Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:25:46 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: attaching a keyboard later Message-ID: <43F9DF7A.2030500@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20060220150846.GA51152@uk.tiscali.com> References: <20060219113120.b7dcbdf0.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20060219123118.GA46877@uk.tiscali.com> <43F8F32F.6070100@pubnix.net> <20060220125857.GA50685@uk.tiscali.com> <43F9D1AB.2030506@mac.com> <20060220150846.GA51152@uk.tiscali.com>
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Brian Candler wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:26:51AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> Brian Candler wrote: [ ... ] > Setting bit 0 gives a numeric value of 0x1. Yes? Yes. > The man page says that "This option prevents the driver from being > installed" if a keyboard is not actually attached to the system at bootup > time. Agreed. > The OP wanted to ensure that his keyboard would work if plugged in later. > > According to the manpage, then, he would need to set this flag to 0x0 (or at > least, any value with the LSB set to 0, i.e. any even value) > > According to someone else, it's necessary to set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1" > > Therefore, I perceive a conflict in information. If I'm overlooking > something, can you please point it out to me? Ah, I see the conflict too. Maybe I'm getting too used to toggling bits when the thing they control doesn't work right to pay sufficient attention to which value actually over-rides the default behavior. :-) -- -Chuck
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