.TH KBDINFO 1 "June 2011"
.SH NAME
kbdinfo \- obtain information about the status of a console
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBkbdinfo\fR [\-C \fIDEVICE\fR] getmode [text|graphics]
.LP
\fBkbdinfo\fR [\-C \fIDEVICE\fR] gkbmode [raw|xlate|mediumraw|unicode]
.LP
\fBkbdinfo\fR [\-C \fIDEVICE\fR] gkbmeta [metabit|escprefix]
.LP
\fBkbdinfo\fR [\-C \fIDEVICE\fR] gkbled [scrolllock|numlock|capslock]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B kbdinfo
is an interface to KDGETMODE, GKBMODE, GKBMETA and GKBLED ioctls.  Its
primary use case is to query the status of the given
.I CONSOLE
(or the currently active one, if no \-C option is present) from a shell
script.
.LP
If the final value argument is not specified,
.B kbdinfo
will print the result of the desired ioctl to the standard output.
Otherwise, the given value is compared to the actual result, and the
utility will exit with a status code of 0 for a match, 1 otherwise.  No
text is printed for this style of invocation.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR kbd_mode (1)
.SH AUTHOR
kbdinfo is Copyright \(co 2011 Alexey Gladkov
<gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>.
.LP
This manual page was written by Michael Schutte <michi@debian.org> for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).