PCKBD(4) | NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual | PCKBD(4) |
The pckbd driver supports a number of different key mappings which can be chosen from with the kernel option PCKBD_LAYOUT at compile time or with the utility wsconsctl(8) (variable: “encoding”) at runtime. Other mappings can be used if the whole keymap is replaced by means of wsconsctl(8). The builtin mappings are at this time:
option | wsconsctl | language |
KB_US | us | English/US keyboard mapping (default) |
KB_UK | uk | English/UK keyboard mapping |
KB_BE | be | Belgian |
KB_CZ | cz | Czech (QWERTY) |
KB_DK | dk | Danish with “dead accents” |
KB_NL | nl | Dutch |
KB_FI | fi | Finnish |
KB_FR | fr | French |
KB_DE | de | German with “dead accents” |
KB_GR | gr | Greek |
KB_HU | hu | Hungarian |
KB_IT | it | Italian |
KB_JP | jp | Japanese |
KB_NO | no | Norwegian with “dead accents” |
KB_PL | pl | Polish |
KB_PT | pt | Portuguese |
KB_RU | ru | Russian |
KB_ES | es | Spanish |
KB_SV | sv | Swedish with “dead accents” |
KB_SF | sf | Swiss French |
KB_SG | sg | Swiss German |
KB_UA | ua | Ukrainian |
KB_US|KB_DECLK | us.declk | English/US mapping for DEC |
LK400-style keyboards with PC keyboard | ||
interface (e.g., LK461) | ||
KB_US|KB_DVORAK | us.dvorak | English/US keyboard with |
“Dvorak” layout | ||
KB_US|KB_COLEMAK | us.colemak | English/US keyboard with |
“Colemak” layout |
The KB_DE, KB_DK, KB_NO and KB_SV mappings can be used in the KB_NODEAD (“.nodead”) variant. This switches off the “dead accents”.
The KB_US, KB_JP and KB_US|KB_DVORAK mappings can be modified to swap the left CTRL 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.)
Because PC keyboard hardware doesn't contain a beeper, requests for “keyboard beeps” cannot be handled directly. On alpha and i386 a helper device attached to the pcppi(4) driver allows the use of the standard ISA speaker for this purpose. On acorn32, vidcaudio(4) performs this function.
to the kernel configuration file.options PCKBD_LAYOUT="(KB_DE | KB_NODEAD | KB_METAESC)"
July 22, 2011 | NetBSD 5.99 |