Subject: Re: kern/11873: wskbd doesn't work if it's not the console
To: None <fvdl@vaasje.org>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/02/2001 12:10:26
>>Description:
>	When wskbd is not the console keyboard, it doesn't work, i.e.
>	no input gets through.

i find this amusing...because i discovered the eact same thing last
night when i was trying to get x to work.

>>How-To-Repeat:
>	I have a kernel config file aimed at reproducing a problem while
>	running X, but having a serial console, to be able to use DDB.
>	Its config file is appended below. wsdisplay, kbd, and how they
>	are attached seem to be probed correctly, but any getty process
>	running on /dev/ttyE* does not receive any keyboard input.

is this a laptop machine?

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