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Date:      Fri, 05 Sep 1997 10:30:50
From:      netnology@psinet.net.au
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Keyboard Question
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.19970905103050.0160bc00@mail.psinet.net.au>

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At 11:28 4/09/97 -0700, you wrote:
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>If the keyboard is detached from a running system (2.2-RELEASE) is
>that okay--it will keep running and not reboot?  And can it then be
>reattached?  (I know that sounds odd, but I'd like to be able to 
>use the keyboard temporarily on a different system.)
>
>	Annelise
>
>
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Annelise,

We do this very thing, with both the keyboard and monitor, and it seems to
work fine except for rebooting the machine.  If the keyboard is not present
at some stage during the system running, our BSD would not restart, it
would just sit there and wait.  The reply we got from Doug White was

"This happens on some systems, and there isn't much you can do for it.
Blame it on cheap hardware.
 
There is a kernel option called `BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET' that you could
compile with and that would try a more direct method of rebooting the
system.  See LINT for usage."

This seemed to fix the problem.

Regards
Craig Beasland

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