From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 4 19:46:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AEFB37B412 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 19:46:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from angmar.mel.vet.com.au (angmar.mel.vet.com.au [203.39.245.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3593243F75 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 19:46:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from odela01@ca.com) Received: from nargothrond.ca.com (nargothrond.ca.com [155.35.178.10]) by angmar.mel.vet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA98614F303 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 12:46:22 +1000 (EST) Received: from ca.com ([155.35.178.101]) by nargothrond.ca.com with esmtp; Mon, 05 May 2003 12:46:22 +1000 Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 12:46:13 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: Lachlan O'Dea To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 0.5.4 (v22 Jaguar) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Subject: USB keyboard riddle X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 02:46:26 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, here's a riddle for you. I've got a machine with an Abit AT7 motherboard. So no legacy ports, just USB and Firewire. The BIOS has two options for USB keyboard support: "BIOS" or "OS". OS means that the operating system must support the keyboard, BIOS means that the BIOS will emulate a standard keyboard. The keyboard only works in FreeBSD if it's set to OS, but Windows XP doesn't seem to care. This is OK, except that I want to dual boot between Windows XP and FreeBSD. Both the FreeBSD boot manager and GRUB rely on BIOS calls to read from the keyboard. So to actually make a selection in the boot manager, I have to set the keyboard support to BIOS, but then I can't use the keyboard once FreeBSD is running. Is it possible to make this work? I couldn't see anything obvious in the ukbd man page. ==== Lachlan O'Dea Computer Associates Pty Ltd Webmaster Vet - Anti-Virus Software http://www.vet.com.au/ Ich bin CA! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQE+tdB9oBZahcUBONoRAnsPAJwN2PP3KpqENKCUIxcEfRENBXQLSwCgnrve RXsbThYteHk1Uj6BPFS66u0= =ISfh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----