Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 07:54:19 -0500 From: Rik Scarborough <RikSca@kc.rr.com> To: Tom Wiebe <twiebe@mac.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How good is USB Support??? Message-ID: <20020409125419.GA40594@gruffy.kc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <1DD72009-4BB0-11D6-A891-0030658FC1FC@mac.com> References: <1DD72009-4BB0-11D6-A891-0030658FC1FC@mac.com>
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On Tue, 09 Apr 2002, Tom Wiebe wrote: <snip> > But, I digress. My question here is, and I hope this is the appropriate > forum, how good is USB support in FreeBSD 4.5? > > I'm ordering a couple of boxes tomorrow and was wondering if I can get > away with using one of the many Apple USB keyboards and Logitech USB mice > that I have when I need to get hands on with my machine. > > If so, that would of course be ideal, allowing me to keep just one > keyboard/mouse combo in my server room and swap it around as needed. I've not tried to use a USB mouse or keyboard yet, but if you want to keep the keyboard/mice out of the server room, I'm running two FreeBSD servers "headless"; no keyboard, mouse, or monitor. Since I'm not in the same building with them, I do all the work I need to do on them using SSH over the Internet. I've even done that using Mac OS X and it worked perfectly. If your running Mac OS X, you could even get XFree86 up and running and be able to run X programs on the FreeBSD boxes and have the displays show up on the Mac OS X box. I've not done that yet, but I have gotten XFree86 working on a Mac OS X box (really the best of two worlds), so it should work great. > > If not, and I apologize for this rather basic question, are PS/2 keyboards/ > mice hot swappable or would I be risking frying my computer by switching > them around. I haven't seriously used x86 hardware since before the 386, > so I'm a tad out of date here. > > Oh, and thanks to Steve Jobs, for showing us Mac guys how cool BSD is! Thanks to Steve Jobs for making Macs really useful to those of us that appreciate Unix. ~Rik -- Ranger Rik -- RikSca@mac.com Brought to you by FreeBSD 4.5 Joshua 24:15 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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