NAME

       kbdmux — keyboard multiplexer

SYNOPSIS

       device kbdmux

       In /boot/device.hints:
       hint.kbdmux.0.disabled="1"

DESCRIPTION

       The kbdmux keyboard driver provides support for basic keyboard multiplexing.  It is built around the idea
       of  a  “super  keyboard”.   The  kbdmux  driver  acts as a master keyboard consuming input from all slave
       keyboards attached to it.

       Slave keyboards can be attached to or detached from the kbdmux keyboard  driver  with  the  kbdcontrol(1)
       utility.

SEE ALSO

       kbdcontrol(1), atkbd(4), syscons(4), ukbd(4), vt(4)

HISTORY

       The kbdmux module was implemented in FreeBSD 6.0.

AUTHORS

       Maksim Yevmenkin <m_evmenkin@yahoo.com>

CAVEATS

       The  kbdmux  keyboard  driver  switches  all  slave  keyboards into K_RAW mode.  Thus all slave keyboards
       attached to the kbdmux keyboard share the same state.  The kbdmux keyboard is logically equivalent to one
       keyboard with lots of duplicated keys.

Debian                                            July 12, 2005                                        KBDMUX(4)