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Robert Millan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think it would be good to make at_keyboard the default input terminal on
> i386-ieee1275, after the kernel has loaded (via grub-mkconfig).  The AT
> keyboard is the only choice on OLPC anyway, and avoids ofconsole bugs
> (this used to be the old behaviour before the terminal split).
> 
> Also, I think it would be good to make vga_text the default output terminal
> on i386-pc, provided that gfxterm auto-setup (in grub-mkconfig.in) wasn't
> possible.  BIOS output is occasionally buggy (seen in a recent thread), and
> this way we avoid problems.

And how does this work with USB keyboards that would be supported by
BIOS if configured so... ?