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From: newton@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Mike Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: DG 88k AViiON keyboard fix
Message-ID: <13920@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 21 Feb 90 06:38:36 GMT
Reply-To: newton@cit-vax.UUCP (Mike Newton)
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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Several people asked for this, so...

This will reset the keyboard on the DG AViiON's (at least under X).  To use:
	hit 'Ctrl' until you can type alphabetic characters in a shell window
	then run this program...

Note: I am typing this in by hand from another system... please pardon any
typos:

- mike

ps: what is happening: the kbd state gets lost and it start transmitting
IBM class 2 scan codes instead of type 3.
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/* reset kbd to reasonable state, if possible */

/* Copyright, Jan, 1990 Mike Newton */
/* may be freely given away */

#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>

main ()
{
  int kbd_fd;				/* kbd file descriptor */

  if (  (kbd_fd = open ("/dev/kbd", O_RDONLY, 0777)) < 0 )
    fprintf(stderr, "Couldnt open keyboard\n");
  else {
    if ( ioctl(kbd_fd, KBD_RESET, 0) )
      fprintf(stderr,"Couldnt reset keyboard\n");
#ifdef VOLUME
      if (ioctl(kbd_fd, KBD_TONE_LOW) )
	fprintf( stderr, "Couldnt lower the damn volume\n")
#endif
  }
}
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