Re: attaching a keyboard later

What works for me:

    In device.hints -> hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1"

Brian Candler wrote:

>On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:31:20AM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
>  
>
>>back in the 3.x days It was possible to attach a keyboard later to a
>>system after it was booted up and having it working. If I'm not mistaken
>>this was possible via a boot(8) switch. I can't find a switch in the man
>>page which reads like it does that now. Can someone tell me if it is still
>>possible and maybe what to do?
>>    
>>
>
>I can't speak for -CURRENT as I'm not running it right now, but on 6.0 the
>atkbd(4) manpage says:
>
>   Driver Flags
>     The atkbd driver accepts the following driver flags.  They can be set
>     either in /boot/device.hints, or else from within the boot loader (see
>     loader(8)).
>
>     bit 0 (FAIL_IF_NO_KBD)
>           By default the atkbd driver will install even if a keyboard is not
>           actually connected to the system.  This option prevents the driver
>           from being installed in this situation.
>...
>     bit 3 (NO_PROBE_TEST)
>           When this option is given, the atkbd driver will not test the key-
>           board port during the probe routine.  Some machines hang during
>           boot when this test is performed.
>
>but unfortunately doesn't give an exact example of how to use this, nor does
>it give the default setting of the flags. ISTR that in FreeBSD 4.x, you had
>a flags=0x01 setting in the kernel configuration file, which you could
>change to 0x00 to get the keyboard to work even if not detected at bootup
>time.
>
>I guess you could try something like
>
>hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x00
>or
>hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x08
>
>If you find out exactly what this is, please submit a patch for the manpage
>:-)
>
>HTH,
>
>Brian.
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