Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 17:22:12 -0500 (CDT) From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, r3cgm@cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard ioctl troubles Message-ID: <199705192222.RAA00378@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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> When I try to run /usr/sbin/kbdcontrol (in FreeBSD v2.2.1) I get the
> error message:
>
> [hornet.cdrom.com : root] /usr/sbin - kbdcontrol -r fast
> setting keyboard rate: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
> Do you know why this wouldn't be working?
You're not doing this from X windows are you? If so, you want to
modify your XF86Config file to add AutoRepeat in the Keyboard
section.
# **********************************************************************
# Keyboard section
# **********************************************************************
Section "Keyboard"
Protocol "Standard"
# when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the
# following line
# Protocol "Xqueue"
AutoRepeat 250 1000
# Let the server do the NumLock processing. This should only be required
# when using pre-R6 clients
# ServerNumLock
[ etc ]
Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org
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