Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:29:05 +0100 From: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keyboard for a blade Message-ID: <20040611092905.GK70693@iconoplex.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040611090459.A676343D1D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20040611090459.A676343D1D@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:04:45PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: > Somehow the keyboard (USB/PS2) is rerouted, but gets lost to freebsd, > btw, im running current, since on stable the bge doesn't work. If there's no PS/2 keyboard attached at boot time, FBSD will unload the atkbd driver to a give a change to the driver for a USB keyboard and (rather infuriatingly for me) won't allow re-connection of a PS/2 keyboard until you either kbdcontrol it (how, if you haven't got a working keyboard?) or power cycle the box. Similar problems occur if you also don't have a USB keyboard attached. Your blade centre is probably only "connecting" a keyboard when you need it, so you should treat it like a headless server. In your kernel config change this line: device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1 For this one: device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 This means that the PS/2 atkbd driver will be loaded even if a keyboard is not actually connected at boot time. If that doesn't fix it in your blade centre, then it's because it's providing a "USB keyboard" to the blade not a PS/2 keyboard, and I don't know how to fix that one because I've never had the problem. Hope that helps somehow. -- Paul Robinson http://www.iconoplex.co.uk/
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