From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 3 0:18:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.threeh.com (ct515603-b.lafayt1.in.home.com [24.22.253.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E52337B403 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 00:18:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (rlucas@localhost) by mx2.threeh.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f837IkI10839; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 02:18:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rlucas@solidcomputing.com) Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 02:18:46 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Lucas X-X-Sender: To: G D McKee Cc: Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD without mouse and keyboard In-Reply-To: <001201c1324d$436a11e0$0a00a8c0@p300> Message-ID: <20010903021758.O10793-100000@mx2.threeh.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, G D McKee wrote: > Hi > > If you boot your PC without the keyboard or mouse connected - is there a way of firing up the keyboard and mouse drivers latter once telnet'ed into the box? > > Or, do I have to hit the restart button. The keyboard does function - num lock lights up and stuff - just no input on the screen - so if the driver could be loaded then I think it would work! > > Gordon > In your kernel configuration, there is a line: device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1 Change it to this: device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 That's according to an email that passed thru the list recently. I haven't tried it but it was said that should work. -Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message