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NAME

akbd – ADB Keyboard Driver

CONTENTS

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:

EVENTS

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

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>.
AKBD (4) December 3, 2009
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