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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>

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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

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