On Thursday 07 April 2005 08:45 pm, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:13:23AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Friday 25 March 2005 02:41 pm, David O'Brien wrote: > > > I'd like to change the beastie.4th menu to have a "safe" keyboard > > > option instead of a USB specific one. This changes hint.atkbd.0.flags > > > from 0x1 to 0x9. I'm open to a better term than "safe keyboard" as it > > > is too close to the full-fledged "safe mode". > > > > > > Does anyone know if this will cause any system problems using a USB > > > keyboard? > > > > I don't think this is appropriate as the 0x8 hint should really only be > > used for the R3000 and not for any old machine that wants to use a USB > > keyboard. > > Agreed for the running OS one wants to use 0x1. But what about in the > installer? If there isn't harm to either the 0x8 needing case nor 0x1 > needing case if 0x9 is used; then why not create the "safe keyboard" > catch all? The problem is that we don't know that there isn't harm to the 0x8 case on non-broken machines. The conservative thing to do in that case is to let people turn on 0x8 if they need it, but don't do it by default and don't tell people who want to use a USB keyboard that they have to have it turned on as well. -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Fri Apr 08 2005 - 17:42:37 UTC
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