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- From: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: XFree86 problems (keyboard hangs overnight)
- Date: 13 Nov 92 15:58:57 GMT
- Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
- Lines: 41
- Message-ID: <veit.721670337@du9ds3>
- References: <BxM1qt.2xC@unx.sas.com> <STARK.92Nov12154408@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu>
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- In <STARK.92Nov12154408@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu> stark@cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) writes:
-
- >> Also, I've noticed some problems with the capslock key; sometimes
- >>the capslock is engaged, and I can't disengage it without restarting
- >>the server. In this regard, none of the keyboard lights (capslock, numlock,
- >>etc...) seem to function.
- >>
- >> Finally, did anyone ever find out where the <bell> went?
- >>
- >> - Dave Rivers -
- >> (rivers@ponds.uucp (home))
- >> (sastdr@unx.sas.com (work))
-
- >I was one of the people who posted asking about the bell. No one who
- >"knows" anything ever responded, but a few people mailed me who also
- >wanted to know anything I found out.
-
- >Anyway, in looking at some of the X server code while getting my bus mouse
- >to work, it appeared to me that, although the server makes the appropriate
- >ioctl's to ring the console bell, the 386bsd console driver doesn't actually
- >support these ioctl's at present, so the bell doesn't ring. I could be
- >totally wrong about this, but nevertheless my bell doesn't ring and I don't
- >see any mechanism in 386bsd that would enable the server to cause it to ring.
- >Similar mechanism appears to be missing in the case of the keyboard lights.
-
- >I though about hacking in an ioctl for the bell and maybe for the lights,
- >but I didn't get around to it yet.
-
- > - Gene Stark
-
- I am becoming quite tired now to to say that all of this is covered by "codrv".
- Get the keycap-0.1.1.tar.Z stuff from ftp.uni-duisburg.de (134.91.100.14).
- Read README*, FAQ.ddmmyy, and BUGLIST.ddmmyy there.
-
- Holger
-
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