Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:22:53 -0500 From: "Shaun T. Erickson" <ste@smxy.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?! Message-ID: <405FD7BD.8060004@smxy.org> In-Reply-To: <038c01c4109d$858a4dc0$1a01a8c0@blackstar.net> References: <405FC8A6.5040708@users.sourceforge.net><16479.52259.349047.251508@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <405FCE37.5060104@users.sourceforge.net> <038c01c4109d$858a4dc0$1a01a8c0@blackstar.net>
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Steve Ireland wrote: > This is a PS/2 thing, not an operating system thing. You really can > fry your motherboard plugging and unplugging PS/2 devices while the > system is powered up. I suppose it's possible, but I know I 've never fry'd one. I'm always unplugging and pluging mine back in. The key to getting the keyboard re-initialized, when you plug it back in - at least under 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 - is to change hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1" to hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x0" in /boot/device.hints and reboot. After that, you can plug and unplug to your heart's content. I'm told this setting may have to be made in the kernel, requiring a custom kernel, in 4.x releases. -ste
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