Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:17:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis <dl-freebsd@catspoiler.org> To: davep@meduseld.net Cc: mike@vee.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bootstrap loader + USB keyboard no-worky Message-ID: <200207120517.g6C5Hdwr012869@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <20020711.222446.730551969.davep@meduseld.net>
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On 11 Jul, David A. Panariti wrote: > > Check your BIOS. > Mine (Award on an old Soyo 6BA+IV) has an option to enable support for > USB keyboards. > Works great with BootMagic and the FreeBSD bootldr. My GigaByte GA-7DX+ also has this option and the loader sees my USB keyboard when I have this option enabled. The problem is that the keyboard probe code in the kernel (at least in -current) is also fooled into thinking a PS/2 keyboard is present, which it decides it likes better than the USB keyboard. Some time later it must figure out that the PS/2 keyboard isn't there after all, at least according to kbdcontrol, but it isn't smart enough to switch to the USB device. This is especially inconvenient when my NIC card also isn't found and I'm left with a running system that isn't accepting input from anywhere. At that point the only way I can recover is to hit the reset switch. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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