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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!wupost!udel!sbcs.sunysb.edu!sbcs!stark From: stark@cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Subject: Re: XFree86 problems (keyboard hangs overnight) In-Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de's message of 13 Nov 92 15: 58:57 GMT Message-ID: <STARK.92Nov14094333@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Nntp-Posting-Host: sbstark Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook Computer Science Dept. References: <BxM1qt.2xC@unx.sas.com> <STARK.92Nov12154408@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu> <veit.721670337@du9ds3> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 14:43:33 GMT Lines: 32 >>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 I wasn't aware of this before the recent flurry of postings -- thank you. I did in fact ftp your package (from ref.tfs.com) a few days ago and read the stuff you suggest. I thank you for making this available, but in view of the fact that it is still incomplete (according to the documentation) and appears at first glance to be a significant deviation from the stock system and patches, and a corresponding hassle to install (and to back out changes if something goes wrong), I decided that I probably don't want to install your driver at this juncture. Before I started running X386, I was using a version of keycap that came with a console driver posted by Hellmuth Michaelis. The key mapping was very nice, but I wasn't happy with the console driver, which tended to crash my system. When X386 came out, and Terry's patchkit, I went back to the stock console driver with patches applied. I am currently very reluctant to install a large console driver with lots of bells and whistles, when I use XFree86 almost all the time. I would rather have some small, reliable patches to make the bell and keyboard lights work than a whole big thing with a lot of baggage I don't have any use for. - Gene Stark