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To: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard ioctl troubles 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 16:23:12 -0700
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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.

   ...or redirect stdin ("< /dev/ttyv0"). kbdcontrol tries to do its thing on
the current tty, assuming that it is the console device.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project