Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4547 mails)

[GarUlbricht7@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Pieter Hulshoff wrote :

>Hello all,
>
> I have a non-standard keyboard 
> (an arcade controller with a keyboard mapper) 
> that doesn't let its presence be known. 
> If I have a keyboard hooked up to it, 
> SuSE 9.1 has no problem activating it, 
> and it stays active even after I disconnect the keyboard 
> from the arcade controller. 
>
> If however I don't have a keyboard hooked up to it, 
> the system doesn't respond to any of its keys.
>
> It did work fine in SuSE 8.2 however, 
> which leads me to believe there've been some changes
> in the boot sequence that stop it from working now
>(it works neither in X nor in console windows). 
>
> A possible source for this problem might be /etc/rc.d/kbd. 
> Does anyone know how I can make SuSE just accept a keyboard
> in stead of probing for one?
>
> Regards,
>
> Pieter Hulshoff
>

Hi Pieter,

I don't have 9.1.  However a similar question was aked last
December with regard to 8.1.

The answers included:

If you want to disable the scan at boot-up, 
just issue an 'insserv -r hwscan'.

And:

go to YAST --> SYSTEM -->  Runlevel editor 
 
and disable  "hardware scan"

And:

Look at script in:
 
    /etc/init.d/hwscan.  

See:  
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Dec/0337.html
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Dec/0338.html
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Dec/0339.html

Hope this helps,

Gar

-- 

PS.  Needless to  say, you need to include your keyboard
definition in /etc/X11/XF86Config 
or similar.

-- 



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