1.\" $Id: kbdmux.4,v 1.1 2005/07/14 20:32:10 max Exp $ 2.\" $FreeBSD$ 3.\" 4.Dd July 12, 2005 5.Os 6.Dt KBDMUX 4 7.Sh NAME 8.Nm kbdmux 9.Nd "keyboard multiplexer" 10.Sh SYNOPSIS 11.Cd "device kbdmux" 12.Sh DESCRIPTION 13The 14.Nm 15keyboard driver provides support for basic keyboard multiplexing. 16It is built around the idea of a 17.Dq "super keyboard" . 18The 19.Nm 20driver 21acts as a master keyboard consuming input from all slave keyboards attached to 22it. 23.Pp 24Slave keyboards can be attached to or detached from the 25.Nm 26keyboard driver with the 27.Xr kbdcontrol 1 28utility. 29.Sh SEE ALSO 30.Xr kbdcontrol 1 , 31.Xr atkbd 4 , 32.Xr pcvt 4 , 33.Xr syscons 4 , 34.Xr ukbd 4 35.Sh CAVEATS 36The 37.Nm 38keyboard driver switches all slave keyboards into 39.Dv K_RAW 40mode. 41Thus all slave keyboards attached to the 42.Nm 43keyboard share the same state. 44The 45.Nm 46keyboard is logically equivalent to one keyboard with lots of duplicated keys. 47.Sh HISTORY 48The 49.Nm 50module was implemented in 51.Fx 6.0 . 52.Sh AUTHORS 53.An Maksim Yevmenkin Aq m_evmenkin@yahoo.com 54