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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:48:43 -0400
From: Matt Adams <madams@phantomware.ca>
To: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] USB keyboard error
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On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 07:27:29AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:

> > This computer is attached to a KVM that includes USB keyboard & mouse
> > via a single USB attachment to the Dell (the KVM is a USB hub,
> > obviously).
> >
> > The mouse seems to work just fine but when I'm in rio and hit a key on
> > the USB keyboard I get the following error:
> >
> > usb/kb: /dev/kbin: unknown device in # filename
>
> it seems the prior diagnosis is correct.  the cpu kernels
> cpu, cpuf don't have the kbin device built in.
>
> however i'm a little confused.  do you start rio automaticly
> on your cpu server?

I only have one Plan 9 installation thus far.  It's all sitting on one
box.

> since it's come up, what's the rationale for making the kbin device
> '#Ι' (capitol iota)?  since 'Ι' looks just like 'I' with many fonts, i
> find it easy to confuse them.

Eh?


Matt