Re: ddb input via IPMI virtual console

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost (Edgar =?iso-8859-1?B?RnXf?=) writes:

>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.

IPMI is a serial console. You could just tell the kernel to use it and console
and DDB will be independent of the VGA graphics.

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