hello. Since you're using IPMI, how about using a serial console in the kernel and then using ipmitool to talk to DDB when/if the machine goes down? You should be able to do this and still have a virtual VGA console, but kernel messages won't go there. This also has the advantage that you can run script(1) and capture DDB output and/or panic messages for posterity if you need them.
-Brian On Aug 6, 2:27pm, Edgar =?iso-8859-1?B?RnXf?= wrote: } Subject: ddb input via IPMI virtual console } It looks like my IPMI implementation always emulates a USB keyboard on } the virtual console. The real keyboards are PS/2 and I can't change that } because it runs on a wire physically passing a /real/ firewall, e. g. } a constructive element of the building designed to confine a possible fire } in the server room. It's close to prohibitively expensive to install another } (USB) cable through that and I didn't think about it when I orderd power, } VGA and PS/2 cables to be routed through the firewall. } } Can I have ddb input multiplexed from both PS/2 and USB? >-- End of excerpt from Edgar =?iso-8859-1?B?RnXf?=
