Re: usb keyboard not working in single user mode

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 09:17:37PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Ken McKittrick wrote:

> > I've got 5.1-current running on an IBM BladeCenter HS20. This thing has
> > a USB KVM built-in. It's working in multi-user mode. Problem is when I
> > boot to single user, can't do anything.

> Check that atkbd is using flags 0x1.  That should cause atkbd not to
> attach and allow ukbd to take over.  If your system happens to emulate a
> atkbd even when one is not attached, you will have to modify the start
> scripts to run kbdcontrol even in the single-user case (if thats even
> possible).

No /etc/rc* scripts are run in single-user mode. You would have to put
it in /.profile, with a test such as [ $(/bin/ps -o ppid= -p $$) = 1 ].

Jilles Tjoelker