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authoryokota <yokota@FreeBSD.org>1999-02-10 14:25:03 +0000
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- Revise text, and fix typos and grammatical errors.
- Add syscons.4. If there still are errors, whether technical or grammatical, they are entirely mine, not the reviewers'. Reviewed by: sos, jkh, archie, Nick Hilliard <nick@iol.ie>
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@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $Id: $
+.\" $Id: atkbd.4,v 1.1 1999/02/07 05:40:14 yokota Exp $
.\"
-.Dd February 6, 1999
-.Dt ATKBD 4 i386
+.Dd February 9, 1999
+.Dt ATKBD 4
.Os FreeBSD
.Sh NAME
.Nm atkbd
@@ -48,35 +48,40 @@ This driver is required for the console drivers
and
.Xr pcvt 4 .
.Pp
-There can be only one
+There can be only one
.Nm
-device in the system and the keyboard controller
+device defined in the kernel configuration file. This device also
+requires the
.Nm atkbdc
-must be configured in the kernel too.
+keyboard controller to be present.
+The
+.Em irq
+number must always be 1; there is no provision of changing the number.
.Sh DRIVER CONFIGURATION
.\".Ss Kernel Configuration Options
.Ss Driver Flags
The
.Nm
-driver accepts the following driver flags. Set them in the
-kernel configuration file or in the User Configuration Menu at
-the boot time
+driver accepts the following driver flags. They can be set either in the
+kernel configuration file
+.Pq see Xr config 8 ,
+or else in the User Configuration Menu at boot time
.Pq see Xr boot 8 .
-.Bl -tag -width MOUSE
-.It bit 0 FAIL_IF_NO_KBD
+.Bl -tag -width FAIL
+.It bit 0 (FAIL_IF_NO_KBD)
By default the
.Nm
driver will install even if a keyboard is not actually connected to the
system.
-This option makes the driver not install in such situation.
-.It bit 1 NO_RESET
+This option prevents the driver from being installed in this situation.
+.It bit 1 (NO_RESET)
When this option is given, the
.Nm
driver will not reset the keyboard when initializing it.
It may be useful for laptop computers whose function keys
-have special features and these features are somewhat lost when the
+have special functions and these functions are forgotten when the
keyboard is reset.
-.It bit 2 ALT_SCANCODESET
+.It bit 2 (ALT_SCANCODESET)
Certain keyboards, such as those on some ThinkPad models, behave
like the old XT keyboard and require this option.
.El
@@ -88,7 +93,10 @@ like the old XT keyboard and require this option.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr atkbdc 4 ,
.Xr pcvt 4 ,
-.Xr psm 4 .
+.Xr psm 4 ,
+.Xr syscons 4 ,
+.Xr boot 8 ,
+.Xr config 8 .
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
@@ -97,8 +105,9 @@ driver first appeared in
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
-driver is based on keyboard I/O routines in the console driver
-code written by
-.An Søren Schmidt Aq sos@FreeBSD.org .
-This manual page was written by
+driver was written by
+.An Søren Schmidt Aq sos@FreeBSD.org
+and
.An Kazutaka Yokota Aq yokota@FreeBSD.org .
+This manual page was written by
+.An Kazutaka Yokota .
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