1.\" 2.\" kbdcontrol - a utility for manipulating the syscons keyboard driver section 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" @(#)kbdcontrol.1 14.\" $FreeBSD$ 15.\" 16.Dd January 29, 2008 17.Dt KBDCONTROL 1 18.Os 19.Sh NAME 20.Nm kbdcontrol 21.Nd keyboard control and configuration utility 22.Sh SYNOPSIS 23.Nm 24.Op Fl dFKix 25.Op Fl A Ar name 26.Op Fl a Ar name 27.Oo 28.Fl b 29.Ar duration . Ns Ar pitch | Ar belltype 30.Oc 31.Oo 32.Fl r 33.Ar delay . Ns Ar repeat | Ar speed 34.Oc 35.Op Fl l Ar keymap_file 36.Op Fl f Ar # Ar string 37.Op Fl k Ar keyboard_device 38.Op Fl L Ar keymap_file 39.Sh DESCRIPTION 40The 41.Nm 42command is used to set various keyboard related options for the 43.Xr syscons 4 44console driver and the keyboard drivers, 45such as key map, keyboard repeat and delay rates, bell 46characteristics etc. 47.Pp 48Keyboard options may be automatically configured at system boot time by 49setting variables in 50.Pa /etc/rc.conf . 51See 52.Sx Boot Time Configuration 53below. 54.Pp 55The following command line options are supported: 56.Bl -tag -width indent 57.It Fl A Ar name 58Detach the keyboard, specified by the keyboard device name, from the keyboard 59multiplexer. 60When using this option, the standard input of the 61.Nm 62process should be redirected from the keyboard multiplexer keyboard device 63(if the keyboard multiplexer is not the active keyboard) or 64.Pa /dev/console 65(if the keyboard multiplexer is the active keyboard and 66you are not working on the system console). 67.It Fl a Ar name 68Attach the keyboard, specified by the keyboard device name, to the keyboard 69multiplexer. 70When using this option, the standard input of the 71.Nm 72process should be redirected from the keyboard multiplexer keyboard device 73(if the keyboard multiplexer is not the active keyboard) or 74.Pa /dev/console 75(if the keyboard multiplexer is the active keyboard and 76you are not working on the system console). 77.It Fl b Xo 78.Ar duration . Ns Ar pitch | Ar belltype 79.Xc 80Set the bell duration in milliseconds and pitch in hertz. 81If a 82.Ar belltype 83argument is specified, it may be one of 84.Cm normal 85which sets sound parameters back to normal values, 86.Cm off 87which disables the bell entirely, or 88.Cm visual 89which sets the bell to visual mode, i.e., flashes the screen instead. 90If 91.Ar belltype 92is preceded by the word 93.Cm quiet. , 94the bell will not be rung when the ringing process is in the background vty. 95The 96.Cm visual 97bell, when chosen, applies to all vtys; other bell types 98can be set individually for each vty. 99.It Fl r Xo 100.Ar delay . Ns Ar repeat | Ar speed 101.Xc 102Set keyboard 103.Ar delay 104(250, 500, 750, 1000) 105and 106.Ar repeat 107(34, 38, 42, 46, 50, 55, 59, 63, 68, 76, 84, 92, 100, 110, 118, 126, 108136, 152, 168, 184, 200, 220, 236, 252, 272, 304, 336, 368, 400, 440, 109472, 504) 110rates, or if a 111.Ar speed 112argument is specified, it may be one of 113.Cm slow 114(1000.504), 115.Cm fast 116(250.34) 117or 118.Cm normal 119(500.126). 120.It Fl l Ar keymap_file 121Install keyboard map file from 122.Ar keymap_file . 123You may load the keyboard map file from a menu-driven command, 124.Xr kbdmap 1 . 125The format of keyboard map files is documented in the 126.Xr kbdmap 5 127manual page. 128.It Fl d 129Dump the current keyboard map onto stdout. 130The output may be redirected to a file and can be loaded 131back to the kernel later by the 132.Fl l 133option above. 134.It Fl f Ar # Ar string 135Set function key number 136.Ar # 137to send 138.Ar string . 139Refer to the man page for the keyboard driver 140(e.g.\& 141.Xr atkbd 4 ) 142for available function keys and their numbers. 143.It Fl F 144Set function keys back to the standard definitions. 145.It Fl x 146Use hexadecimal numbers in keyboard map dump. 147.It Fl i 148Print brief information about the keyboard. 