Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:28:57 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Sean Chittenden" <sean-freebsd-questions@chittenden.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: No keyboard at boottime prevents use of keyboard later! Message-ID: <002401c11593$de0aa560$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010725155815.F62426@rand.tgd.net>
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Most people that run several servers use electronic keyboard switches. It's only the sites with hundreds of individual server boxes where the electronic keyboard switches become economically impractical. Consider also that unlike mouse ports, you can destroy keyboard ports by plugging and unplugging keyboards when the box is hot (because the electrical design of the port does not have any protection diodes to damp surges down, unlike RS232 which is designed for this) Of course, too many people have gotten away for too long without burning up keyboard ports by hot plugging to get most of the masses to believe you, but if you ask an EE that designs motherboards they will tell you the truth. It only takes one, though, and I know I've fried at least 2 keyboard ports when I was younger and stupider. In short, the software does it right. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Sean Chittenden >Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:58 PM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: No keyboard at boottime prevents use of keyboard later! > > >> Russel Lahti solved this problem for me on 7/20: >> >> > In your kernel configuration, there is a line: >> > >> > device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1 >> > >> > Change it to this: >> > >> > device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 >> > >> > That fixed the problem for me. > > This begs the question: why is this flag turned on by default? >If this is a security "feature," why not have a config variable >someplace turn off keyboard access? -sc > >-- >Sean Chittenden > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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