Re: Problems with switch view and FreeBSD

2004-12-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 03:23:15PM +0530, Subhro typed:
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ricardo Pichler
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 19:05
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Problems with switch view and FreeBSD
> 
> 
> > I've various FreeBSD box running, they are working without keyboard and
> > when
> > I try connect the keyboard, the system don't respond but the system be
> > working. 
> 
> 
> The reason why it is not working for you is, the BIOS of your mother board
> does not enable the Keyboard PS2 port till it "sees" the keyboard. Turn off
> the autodetection of keyboard from the BIOs and it will work fine.

Wrong. He has to edit /boot/device.hints and replace

hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1"

by

hint.atkbd.0.flags="0"

Ruben

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RE: Problems with switch view and FreeBSD

2004-12-25 Thread Subhro



> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ricardo Pichler
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 19:05
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Problems with switch view and FreeBSD


> I've various FreeBSD box running, they are working without keyboard and
> when
> I try connect the keyboard, the system don't respond but the system be
> working. 


The reason why it is not working for you is, the BIOS of your mother board
does not enable the Keyboard PS2 port till it "sees" the keyboard. Turn off
the autodetection of keyboard from the BIOs and it will work fine.

Regards
S.

Indian Institute of Information Technology
Subhro Sankha Kar
Block AQ-13/1, Sector V
Salt Lake City
PIN 700091
India


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