149.It Fl K 150Disconnect the keyboard from the console. 151You need to use the 152.Fl k 153option below to associate a keyboard with the console again. 154.It Fl k Ar keyboard_device 155Use the specified device as the console keyboard. 156When using this option, the standard input of the 157.Nm 158process should be redirected from 159.Pa /dev/console 160if you are not working on the system console 161(see the 162.Sx EXAMPLES 163section). 164.It Fl L Ar keymap_file 165Load keyboard map file from 166.Ar keymap_file 167and write the 168.Ft "struct keymap" 169compiled from it to stdout. 170This option is primarily intended for programmers and is probably 171of little use under normal circumstances. 172.El 173.Sh ENVIRONMENT 174The environment variable 175.Ev KEYMAP_PATH 176can hold an alternative path to the keyboard map files. 177.Sh KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION 178.Ss Boot Time Configuration 179You may set variables in 180.Pa /etc/rc.conf 181or 182.Pa /etc/rc.conf.local 183in order to configure the keyboard at boot time. 184The following is the list of relevant variables. 185.Pp 186.Bl -tag -width foo_bar_var -compact 187.It Ar keymap 188Specifies a keyboard map file for the 189.Fl l 190option. 191.It Ar keyrate 192Sets the keyboard repeat rate for the 193.Fl r 194option. 195.It Ar keychange 196Lists function key strings for the 197.Fl f 198option. 199.El 200.Pp 201See 202.Xr rc.conf 5 203for details. 204.Ss Driver Configuration 205The keyboard device driver may let you change default configuration 206options, such as the default keyboard map, so that you do not need to set up 207the options at boot time. 208See keyboard driver manuals 209(e.g.\& 210.Xr atkbd 4 , 211.Xr ukbd 4 ) 212for details. 213.Sh FILES 214.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/foo_bar -compact 215.It Pa /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/* 216keyboard map files 217.El 218.Sh EXAMPLES 219The following command will load the keyboard map file 220.Pa /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/ru.koi8-r.kbd . 221.Pp 222.Dl kbdcontrol -l /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/ru.koi8-r.kbd 223.Pp 224So long as the keyboard map file resides in 225.Pa /usr/share/syscons/keymaps , 226you may abbreviate the file name as 227.Pa ru.koi8-r . 228.Pp 229.Dl kbdcontrol -l ru.koi8-r 230.Pp 231The following command will make the function key 10 emit "telnet myhost". 232.Pp 233.Dl kbdcontrol -f 10 \&"telnet myhost\&" 234.Pp 235In order to get the visual effect for bell, but prevent the screen 236from flashing if the bell is to ring in the background screen, 237run the following command. 238.Pp 239.Dl kbdcontrol -b quiet.visual 240.Pp 241To change the default console keyboard to another keyboard, 242for example the first USB keyboard (see 243.Xr ukbd 4 ) , 244use the following command. 245.Pp 246.Dl kbdcontrol -k /dev/ukbd0 < /dev/console 247.Pp 248To switch back to the default keyboard, use this command. 249.Pp 250.Dl kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd0 251.Pp 252To allow using both the second USB keyboard and the first AT keyboard 253at the same time on console via the 254.Xr kbdmux 4 255driver, use the following sequence of commands. 256.Bd -literal -offset indent 257kbdcontrol -K < /dev/console 258kbdcontrol -a atkbd0 < /dev/kbdmux0 259kbdcontrol -a ukbd1 < /dev/kbdmux0 260kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbdmux0 < /dev/console 261.Ed 262.Sh SEE ALSO 263.Xr kbdmap 1 , 264.Xr vidcontrol 1 , 265.Xr atkbd 4 , 266.Xr kbdmux 4 , 267.Xr keyboard 4 , 268.Xr screen 4 , 269.Xr syscons 4 , 270.Xr ukbd 4 , 271.Xr kbdmap 5 , 272.Xr rc.conf 5 273.Sh AUTHORS 274.An S\(/oren Schmidt Aq sos@FreeBSD.org 275.Sh BUGS 276Report when found. 277