From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 24 12:14: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from manor.msen.com (manor.msen.com [148.59.4.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D35237B417 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:13:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wayne@localhost) by manor.msen.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA77088 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:13:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wayne) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:13:58 -0500 From: "Michael R. Wayne" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Force keyboard detection flag? Message-ID: <20020124151358.X18453@staff.msen.com> References: <20020117120511.W73347@staff.msen.com> <0201171721140C.03869@germanium> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <0201171721140C.03869@germanium>; from baldur@foo.is on Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:21:14PM +0000 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 On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:21:14PM +0000, Baldur Gislason wrote: > Have you never compiled your own kernel? Here's a paste from LINT: Often. You misread my email. > On Thursday 17 January 2002 17:05, you wrote: > > I started to look through the kernel code for keyboard detection > > with plans toward having a sysctl that forces the keyboard at run > > time, rather than kernel compile. But I got sidetracked. In other words, one could be running GENERIC. Boot the machine w/o a keyboard. Plug a keyboard in. ssh in and type something like sysctl -w enable.the.damn.keyboard.right.now=1 and the keyboard would come live. /\/\ \/\/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message