atkbd default flags

leafy wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:56:02AM -0800, Aaron Wohl wrote:
> 
>>- if you hook up a crash cart with a keyboard and monitor the keyboard
>>cant type in. It can only see a keyboard at boot  time
> 
> This can be corrected 
> 4.x -> remove the flags 0x01 in kernel for atkbdc
> 5.x -> remove hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1" in /boot/devices.hints

I gotta wonder about how much sense this makes, having the default flags
disable the keyboard if it's not present on bootup.

The man page for atkbd on a 5.2 box says:

   By default the atkbd driver will install even if a
   keyboard is not actually connected to the system.

So the default behavior of FreeBSD is to override the default behavior
of the atkbd driver - which seems quite bizarre.

Any chance that flag/hint could be changed in the default install?

	Barry