On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, systems engineer wrote:

> > If you want it to come up even if NO KEYBOARD ATTACHED, set the variable
> > "nogfxkbd" to 1. (Goto command monitor (5), then "setenv nogfxkbd 1").
>
> history lesson:
>
> this prom option was added when the 75' keyboard/mouse/video kit was
> found to drain the keyboard supply voltage too low for the keyboard to
> be recognized by the prom, even though irix could see it just fine.
>
> along similar lines: some of the older sgi buildings had special closets
> with power and a/c and long long cables to the surrounding offices. this
> way, a graphics engineer could have a 4D/440VGXT desktop machine.
>

cool ;-)