Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:12:59 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Cole <cole@opteqint.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard Boot Disable Message-ID: <20060425201259.GA24568@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060425200906.7A35443D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20060425200906.7A35443D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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--17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:10:55PM +0200, Cole wrote: > Hi. >=20 > I have a large amount of servers, and the problem is, that when I need > to plug a keyboard into them, the keyboard is disabled since they > werent booted with a keyboard. > > I was wondering if anyone has some idea of how to disable the keyboard > probe at boot and make it so that the OS thinks that the keyboard is > present even if its not plugged in, so that a keyboard can be plugged > in at any stage, and will function normally. > > Im speaking specifically for ps2 keyboards. Is this even possible, or > are there architecture problems or something else relating to this > that would make this impossible? > > If this is possible, could someone please point me in the correct > direction as to which code I would need to look at to make this > possible? What version of FreeBSD are you running? This hasn't been the case by default for ages. As a warning, PS2 keyboards are not electricaly designed to be hotplug so you may blow your machine up by doing this (says someone who does it all the time). -- Brooks --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEToLKXY6L6fI4GtQRAgIVAJ4mzFWJth2nwYbhMti2O12HIkAF9wCg38zG hJJJ1ZRY0o5buF4uTXISsxw= =JnjT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp--
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