From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 19 22:37:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 452BA16A420 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:37:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ahebert@pubnix.net) Received: from mail.pubnix.net (Mail.pubnix.net [192.172.250.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDACD43D69 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:37:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ahebert@pubnix.net) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (aal.pubnix.net [64.235.216.13]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.pubnix.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1JMbZBW089401 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:37:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ahebert@pubnix.net) Message-ID: <43F8F32F.6070100@pubnix.net> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:37:35 -0500 From: Alain Hebert Organization: PubNIX, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060219113120.b7dcbdf0.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20060219123118.GA46877@uk.tiscali.com> In-Reply-To: <20060219123118.GA46877@uk.tiscali.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: attaching a keyboard later X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ahebert@pubnix.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:37:37 -0000 What works for me: In device.hints -> hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1" Brian Candler wrote: >On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:31:20AM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > > >>back in the 3.x days It was possible to attach a keyboard later to a >>system after it was booted up and having it working. If I'm not mistaken >>this was possible via a boot(8) switch. I can't find a switch in the man >>page which reads like it does that now. Can someone tell me if it is still >>possible and maybe what to do? >> >> > >I can't speak for -CURRENT as I'm not running it right now, but on 6.0 the >atkbd(4) manpage says: > > Driver Flags > The atkbd driver accepts the following driver flags. They can be set > either in /boot/device.hints, or else from within the boot loader (see > loader(8)). > > bit 0 (FAIL_IF_NO_KBD) > By default the atkbd driver will install even if a keyboard is not > actually connected to the system. This option prevents the driver > from being installed in this situation. >... > bit 3 (NO_PROBE_TEST) > When this option is given, the atkbd driver will not test the key- > board port during the probe routine. Some machines hang during > boot when this test is performed. > >but unfortunately doesn't give an exact example of how to use this, nor does >it give the default setting of the flags. ISTR that in FreeBSD 4.x, you had >a flags=0x01 setting in the kernel configuration file, which you could >change to 0x00 to get the keyboard to work even if not detected at bootup >time. > >I guess you could try something like > >hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x00 >or >hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x08 > >If you find out exactly what this is, please submit a patch for the manpage >:-) > >HTH, > >Brian. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > -- Alain Hebert ahebert@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. P.O. Box 175 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T7 tel 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net fax 514-990-9443