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Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 09:07:46 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Hi

> > So at least we know now:
> > 
> > 1. Kernel is bogous.
> > 2. util-linux is bogous.
> > 
> > IOCTL is ineed the way to go to implement such functionality...
> 
> For kbdrate???  sysctl I might see - after all, we are talking about
> setting two numbers.  ioctl() to pass a couple of integers to the kernel?
> No, thanks.

There may be more than one keyboard in the system, so sysctl() is not 
suitable.
								Pavel
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