UKBD(4) OpenBSD Programmer's Manual UKBD(4)
NAME
ukbd - USB keyboard support
SYNOPSIS
ukbd* at uhidev?
wskbd* at ukbd?
option UKBD_LAYOUT=XXX
DESCRIPTION
The ukbd driver provides support for USB keyboards i.e. HID devices in
the ``keyboard'' class. Access to the keyboard is through the wskbd(4)
driver.
The ukbd driver supports a number of different key mappings which can be
chosen from with the kernel option ``UKBD_LAYOUT'' at compile time or
with the utility wsconsctl(8) (variable: ``keyboard.encoding'' ) at run-
time. Other mappings can be used if the whole keymap is replaced by
means of wsconsctl(8). The built-in mappings are at this time:
KB_BE ( ``be'' ) Belgium French.
KB_BR ( ``br'' ) Brazilian.
KB_CF ( ``cf'' ) Canadian French.
KB_DE ( ``de'' ) German with ``dead accents''.
KB_DK ( ``dk'' ) Danish with ``dead accents''.
KB_ES ( ``es'' ) Spanish.
KB_FR ( ``fr'' ) French.
KB_FR | KB_APPLE ( ``fr.apple'' ) French for Apple black USB keyboards.
KB_HU ( ``hu'' ) Hungarian.
KB_IT ( ``it'' ) Italian.
KB_JP ( ``jp'' ) Japanese.
KB_LA ( ``la'' ) Latinamerican.
KB_LT ( ``lt'' ) Lithuanian in ``ISO 8859-13''.
KB_LV ( ``lv'' ) Latvian
KB_NO ( ``no'' ) Norwegian with ``dead accents''.
KB_PL ( ``pl'' ) Polish in ``ISO 8859-2''.
KB_PT ( ``pt'' ) Portuguese.
KB_PT | KB_APPLE ( ``pt.apple'' ) Portuguese for Apple black USB key-
boards.
KB_RU ( ``ru'' ) Russian in ``KOI8''.
KB_SF ( ``sf'' ) Swiss French with ``dead accents''.
KB_SG ( ``sg'' ) Swiss German with ``dead accents''.
KB_SI ( ``si'' ) Slovenian.
KB_SV ( ``sv'' ) Swedish with ``dead accents''.
KB_TR ( ``tr'' ) Turkish in ``ISO 8859-9'' with ``dead accents''.
KB_UA ( ``ua'' ) Ukrainian in ``KOI8''.
KB_UK ( ``uk'' ) British.
KB_US ( ``us'' ) English / US keyboard mapping (default).
KB_US | KB_DVORAK ( ``us.dvorak'' ) English / US keyboard with ``Dvorak''
layout.
The KB_DE, KB_DK, KB_NO, KB_SF, KB_SG, KB_SV and KB_TR mappings can be
used in the KB_NODEAD ( ``.nodead'' ) variant. This switches off the
``dead accents''.
The KB_BE, KB_FR, KB_FR | KB_APPLE, KB_JP, KB_US and KB_US | KB_DVORAK
mappings can be modified to swap the left Control and the Caps Lock keys
by the KB_SWAPCTRLCAPS variant bit or the ``.swapctrlcaps'' suffix.
The KB_METAESC ( ``.metaesc'' ) option can be applied to any layout. If
set, keys pressed together with the ALT modifier are prefixed by an ESC
character. (Standard behaviour is to add 128 to the ASCII value.)
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 keyboard.encoding=de.nodead.metaesc. To set it
at kernel build time, add the following to the kernel configuration file:
option UKBD_LAYOUT="(KB_DE|KB_NODEAD|KB_METAESC)"
SEE ALSO
usbhidctl(1), intro(4), uhidev(4), usb(4), wskbd(4), wsconsctl(8)
HISTORY
The ukbd driver appeared in NetBSD 1.4. OpenBSD support was added in
OpenBSD 2.8.
BUGS
The ukbd driver is brought into action rather late in the boot process,
so if it is used as the console driver then ddb(4) is not usable until
late in the boot.
The list of built-in mappings doesn't follow any logic. It grew as peo-
ple submitted what they needed.
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