hilkbd4

Usage

Overview

This driver supports HIL keyboards within the wscons(4) framework. It doesn't provide direct device driver entry points, but makes its functions available through the internal wskbd(4) interface.

The hilkbd driver supports a number of different key mappings. By default, the layout corresponding to the keyboard model as probed by the hilkbd driver will be used. A different layout can be chosen either with the kernel option “HILKBD_LAYOUT” at compile time, or with the wsconsctl(8) utility (variable: “keyboard.encoding”) at runtime.

The supported key mappings are at this time:

KB_DE

(de) German with “dead accents”.

KB_FR

(fr) French with “dead accents”.

KB_SV

(sv) Swedish.

KB_UK

(uk) British.

KB_US

(us) English/US keyboard mapping.

The KB_DE mapping can be used in the KB_NODEAD (.nodead) variant. This switches off the “dead accents”.

Examples

To set a Swedish keyboard mapping, use wsconsctl keyboard.encoding=sv. To set it at kernel build time, regardless of what keyboard is plugged, add the following to the kernel configuration file:

option HILKBD_LAYOUT="KB_SV"