From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jul 12 11:30: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85D6137BF1B for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:30:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id LAA84011; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200007121830.LAA84011@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Ben Smithurst Subject: Re: docs/18520: kbdcontrol manpage incomplete Reply-To: Ben Smithurst Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/18520; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ben Smithurst To: n_hibma@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/18520: kbdcontrol manpage incomplete Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:24:15 +0100 n_hibma@freebsd.org wrote: > The manpage for kbdcontrol is incomplete. It does not mention that > some commands only apply to /dev/console or the virtual terminals. It would > be useful to see an example along the lines of > > kbdcontrol -k /dev/ukbd0 < /dev/console > > to show how to change the keyboard when in an xterm (or when using an automatic > changer line in usbd.conf). What sort of text do you think is needed? I don't really know enough about USB and stuff to see exactly what you mean. I assume that command will mean that the USB keyboard acts as the console keyboard from that point forward? How do you change it back? Anyway, how about: To change the default console keyboard to the first USB keyboard (see ukbd(4)) when not working on the console or a virtual terminal, use this command: kbdcontrol -k /dev/ukbd0 < /dev/console The ukbd(4) manpage seems to have a bit more about this, so I explicitly added a reference to it there rather than expecting people to find it in the SEE ALSO bit. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message