Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:02:07 +0000 (UTC) From: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r40357 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq Message-ID: <201212121302.qBCD27I7052690@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: eadler Date: Wed Dec 12 13:02:06 2012 New Revision: 40357 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40357 Log: This entire section has not been needed since kbdmux was added to GENERIC. Noted by: tj Approved by: bcr (mentor) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Wed Dec 12 00:07:43 2012 (r40356) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Wed Dec 12 13:02:06 2012 (r40357) @@ -2000,62 +2000,6 @@ <qandaset> <qandaentry> - <question id="usbkbd"> - <para>Does &os; support my USB keyboard?</para> - </question> - - <answer> - <para>&os; supports USB keyboards out-of-the-box. Once you - have USB keyboard support enabled on your system, the AT - keyboard becomes <devicename>/dev/kbd0</devicename> and - the USB keyboard becomes - <devicename>/dev/kbd1</devicename>, if both are connected - to the system. If there is the USB keyboard only, it will - be <devicename>/dev/ukbd0</devicename>.</para> - - <para>If you want to use the USB keyboard in the console, - you have to explicitly tell the console driver to use the - existing USB keyboard. This can be done by running the - following command as a part of system - initialization.</para> - - <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1 < /dev/console > /dev/null</userinput></screen> - - <para>Note that if the USB keyboard is the only keyboard, it - is accessed as <devicename>/dev/ukbd0</devicename>, thus, - the command should look like:</para> - - <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>kbdcontrol -k /dev/ukbd0 < /dev/console > /dev/null</userinput></screen> - - <note> - <para>To make this change permanent across reboots, add - <literal>keyboard="/dev/ukbd0"</literal> to - <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>.</para> - </note> - - <para>Once this is done, the USB keyboard should work in the - X environment as well without any special settings.</para> - - <para>If you want to switch back to the default keyboard, - use this command:</para> - - <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd0 > /dev/null</userinput></screen> - - <para>To allow using both the second USB keyboard and the - first AT keyboard at the same time on a console via - &man.kbdmux.4; driver type the following commands:</para> - - <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>kbdcontrol -K < /dev/console > /dev/null</userinput> -&prompt.root; <userinput>kbdcontrol -a atkbd0 < /dev/kbdmux0 > /dev/null</userinput> -&prompt.root; <userinput>kbdcontrol -a ukbd1 < /dev/kbdmux0 > /dev/null</userinput> -&prompt.root; <userinput>kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbdmux0 < /dev/console > /dev/null</userinput></screen> - - <para>See the &man.ukbd.4;, &man.kbdcontrol.1; and - &man.kbdmux.4; manual pages for more information.</para> - </answer> - </qandaentry> - - <qandaentry> <question id="moused"> <para>Is it possible to use a mouse in any way outside the X Window system?</para>
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