Pq sg
172Swiss German with
173.Dq dead accents .
174.It KB_SI
175.Pq si
176Slovenian.
177.It KB_SV
178.Pq sv
179Swedish with
180.Dq dead accents .
181.It KB_TR
182.Pq tr
183Turkish in
184.Dq ISO 8859-9
185with
186.Dq dead accents .
187.It KB_UA
188.Pq ua
189Ukrainian in
190.Dq KOI8 .
191.It KB_UK
192.Pq uk
193British.
194.It KB_US
195.Pq us
196English/US keyboard mapping (default).
197.It KB_US | KB_DVORAK
198.Pq us.dvorak
199English/US keyboard with
200.Dq Dvorak
201layout.
202.El
203.Pp
204The KB_DE, KB_DK, KB_NO, KB_SF, KB_SG, KB_SV and KB_TR mappings can be used in
205the KB_NODEAD
206.Pq .nodead
207variant.
208This switches off the
209.Dq dead accents .
210.Pp
211The KB_BE, KB_FR, KB_FR |�KB_APPLE, KB_FR | KB_DVORAK, KB_JP, KB_US and
212KB_US | KB_DVORAK
213mappings can be modified
214to swap the left Control and the Caps Lock keys by the
215KB_SWAPCTRLCAPS variant bit or the
216.Dq .swapctrlcaps
217suffix.
218.Pp
219The KB_METAESC
220.Pq .metaesc
221option can be applied to any layout.
222If set, keys pressed together
223with the ALT modifier are prefixed by an ESC character.
224(Standard behaviour is to add 128 to the ASCII value.)
225.Sh EXAMPLES
226To set a German keyboard layout without
227.Dq dead accents
228and sending an ESC character before the key symbol if the ALT
229key is pressed simultaneously, use
230.Ic wsconsctl -w keyboard.encoding=de.nodead.metaesc .
231To set it at kernel build time, add the following
232to the kernel configuration file:
233.Bd -literal -offset indent
234option UKBD_LAYOUT="(KB_DE|KB_NODEAD|KB_METAESC)"
235.Ed
236.Sh SEE ALSO
237.Xr usbhidctl 1 ,
238.Xr intro 4 ,
239.Xr uhidev 4 ,
240.Xr usb 4 ,
241.Xr wskbd 4 ,
242.Xr wsconsctl 8
243.Sh HISTORY
244The
245.Nm
246driver
247appeared in
248.Nx 1.4 .
249.Ox
250support was added in
251.Ox 2.8 .
252.Sh BUGS
253The
254.Nm
255driver is brought into action rather late in the boot process, so if
256it is used as the console driver then
257.Xr ddb 4
258is not usable until late in the boot.
259.Pp
260The list of built-in mappings doesn't follow any logic.
261It grew as people submitted what they needed.
262