From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 7 07:01:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA09001 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Sep 1996 07:01:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA08994 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 1996 07:01:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA10794; Sat, 7 Sep 1996 16:59:49 +0300 Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 16:59:48 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Paul Traina cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: last commit to syscons re: keyboard probes In-Reply-To: <199609062339.QAA14540@red.jnx.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Paul Traina wrote: > I'm not particularly enamoured with the commit I made to make syscons disable > itself if a keyboard is not present. I think it's an ugly kludge. What we > should be doing is probing properly for the video card and NOT crashing if > it's not found. Hmmm.... So if there is the prblem with my otherwise keyboardless server and I walk over to it, plug in a keyboard (I know it may be harmful, etc.) then in the future the system will just not recognise it as it was not present at the boot-up time (say a spontaneous one in the middle of the night)? I wouldn't be too happy :-( Sander > > If someone wants to do it properly, you will not hurt my feelings if you remove > the current keyboard check kludge. > > Paul >