From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 9:19:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from routermonkey.com (fry.routermonkey.com [204.209.9.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D79D37B65D for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:19:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jason@localhost) by routermonkey.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f18HJTX00470; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:19:29 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from jason) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:19:29 -0700 From: Jason F Wells To: simond@irrelevant.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keyboard detection in 4.2-RELEASE, 4.2-STABLE Message-ID: <20010208101929.A443@fry.routermonkey.com> References: <006c01c09128$735f2af0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <8106.981565690@cs.ucl.ac.uk> <20010207101923.B6097@fry.routermonkey.com> <20010208100727.A91375@irrelevant.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010208100727.A91375@irrelevant.org>; from simond@irrelevant.org on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:07:27AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:07:27AM +0000, simond@irrelevant.org wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:19:23AM -0700, Jason F Wells wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:08:10PM +0000, Greg MATTHEWS wrote: > > > would i be right in assuming that freebsd works like other unixen > > > (sunos/solaris in my exp) in that booting without k/b forces the i/o through > > > the console (serial) port. therefore plugging a kb in has no effect. > > > > I don't think this is the case, as the console output still goes to the > > monitor. I've also played with the settings in /boot.conf (using -D as the > > flag) to force console to always go to screen / keyboard. > > > > As I said before; it used to work, until 4.2; I'm just looking for > > what has changed, and if there's any way to set it back. > > Try removing the flags 0x1 from the atkbd0 line of your config file, that > fixed my problems with the same sort of thing, basically it means that if > it can't detect any keyboard then it doesn't install the keyboard device. > Thank you. That makes it work the same as it used to in previous versions. After you mentioned this, I noticed that the LINT kernel documents this fairly well. Jason. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message