Please allow me a technical sidenote: On Sat, 14 May 2011 20:53:27 -0700 (PDT), Rob Clark <rpcl...@ymail.com> wrote: > Trying the obvious first, I unplugged the keyboard and plugged it > back in the ps2 port, and keyboard worked immediately -- this > was repeatable.
Do _NOT_ hotplug the PS/2 port! It's not capable of that! I've seen myself in the past that trying so caused a mainboard to fly into the garbage can - as hotplugging the keyboard seemed to have damaged the PS/2 port (it didn't work anymore, with no keyboard). However, you actually CAN do this with USB. And I've done hotplugging with an old AT ("big" 5 pin keyboard connector) and HIL connect/disconnect at the keyboard (!) without any problem (IBM model M, the famous one). > Some digging around revealed that I had the following > line in /etc/rc.conf twice: > moused_enable="YES" This doesn't matter: /etc/rc.conf is a shell script included in system scripts that does just contain variables that are set. Compare the following: x = 3; x = 3; What does happen? Or even this: x = 3; x = 4; You can have the same line 100 times in this file, with the result that the _last_ setting will be used. See "man rc.conf" for details. > I removed one of these (which I guess was the culprit) and left > one as it should have been, then all was well. So _that_ is very strange, if one has the functionality of /etc/rc, rc.conf, and the rc.d/ scripts in mind... having a line twice in the config file does _not_ imply a service is started twice. > I have no idea why I had moused_enable="YES" in there twice, > whether it was from an old or recent rc.conf edit, but it > clearly seems to have been causing the issue. Coincidence, covariation, correlation...? :-) > Other (maybe valuable) info: > I am running hald in /etc/rc.conf as follows: > dbus_enable="YES" > hald_enable="YES" > ...and these were there prior to the ports update. > > I figured this "issue" may be of some value since I did not > do any src updates. While moused is part of the base system (updated per source or freebsd-update), dbus and hal are ports (job for portmaster). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"