Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 00:05:57 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: who broke keyboards again? Message-ID: <200404030005.57949.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040401213559.GZ26131@elvis.mu.org> References: <20040401213559.GZ26131@elvis.mu.org>
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On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 07:05, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I have a client that has several dell machines, when he boots without > a keyboard he gets: > > atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 > > but no: > atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 > kbd0 at atkbd0 > > This used to work, then was broken by someone trying to "do the right > thing". I have some motherboards like that too, they've always been broken. I deal with it by rolling a release with the flags set to force PS/2 keyboard detection. I'd like it fixed but I don't have the clue to do so. The bit *I* see as broken is keybaord detection. Dunno if its the same for you.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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