HILKBD(4)

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version 11.0 · 2 versions
, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 hilkbd(4) — the HIL keyboard device, bestie 💖

okay so real talk, this one's a Kernel Interfaces Manual page, and honestly? it's giving underrated icon energy. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

hilkbd — the HIL keyboard device, no cap 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hilkbd* at hil?
wskbd* at hilkbd?

option HILKBD_LAYOUT=XXX

like, that's the whole vibe check right there ⭐

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so this driver? it supports HIL keyboards inside the wscons(4) framework 🫶. but plot twist — it does not provide direct device driver entry points. nope. instead it makes its functions available through the internal wskbd(4) interface. it's giving backstage main character energy, lowkey 💜

now the fun part: the hilkbd driver supports a number of different key mappings 🔥. by default, the layout that corresponds to the keyboard model — as probed by the hilkbd driver itself — is what gets used, periodt. ✨

but bestie, you can choose a different layout! two ways:

  • with the kernel option HILKBD_LAYOUT at compile time 🧚
  • or with the wsconsctl(8) utility at runtime, using the variable keyboard.encoding 🎀

🌈 the supported key mappings (at this time)

  • KB_DE — (de) German, with "dead accents" 🍓
  • KB_FR — (fr) French, with "dead accents" 🍓
  • KB_SV — (sv) Swedish ⭐
  • KB_UK — (uk) British 🦋
  • KB_US — (us) English/US keyboard mapping 💫

and here's a lil bonus detail: the KB_DE mapping can be used in the KB_NODEAD (.nodead) variant — which switches off the "dead accents". iconic behavior honestly 💅

🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

want a Swedish keyboard mapping, like, right now? use:

wsconsctl keyboard.encoding=sv

and if you want it set at kernel build time — regardless of what keyboard is plugged — just add the following to the kernel configuration file:

option HILKBD_LAYOUT="KB_SV"

slay. that's it. that's the whole thing 💖

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

hil(4), intro(4), wskbd(4), wsconsctl(8)

go read them, iykyk 📚✨

💀 BUGS 💀

okay, being honest here 🙈 —

  • the list of built-in mappings is incomplete, and it has grown as people submitted information about their particular layout. so yeah, it's a community project vibe fr fr 🌱
  • the Swedish and British layouts have been reconstructed from tables in the old HIL code that's present in the hp300 port — and they have not been tested. 😭 so like, proceed with love and maybe a lil caution 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this gem comes to you from Debian, dated February 9, 2011 — an absolute vintage moment, we stan a classic 💜✨

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