When booting Linux on a keyboardless machine, the kernel complains about
too many NACKs and suggests a broken keyboard cable, which is not the case
when there is no keyboard attached. The error message could be changed to
a more general one, but I think the right thing to do is to disable
keyboard error reporting since it is only actually useful for debugging
purposes. Many servers such as the ones that I am setting up are
keyboardless, and I don't think the kernel should complain verbosely
about the admin's descision to not plug in a keyboard.
diff -ru linux.vanilla/include/linux/pc_keyb.h linux/include/linux/pc_keyb.h
--- linux.vanilla/include/linux/pc_keyb.h Mon Oct 11 10:15:40 1999
+++ linux/include/linux/pc_keyb.h Tue Jul 11 10:53:37 2000
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
#undef KBD_REPORT_ERR /* Report keyboard errors */
#define KBD_REPORT_UNKN /* Report unknown scan codes */
-#define KBD_REPORT_TIMEOUTS /* Report keyboard timeouts */
+#undef KBD_REPORT_TIMEOUTS /* Report keyboard timeouts */
#undef KBD_IS_FOCUS_9000 /* We have the brain-damaged FOCUS-9000 keyboard */
#undef INITIALIZE_MOUSE /* Define if your PS/2 mouse needs initialization. */
-
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