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27.Dd September 12, 2020
28.Dt HKBD 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm hkbd
32.Nd HID keyboard driver
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34To compile this driver into the kernel,
35place the following line in your
36kernel configuration file:
37.Bd -ragged -offset indent
38.Cd "device hkbd"
39.Cd "device hid"
40.Cd "device hidbus"
41.Cd "device evdev"
42.Cd "options EVDEV_SUPPORT"
43.Ed
44.Pp
45Alternatively, to load the driver as a
46module at boot time, place the following line in
47.Xr loader.conf 5 :
48.Bd -literal -offset indent
49hkbd_load="YES"
50.Ed
51.Sh DESCRIPTION
52The
53.Nm
54driver provides support for keyboards that attach to the HID transport
55backend.
56.Xr hid 4 ,
57.Xr hidbus 4 ,
58and one of
59.Xr iichid 4
60or
61.Xr usbhid 4
62must be configured in the kernel as well.
63.Sh CONFIGURATION
64By default, the keyboard subsystem does not create the appropriate devices yet.
65Make sure you reconfigure your kernel with the following option in the kernel
66config file:
67.Pp
68.Dl "options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV"
69.Pp
70If both an AT keyboard HID keyboards are used at the same time, the
71AT keyboard will appear as
72.Pa kbd0
73in
74.Pa /dev .
75The HID keyboards will be
76.Pa kbd1 , kbd2 ,
77etc.
78You can see some information about the keyboard with the following command:
79.Pp
80.Dl "kbdcontrol -i < /dev/kbd1"
81.Pp
82or load a keymap with
83.Pp
84.Dl "kbdcontrol -l keymaps/pt.iso < /dev/kbd1"
85.Pp
86See
87.Xr kbdcontrol 1
88for more possible options.
89.Pp
90You can swap console keyboards by using the command
91.Pp
92.Dl "kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1"
93.Pp
94From this point on, the first HID keyboard will be the keyboard
95to be used by the console.
96.Pp
97If you want to use a HID keyboard as your default and not use an AT keyboard at
98all, you will have to remove the
99.Cd "device atkbd"
100line from the kernel configuration file.
101Because of the device initialization order,
102the HID keyboard will be detected
103.Em after
104the console driver
105initializes itself and you have to explicitly tell the console
106driver to use the existence of the HID keyboard.
107This can be done in
108one of the following two ways.
109.Pp
110Run the following command as a part of system initialization:
111.Pp
112.Dl "kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd0 < /dev/ttyv0 > /dev/null"
113.Pp
114(Note that as the HID keyboard is the only keyboard, it is accessed as
115.Pa /dev/kbd0 )
116or otherwise tell the console driver to periodically look for a
117keyboard by setting a flag in the kernel configuration file:
118.Pp
119.Dl "device sc0 at isa? flags 0x100"
120.Pp
121With the above flag, the console driver will try to detect any
122keyboard in the system if it did not detect one while it was
123initialized at boot time.
124.Sh DRIVER CONFIGURATION
125.D1 Cd "options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV"
126.Pp
127Make the keyboards available through a character device in
128.Pa /dev .
129.Pp
130.D1 Cd options HKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP
131.D1 Cd makeoptions HKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=fr.iso
132.Pp
133The above lines will put the French ISO keymap in the ukbd driver.
134You can specify any keymap in
135.Pa /usr/share/syscons/keymaps
136or
137.Pa /usr/share/vt/keymaps
138(depending on the console driver being used) with this option.
139.Pp
140.D1 Cd "options KBD_DISABLE_KEYMAP_LOADING"
141.Pp
142Do not allow the user to change the keymap.
143Note that these options also affect the AT keyboard driver,
144.Xr atkbd 4 .
145.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
146The following variables are available as both
147.Xr sysctl 8
148variables and
149.Xr loader 8
150tunables:
151.Bl -tag -width indent
152.It Va hw.hid.hkbd.debug
153Debug output level, where 0 is debugging disabled and larger values increase
154debug message verbosity.
155Default is 0.
156.El
157.Sh FILES
158.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/input/event*" -compact
159.It Pa /dev/kbd*
160blocking device nodes
161.It Pa /dev/input/event*
162input event device nodes.
163.El
164.Sh EXAMPLES
165.D1 Cd "device hkbd"
166.Pp
167Add the
168.Nm
169driver to the kernel.
170.Sh SEE ALSO
171.Xr kbdcontrol 1 ,
172.Xr hid 4 ,
173.Xr hidbus 4 ,
174.Xr iichid 4 ,
175.Xr syscons 4 ,
176.Xr usbhid 4 ,
177.Xr vt 4 ,
178.Xr config 8
179.Sh AUTHORS
180.An -nosplit
181The
182.Nm
183driver was written by
184.An Lennart Augustsson Aq Mt augustss@cs.chalmers.se
185for
186.Nx
187and was substantially rewritten for
188.Fx
189by
190.An Kazutaka YOKOTA Aq Mt yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp .
191.Pp
192This manual page was written by
193.An Nick Hibma Aq Mt n_hibma@FreeBSD.org
194with a large amount of input from
195.An Kazutaka YOKOTA Aq Mt yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp .
196