Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:25:55 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Connecting mouse/keyboard to server booted without Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810281023510.29272-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3630D058.2C18@echidna.com>
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On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Graeme Tait wrote: > First a meta-question - I understand cross-posting is deprecated, but is > the following question better asked here or on freebsd-isp? I don't have > a sense of how many subscribers to the latter list aren't on this list, > and whether I might miss useful advice they would have. This is a -questions question. I'm generally OK with marginal stuff being posted to questions since it's a first-contact list; somoene will let you know if you should take it to a specific forum. > However, on occasion, we will be physically at the colo facility, and > will want to hook up a keyboard, monitor and maybe mouse, without > disrupting the server operation (e.g., with a reboot). > > The monitor is presumably not a problem to connect/disconnect. > > By experiment, connecting/disconnecting the keyboard to the live system > seems to work OK, although I don't know if this is recommended practice. > > However booting without the PS/2 mouse leaves it inoperative, and X will > not run. Not that that's essential, but it might be convenient. I tried > running sysinstall after booting without mouse attached and then > connecting the mouse, but I couldn't get the mouse to work. How about a serial mouse? There isn't a way of forcing a reprobe of the psm driver after boot. > How do people normally deal with this situation? (I'd like to have the > mouse work, but I'm more concerned about any issues with the keyboard, > etc.). Or how about running X on anoter machine, like a laptop, and remote connecting? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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