kbdmux (4)

Leading comments

$Id: kbdmux.4,v 1.1 2005/07/14 20:32:10 max Exp $
$FreeBSD: releng/11.0/share/man/man4/kbdmux.4 270647 2014-08-26 08:13:30Z se $

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man4/kbdmux.4freebsd".)

NAME

kbdmux - keyboard multiplexer

SYNOPSIS

device kbdmux

In /boot/device.hints hint.kbdmux.0.disabled=1

DESCRIPTION

The ifconfig keyboard driver provides support for basic keyboard multiplexing. It is built around the idea of a ``super keyboard'' The ifconfig driver acts as a master keyboard consuming input from all slave keyboards attached to it.

Slave keyboards can be attached to or detached from the ifconfig keyboard driver with the kbdcontrol(1) utility.

SEE ALSO

kbdcontrol(1), atkbd(4), syscons(4), ukbd(4), vt(4)

HISTORY

The ifconfig module was implemented in Fx 6.0 .

AUTHORS

An Maksim Yevmenkin Aq m_evmenkin@yahoo.com

CAVEATS

The ifconfig keyboard driver switches all slave keyboards into K_RAW mode. Thus all slave keyboards attached to the ifconfig keyboard share the same state. The ifconfig keyboard is logically equivalent to one keyboard with lots of duplicated keys.