Unable to use a PS/2 keyboard after a boot without it.

Julian C. Dunn lists+freebsd at aquezada.com
Sat Jul 31 17:40:05 PDT 2004


On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Josh Tolbert wrote:

> As far as why FreeBSD doesn't recognize PS/2 hardware after it's hot-plugged,
> I can't help you there. You might consider looking at the flags for the
> drivers that work with the keyboard.

Delete "flags 0x01" from the line in your kernel config that references 
atkbd. According to LINT, "0x01" forces detection of the keyboard, so if 
you booted without it plugged in, the atkbd driver will never be loaded as 
a keyboard was not detected.

- Julian

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