Mike,Looking at the keyboard pin-out, it uses only four lines:
Yes, I know that I can set this in bios, but... as I don't know which boxes are set up without this option, if I could shunt the keyboard connector, I wouldn't have to reboot the whole room. Nor would I need to drive 60 miles round trip to reboot.
keyboard clock, +5VDC, leyboard data and ground.
During the powerup sequence of your computer, you will notice that at one point your keyboard lights turn on and then off again. Now I'm not sure if at this point in time if the kb sends anything to the computer (data) that varifies that there is a keyboard present or if it just pulls the data line high/low.
I'm now using a usb kb and until the usb modules are loaded, linux reports no keyboard detected. I'll try pulling the data line hi/lo and see if this does report a kb and will post to this list(later this afternoon)
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