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Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard ioctl troubles
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On Mon, 19 May 1997, Christopher G Mann wrote:

> When I try to run /usr/sbin/kbdcontrol (in FreeBSD v2.2.1) I get the
> error message:
> 
>   $ kbdcontrol -r fast
>   $ setting keyboard rate: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 
> Do you know why this wouldn't be working?

works for me (2.2.1) on my laptop.
what kind of keyboard hardware do you have?
does it do that if you set "fast" in sysconfig?
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