Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:20:55 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> To: Hug Me <hugme@hugme.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with keyboard on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020322182055.A20470@ninja1.internal> In-Reply-To: <20020314202141.N97250@pitr.tuxinternet.com>; from "hugme@hugme.org" on Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at = 08:21:41PM References: <20020314115743.N28153-100000@floyd.getsetnet.net> <20020315005729.4824437B400@hub.freebsd.org> <20020314202141.N97250@pitr.tuxinternet.com>
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> > I am running FreeBSD 4.5 RELEASE on an x86 hardware based > > server. If the keyboard happens to come unplugged, upon plugging > > it back in there is no response from the system. I have to reboot > > for the keyboard to start working again. The problem is that I > > have to shut the machine down hard in order to do this, since the > > keyboard is unresponsive. Obviously the disks complain when I > > bring the machine up again, and this is a production server. If a > > keyboard accidentaly comes unplugged, is there anything you can do > > to get the system to interact with it rather than powering down > > and restarting? You run the risk of blowing your keyboard and/or motherboard, but you can remove 'flags 0x1' from your keybaord configuration in your kernel config and recompile. You didn't hear it from me. -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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