Technical data

SunOS 5.5 Devices keyboard(7D)

NAME keyboard − system console keyboard

AVAILABILITY x86

DESCRIPTION keyboard is a component of the kd driver, which is comprised of the display and key-

board drivers.

The Solaris for x86 keyboard may be either an 84- or a 101-key standard PC keyboard.

When the system is booting, keyboard services are provided by the keyboard section of

the kd driver.

Developers are not encouraged to write programs that communicate directly with the

keyboard; they should make use of the environment provided by the windows server.

FILES /dev/console