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24.Dd January 23, 2021
25.Dt HCONS 4
26.Os
27.Sh NAME
28.Nm hcons
29.Nd HID consumer page controls driver
30.Sh SYNOPSIS
31To compile this driver into the kernel,
32place the following lines in your
33kernel configuration file:
34.Bd -ragged -offset indent
35.Cd "device hcons"
36.Cd "device hid"
37.Cd "device hidbus"
38.Cd "device hidmap"
39.Cd "device evdev"
40.Ed
41.Pp
42Alternatively, to load the driver as a
43module at boot time, place the following line in
44.Xr loader.conf 5 :
45.Bd -literal -offset indent
46hcons_load="YES"
47.Ed
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm
51driver provides support for HID consumer page controls most often used as
52"Multimedia keys" found on many keyboards.
53.Pp
54The
55.Pa /dev/input/event*
56device presents the consumer page controls as a
57.Ar evdev
58type device.
59.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
60The following variable is available as both
61.Xr sysctl 8
62variable and
63.Xr loader 8
64tunable:
65.Bl -tag -width indent
66.It Va dev.hcons.X.debug
67Debug output level, where 0 is debugging disabled and larger values increase
68debug message verbosity.
69Default is 0.
70.El
71.Pp
72It default value is set with
73.Xr loader 8
74tunable:
75.Bl -tag -width indent
76.It Va hw.hid.hcons.debug
77.El
78.Sh FILES
79.Bl -tag -width /dev/input/event* -compact
80.It Pa /dev/input/event*
81input event device node.
82.El
83.Sh SEE ALSO
84.Xr iichid 4 ,
85.Xr usbhid 4
86.Sh HISTORY
87The
88.Nm
89driver first appeared in
90.Fx 13.0 .
91.Sh AUTHORS
92.An -nosplit
93The
94.Nm
95driver was written by
96.An Vladimir Kondratyev Aq Mt wulf@FreeBSD.org .
97