kbdcontrol - a utility for manipulating the syscons keyboard driver section

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@(#)kbdcontrol.1

kbdcontrol - a utility for manipulating the syscons keyboard driver section. kbdcontrol [options] The 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.

The following command line options are supported.

"-b " [ duration.pitch | normal | visual ] Set the bell duration and pitch values. Argument may also be one of "normal" which set sound parameters back to normal values, or "visual" which set the bell to visual mode, ie flashes the screen instead.

"-r " [ delay.repeat | slow | fast | normal ] Set keyboard delay (250, 500, 750, 1000) and 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 slow (1000.504), fast (250.34) or normal (500.126)

"-l " mapfile Install keyboard map file from mapfile

"-d " Dump the current keyboard map onto stdout

"-f " # string Set function key number # to send string .

"-F " Set function keys back to the standard definitions.

"-x " Use hexadecimal numbers in keyboard map dump.

"-h " # Set history buffer size (in lines).

/usr/share/syscons/keymaps Report when found. vidcontrol (1) , keyboard (4) , screen (4) . S�ren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org)