Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:48:48 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: yanek@cigital.com Cc: des@ofug.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Belkin 8-port KVM = keyboard inactive Message-ID: <20020417.224848.121576170.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <51CC94132526754995E79DCF28C0C34D09B670@exchange.cigital.com> References: <51CC94132526754995E79DCF28C0C34D09B670@exchange.cigital.com>
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Yanek Korff <yanek@cigital.com> writes:
: If you had quoted the next two sentences:
: So, looking at the atbkd man page indicates that a 0x1 is FAIL_IF_NO_KBD.
: So, thinking that was the root of all my troubles, I removed the flags,
: recompiled the kernel, and rebooted. Looks like my problems may be solved.
:
: I was looking for a more ... philosophical answer about the use of that
: flag:
: So my question is this: Under what circumstance would I ever want to fail on
: no keyboard? Even if there WERE no keyboard plugged in, is it not helpful
: to install the driver in anticipation of a keyboard being added (eg. server
: in a cage, keyboard plugged in when needed).
Think USB keyboards.
Warner
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