bionic (4) kbdmux.4freebsd.gz

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NAME

     kbdmux — keyboard multiplexer

SYNOPSIS

     device kbdmux

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

DESCRIPTION

     The kbdmux keyboard driver provides support for basic keyboard multiplexing.  It is built around the idea
     of a “super keyboard”.  The kbdmux 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 kbdmux keyboard driver with the kbdcontrol(1)
     utility.

SEE ALSO

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

HISTORY

     The kbdmux module was implemented in FreeBSD 6.0.

AUTHORS

     Maksim Yevmenkin <m_evmenkin@yahoo.com>

CAVEATS

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