> Doug Scott wrote:
The appropriate ioctl
> KBD_CMD_BELL and KBD_CMD_NOBELL are already in
> sys/kbd.h.
>
> Those ioctls don't make it so the bell doesn't sound
> in the future - they
> are used for sounding the bell. In the X server, to
> make a 100ms beep,
> we do:
> kbdCmd = KBD_CMD_BELL;
> ioctl(fd, KIOCCMD, &kbdCmd)
> sleep for 100ms
> kbdCmd = KBD_CMD_NOBELL;
> ioctl(fd, KIOCCMD, &kbdCmd)
>
> You'ld need to add new ones to make a keyboard bell
> disabling command.
Ah, this would confirm my testing issues so far. My confusion comes from the
wording (below) in the file
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/uts/common/io/conskbd.c.
Looks ioctls commands like KBD_CMD_BELL_ENABLE and KBD_CMD_BELL_DISABLE are
required.
Thanks
Doug
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* 3.1) for KBD_CMD_NOBELL
1262 * there's no beep in USB and PS2 keyboard,
1263 * this ioctl actually disables the beep on
1264 * system mainboard. Note that all the
cloned
1265 * messages sent down to lower queues do
the
1266 * same job for system mainboard.
Therefore,
1267 * even if we fail to send this ioctl to
most
1268 * of lower queues, the beep still would be
1269 * disabled. So, no trouble exists here.
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