From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Mar 23 1: 3:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from nelly.internal.irrelevant.org (irrelevant.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1233A37B421 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 01:03:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from simond by nelly.internal.irrelevant.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16ohQR-0000kj-00; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 09:02:59 +0000 Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 09:02:59 +0000 From: Simon Dick To: Sean Chittenden Cc: Hug Me , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with keyboard on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020323090259.GA1213@irrelevant.org> References: <20020314115743.N28153-100000@floyd.getsetnet.net> <20020315005729.4824437B400@hub.freebsd.org> <20020314202141.N97250@pitr.tuxinternet.com> <20020322182055.A20470@ninja1.internal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020322182055.A20470@ninja1.internal> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message