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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sol.net!spool.mu.edu!newsspool.sol.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!europa.clark.net!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Keyboard LEDs on/off by software? Date: 21 Jun 1997 17:21:59 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5oh2jn$b7n@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <87hgetmjtt.fsf@localhost> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43297 gorski@poboxes.com wrote: > Does anybody know how to switch the keyboard LEDs on/off > by software?? > Maybe there are some ioctl() functions? (or something else) #include <machine/console.h> int leds = ioctl(fd, KDGETLED); ioctl(fd, KDSETLED, leds); (That's a SysV-style ioctl, thus pass the integer value directly, not the address of an `int' variable as in typical BSD-style ioctls.) NB: works with both graphical console drivers. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)