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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!unidui!du9ds3!veit 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> Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de 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 -- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | Sorry, the above really good fortune has | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | been CENSORED because of obscenity"