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.TH kbdcontrol 1 "May 22, 1994" "" "FreeBSD"

.SH NAME
kbdcontrol - a utility for manipulating the syscons keyboard driver section.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.na
.B kbdcontrol
.RB [options]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B kbdcontrol
command is used to set various keyboard related options for the syscons 
console driver, such as keymap, keyboard repeat & delay rates, bell 
characteristics etc.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
The following command line options are supported.
.TP
.BI "\-b\ " [ duration.pitch | normal | visual ]
Set the bell duration and pitch values. Argument may also be one of 
.BI "normal"
which set sound parameters back to normal values, or 
.BI "visual"
which set the bell to visual mode, ie flashes the screen instead.
.TP
.BI "\-r\ " [ delay.repeat | slow | fast | normal ]
Set keyboard
.I delay (250, 500, 750, 1000)
and
.I repeat (34, 38, 42, 46, 50, 55, 59, 63, 68, 76, 84, 92, 100, 110, 118, 126, 
136, 152, 168, 184, 200, 220, 236, 252, 272, 304, 336, 368, 400, 440,
472, 504)
rates,  or use presets for
.I slow (1000.504),
.I fast (250.34)
or
.I normal (500.126)
.TP
.BI "\-l\ " mapfile
Install keyboard map file from
.I mapfile
.TP
.BI "\-d\ " 
Dump the current keyboard map onto stdout
.TP
.BI "\-f\ " #\ string
Set function key number
.I #
to send
.I string
.
.TP
.BI "\-F\ "
Set function keys back to the standard definitions.
.TP
.B "\-x "
Use hexadecimal numbers in keyboard map dump.
.TP
.BI "\-h " #
Set history buffer size (in lines).
.PP
.SH FILES
/usr/share/syscons/keymaps
.SH "BUGS"
Report when found.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR vidcontrol (1) ,
.BR keyboard (4) ,
.BR screen (4) .
.SH AUTHORS
Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org)