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Date:      Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:21:30 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Force keyboard detection flag?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020115182130.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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I was wondering if there is a flag to force the kernel to detect a PS/2
keyboard even if it doesn't detect one.

The usual answer is 'set atkbdc flags to 0x0' but you can't do that if you are
installing for the first time - when you boot -c the config prompt is printed
in an infinite loop :(

The newer keyboards I have (Mitsubishi Diamond Touch) do not get detected by
FreeBSD so every time I need to install from a base CD I have to dig up my
detectable keyboard and hot swap it after the detection phase.

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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