Keyboard Boot Disable
Brooks Davis
brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Tue Apr 25 21:06:28 UTC 2006
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:22:01PM +0200, Cole wrote:
> I realised I forgot the version after I mailed. Im speaking about
> FreeBSD 4.11. Also by blowing the machine up, what exactly do you
> mean? You end up blowing the motherboard? Or the keyboard? Or
> specifically what?
On 4.x you can remove the default flags from they atkbd entry and I
think that will do it. See the atkbd(4) manpage for details. Hot
plugging or unplugging they keyboard can damage the motherboard or
keyboard.
-- Brooks
>
> Regards
> /Cole
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brooks Davis [mailto:brooks at one-eyed-alien.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:13 PM
> To: Cole
> Cc: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Keyboard Boot Disable
>
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:10:55PM +0200, Cole wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have a large amount of servers, and the problem is, that when I need
> > to plug a keyboard into them, the keyboard is disabled since they
> > werent booted with a keyboard.
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone has some idea of how to disable the keyboard
> > probe at boot and make it so that the OS thinks that the keyboard is
> > present even if its not plugged in, so that a keyboard can be plugged
> > in at any stage, and will function normally.
> >
> > Im speaking specifically for ps2 keyboards. Is this even possible, or
> > are there architecture problems or something else relating to this
> > that would make this impossible?
> >
> > If this is possible, could someone please point me in the correct
> > direction as to which code I would need to look at to make this
> > possible?
>
> What version of FreeBSD are you running? This hasn't been the case by
> default for ages. As a warning, PS2 keyboards are not electricaly
> designed to be hotplug so you may blow your machine up by doing this
> (says someone who does it all the time).
>
> -- Brooks
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