From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 20 15:26:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F345616A420 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:25:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5690C43D5A for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:25:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B1285C94; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:25:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 99855-10; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:25:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-251-207.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.251.207]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69F775C27; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:25:45 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43F9DF7A.2030500@mac.com> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:25:46 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Candler References: <20060219113120.b7dcbdf0.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20060219123118.GA46877@uk.tiscali.com> <43F8F32F.6070100@pubnix.net> <20060220125857.GA50685@uk.tiscali.com> <43F9D1AB.2030506@mac.com> <20060220150846.GA51152@uk.tiscali.com> In-Reply-To: <20060220150846.GA51152@uk.tiscali.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: current Subject: Re: attaching a keyboard later X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:26:00 -0000 Brian Candler wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:26:51AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> Brian Candler wrote: [ ... ] > Setting bit 0 gives a numeric value of 0x1. Yes? Yes. > The man page says that "This option prevents the driver from being > installed" if a keyboard is not actually attached to the system at bootup > time. Agreed. > The OP wanted to ensure that his keyboard would work if plugged in later. > > According to the manpage, then, he would need to set this flag to 0x0 (or at > least, any value with the LSB set to 0, i.e. any even value) > > According to someone else, it's necessary to set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1" > > Therefore, I perceive a conflict in information. If I'm overlooking > something, can you please point it out to me? Ah, I see the conflict too. Maybe I'm getting too used to toggling bits when the thing they control doesn't work right to pay sufficient attention to which value actually over-rides the default behavior. :-) -- -Chuck