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Manual Pages — AKBD

NAME

akbd – ADB Keyboard Driver

CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
HARDWARE
EVENTS
SYSCTL VARIABLES
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
AUTHORS

SYNOPSIS

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device adb

DESCRIPTION

The akbd driver provides support for all keyboards attached to the Apple Desktop Bus (ADB).

HARDWARE

Devices supported by the akbd driver include:

Apple Extended Keyboard
Apple Keyboard II
Apple iBook Keyboard
Apple PowerBook Keyboard

EVENTS

The akbd driver sends events to devd(8) for the following events under the PMU system:

Power button - Button subsystem, pressed type.

SYSCTL VARIABLES

The akbd driver supports the following sysctl variable for configuring the Fn keys:

dev.akbd.%d.fn_keys_function_as_primary
	Set the Fn keys to be their F-key type as default. A value of 0 causes the F-keys keys to work as special keys by default ( abtn(4)) and a value of 1 sets them to behave as F-keys by default.

SEE ALSO

abtn(4), adb(4), cuda(4), pmu(4)

HISTORY

The akbd device driver appeared in FreeBSD 8.0 .

AUTHORS

The akbd driver was written by Nathan Whitehorn <Mt nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org>.

December 3, 2009

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