who broke keyboards again?

Michael Nottebrock michaelnottebrock at gmx.net
Fri Apr 2 08:15:54 PST 2004


Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> I have a client that has several dell machines, when he boots without
> a keyboard he gets:
> 
>   atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
> 
> but no:
>   atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
>   kbd0 at atkbd0
> 
> This used to work, then was broken by someone trying to "do the right
> thing".

jhb, three years ago, sys/i386/conf/GENERIC 1.255

> We need the keyboards to be hot swappable.

Use USB keyboards... The commit message of 1.255 suggests that you broke 
hotplugging for those again, have you checked this?

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