From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 7 11:45:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA28827 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Sep 1996 11:45:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from red.jnx.com (ppp-206-170-2-52.sntc01.pacbell.net [206.170.2.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA28807 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 1996 11:45:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from base.jnx.com (base.jnx.com [208.197.169.238]) by red.jnx.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA22119; Sat, 7 Sep 1996 11:45:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from base.jnx.com (localhost.jnx.com [127.0.0.1]) by base.jnx.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA05670; Sat, 7 Sep 1996 11:45:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609071845.LAA05670@base.jnx.com> To: Narvi cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: last commit to syscons re: keyboard probes In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Sep 1996 16:59:48 +0300." Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 11:45:16 -0700 From: Paul Traina Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk That's why it's a bloody OPTION. From: Narvi Subject: Re: last commit to syscons re: keyboard probes On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Paul Traina wrote: > I'm not particularly enamoured with the commit I made to make syscons disab >>le > 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 re >>move > the current keyboard check kludge. > > Paul >