HEADSUP: kbdmux(4)/syscons(4) patch is in the tree

Maksim Yevmenkin maksim.yevmenkin at savvis.net
Wed Mar 1 09:56:43 PST 2006


Scott,

[...]

> One question: will this all just work if I boot single-user with kbdmux(4)
> loaded from /boot/loader.conf?  I'm thinking of things like my Dell 1850s

yes, it should work.

> that have a (not connected) AT keyboard, a USB keyboard through a local KVM
> and another through their remote access cards.  This all works great with
> the kbdmux in normal operation, but I have to remember to type the magic
> runes to disable the mux and the atkbd when I need to boot one of them in 
> single-user, or I end up with no usable keyboard at all.  It would be great
> if this all just worked, and from my reading of your patch it seems like it
> should, but I may be missing something.

no, you are not missing anything. it should just work. i even tried to 
drop into debugger with ctrl+alt+esc and kbdmux(4) still works.

max


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