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Date:      Sat, 23 Mar 2002 09:02:59 +0000
From:      Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org>
To:        Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
Cc:        Hug Me <hugme@hugme.org>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with keyboard on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20020323090259.GA1213@irrelevant.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020322182055.A20470@ninja1.internal>
References:  <20020314115743.N28153-100000@floyd.getsetnet.net> <20020315005729.4824437B400@hub.freebsd.org> <20020314202141.N97250@pitr.tuxinternet.com> <20020322182055.A20470@ninja1.internal>

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On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 06:20:55PM -0800, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > >     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

There's no risk to your keyboard/motherboard by removing the 0x1 flag,
FreeBSD itself defaulted to that until 4.2! :)

-- 
Simon Dick					simond@irrelevant.org

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