From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Mar 22 23: 5:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (mail.tgd.net [209.81.25.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB16737B400 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:05:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.tgd.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D6D2221027; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:20:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:20:55 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden To: Hug Me Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with keyboard on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020322182055.A20470@ninja1.internal> References: <20020314115743.N28153-100000@floyd.getsetnet.net> <20020315005729.4824437B400@hub.freebsd.org> <20020314202141.N97250@pitr.tuxinternet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020314202141.N97250@pitr.tuxinternet.com>; from "hugme@hugme.org" on Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at = 08:21:41PM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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