On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 18:52 -0600, Gerd Knops wrote:
> 
>       KVM users heads up: In order to support USB keyboards
>       the generic kernel does not install an atkbd0 driver
>       if no keyboard is detected. Some KVMs fail to sufficiently
>       emulate a keyboard, causing the system to fail to detect a
>       keyboard if the system is not currently selected on the KVM
>       switch. This can be avoided by removing the 'flags 0x1'
>       portion in the atkbd0 line of the kernel configuration file,
>       then building and installing a new kernel.

Is building and installing a new kernel necessary?  Changing the
flags in the USER_CONFIG menu or editing /boot/kernel.conf should
suffice.  So this could all be done at installation time and last
for ever -- if I'm not overlooking some important point.


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