Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 08:56:26 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <200005121256.IAA10021@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000512165338.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 12-May-00 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 12-May-00 Warner Losh wrote: >> In message <200005120305.UAA27029@freefall.freebsd.org> John Baldwin writes: >> : booted a GENERIC kernel and use it. AT keyboards aren't designed for >> : this anyway. USB keyboards are designed for this, and they work. >> >> This is unacceptible. Please allow it at least as an option. > > Yes.. I have a quite a number of machines without keyboards attached to which I > plug keyboards INTO to fix things.. > > (Assuming that this commit does indeed break that functionality :) It is an _option_ that I turned on by default so that we actually see USB keyboards when no AT keyboard is present. You can easily get this functionality back by recompiling a custom kernel without 'flags 0x1' for the atkbd0 device or even by changing the flags via userconfig. > --- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200005121256.IAA10021>