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From: robsch@robkaos.GUN.de (Robert Schien)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Questions
References: <chiCG4qp4.H3E@netcom.com>
Organization: Private System, Essen, Germany
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1993 21:22:54 GMT
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Curt Hagenlocher (chi@netcom.com) wrote:
: I am a satisfied user of FreeBSD on my home machine (at work, we
: deal only in MS-DOS/MS-Windows<shudder>). I'm currently using the
: core EPSILON distribution (recompiled to enable NE2000 support) with
: XFree86 1.3. I've got three questions.
: 1) On three occaisions, my keyboard has died while in X. One time,
: I was able to telnet in and "shutdown", at which point the system
: dropped into single-user mode and the keyboard was working again.
: The other two times, I waited 30 seconds for activity to die down,
: then touched the PCs "tickle spot".
: On yet a fourth occaision, (again under X), the keyboard driver seemed
: to have gotten confused about the state of NUM LOCK (that is, the light
: didn't match what the keys were doing).
: Is this likely to be a problem with the FreeBSD keyboard driver, or
: in XFree86? Is there any evidence (other than just some hopes or a
: gut feeling) that this problem would disappear by upgrading to
: [FreeBSD-1.0-Release|XFree86-2.0]?
The point is, I have quite similiar problems with Xfree86. The version
I'm using is 1.1 with server and xterm 1.3 just because
I can't afford massive downloading. The problem is: sometimes the keyboard
just dies (at random times).
: 2. This is a subject I haven't really seen addressed in any previous
: postings. Is there support for sending commands to my CDROM to play
: music CDs? If it matters, I've got an Adaptec 1542 controller and
: a Toshiba CDROM drive. I'd try to figure this out myself, but
: my CD programming experience is limited to making use of Microsoft's
: MSCDEX, which I haven't yet become desperate enough to disassemble.
Here is my state-of-the-art cdplayer: :-)
#include <sys/file.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/errno.h>
#include <sys/cdio.h>
main()
{
int filedes,result,track;
struct ioc_play_track play_structure;
scanf("%d",&track);
result=open("/dev/cd0d", O_RDONLY);
if (result==-1) { perror("open"); return(1); };
filedes=result;
play_structure.start_track=track;
play_structure.end_track=track;
play_structure.start_index=1;
play_structure.end_index=1;
/* result=ioctl(filedes,CDIOCSTART,"");
if (result==-1) { perror("ioctl"); return(1); }; */
result=ioctl(filedes,CDIOCPLAYTRACKS,&play_structure);
if (result==-1) { perror("play ioctl"); return(1); };
}
: 3. To what address to I send a request to join the mailing lists
: FreeBSD-[bugs|questions|hackers]?
This would be interesting for me, too.
: --
: Thank you,
: Curt Hagenlocher
: chi@netcom.com