From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 5 18: 2:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CBA537B401 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:02:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ziz.org (ziz.org [198.49.247.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6599843E65 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:02:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@ziz.org) Received: from ziz.org (ziz@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ziz.org (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8612U61006902 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 19:02:30 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@ziz.org) Received: (from ziz@localhost) by ziz.org (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) id g8612ULq006901 for stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 19:02:30 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@ziz.org) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 19:02:30 -0600 From: Justin To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard question Message-ID: <20020906010230.GA6862@ziz.org> References: <20020905175432.E50308@ffwd.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020905175432.E50308@ffwd.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Mailer: Mutt 1.4i (2002-05-29) 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 This is, in fact, an issue with the way PS/2 keyboards work; I'm not sure of all the technical details, but basically they have a timer chip in them that is required by the motherboard to work properly; modern machines that can run headless will redirect at an internal chip if there is no keyboard attached, but it requires resetting the keyboard bus (i.e. rebooting) to get it to switch from the non-keyboard to the keyboard. A USB keyboard, or a keyboard emulator box that will plug into the PS/2 port and act like a keyboard until you plug a real keyboard into it, is probably your best bet. -Justin On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 05:54:32PM -0700, Skye Poier wrote: > Hello, quick question... > > After I boot up my server, sometimes I would like to hook up a keyboard > and monitor to run some commands. However the keyboard will not work > unless it was booted with it connected, and I would rather not leave it > this way in the rack. > > Is this a problem with the keyboard, the mobo, or FreeBSD? > Or a combination of the above? > > I'm using FreeBSD 4.6.2, Intel L440GX+ mobo, Logitech 'deluxe access' > keyboard (ps/2 connector) > > Thanks, > Skye > > PS: I'm using memtest86 to do some burn-in testing, _great_ program > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message