From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 17 21:49:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C72037B405 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:49:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g3I4nEH46689; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:49:14 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3I4nCx03460; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:49:13 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:48:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020417.224848.121576170.imp@village.org> To: yanek@cigital.com Cc: des@ofug.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Belkin 8-port KVM = keyboard inactive From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <51CC94132526754995E79DCF28C0C34D09B670@exchange.cigital.com> References: <51CC94132526754995E79DCF28C0C34D09B670@exchange.cigital.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <51CC94132526754995E79DCF28C0C34D09B670@exchange.cigital.com> Yanek Korff 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message