NAME

kb − Sun keyboard

SYNOPSIS

pseudo-device kbnumber

DESCRIPTION

Kb provides access to the Sun workstation keyboard translation.  Definitions for altering keyboard translation are in <sundev/kbio.h> and <sundev/kbd.h>.  The number argument specifies the maximum number of keyboards supported by the system. 

The call KIOCTRANS controls the presence of keyboard translation:

int x;
err = ioctl(fd, KIOCTRANS, &x);

When x is 0, keyboard translation is turned off and up/down key codes are reported.  Specifying x as 1 restores normal keyboard translations. 

The call KIOCSETKEY changes a keyboard translation table entry:

structkiockey {
intkio_tablemask;/∗ Translation table (one of: 0, CAPSMASK,
   SHIFTMASK, CTRLMASK, UPMASK) ∗/
u_charkio_station;/∗ Physical keyboard key station (0-127) ∗/
u_charkio_entry;/∗ Translation table station’s entry ∗/
charkio_string[10];/∗ Value for STRING entries (null terminated) ∗/
};
      struct kiockey key;
     err = ioctl(fd, KIOCSETKEY, &key);

Set kio_tablemask table’s kio_station to kio_entry.  Copy kio_string to string table if kio_entry is between STRING and STRING+15.  This call may return EINVAL if there are invalid arguments. 

The call KIOCGETKEY determines the current value of a keyboard translation table entry:

struct kiockey key;
err = ioctl(fd, KIOCGETKEY, &key);

Get kio_tablemask table’s kio_station to kio_entry.  Get kio_string from string table if kio_entry is between STRING and STRING+15.  This call may return EINVAL if there are invalid arguments. 

FILES

/dev/kbd

SEE ALSO

kbd(5)

Sun Release 2.0  —  Last change: 1 November 1984