Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 21:00:00 +0100 From: Alexander Frolkin <alexander@frolkin.demon.co.uk> To: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> Cc: Alex Kosorukoff <alex@3form.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Console ioctl in FBSD Message-ID: <20000513210000.A546@gamma> In-Reply-To: <20000513063110.A8456@mad>; from Tim Vanderhoek on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 06:31:10AM -0400 References: <391CD124.C8EAAEBD@3form.com> <20000513063110.A8456@mad>
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On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 06:31:10AM -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 10:51:00PM -0500, Alex Kosorukoff wrote:
> >
> > I try to control keyboard LEDs with ioctl calls but they don't work.
> > Despite ioctl returns success, LEDs will not turn on/off. The same code
>
> FWIW, it worked for me on ~3.4-R.
It also worked for me on 4.0-STABLE built on 29/04.
Alexander.
>
> > works fine on Linux (with a change of <machine/console.h> to
> > <linux/kd.h>. Is it a bug or feature of FBSD? How to make it work?
> >
> > The code is following:
> >
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <stdlib.h>
> > #include <fcntl.h>
> > #include <sys/ioctl.h>
> > #include <machine/console.h>
> >
> > main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
> > char leds;
> >
> > if ( ioctl( 0, KDGETLED, &leds ) ) {
> > fprintf(stderr,"Can't get leds\n");
> > exit(1);
> > }
> > if ( ioctl( 0, KDSETLED, leds | LED_CAP ) ) {
> > fprintf(stderr,"Can't set leds\n");
> > exit(1);
> > }
> > printf("Caps lock should glow\n");
> > getchar();
> > ioctl( 0, KDSETLED, leds );
> > exit(0);
> > }
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Alex
> >
> >
> >
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