Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:40:06 -0500 From: <Muthu_T@Dell.com> To: <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: PE2850 + FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 - Keyboard not working Message-ID: <71F713C5E3CB7F4F9ACCBBB8E9BE318A1E1E23@blrx2kmbgl101.blr.amer.dell.com>
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>From: Brooks Davis [mailto:brooks@one-eyed-alien.net]=20 >Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 12:17 AM >>On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 08:42:32AM -0500, Muthu_T@Dell.com wrote: >> All, >>=20 >> Successfully installed FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 on Dell PE2860. >> After rebooting in the login prompt the system doesn't accept any=20 >> keystrokes. >> I have 1 USB and 1 PS/2 Keyboard. Both keyboards are working (caps=20 >> on/off, Numlock on/off works), but the characters doesn't comes to the=20 >> system console. >>=20 >> Attaching the dmesg output. >>=20 >> Looks like DELL DRAC (Dell Remote Access Card) card is identified as=20 >> Keyboard. >> See the line: (ukbd0: Dell DRAC4, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1) >>=20 >> Any fixes? > >From your other message, I think I see what's happening. The information that the PS/2 keyboard works in=20 >single user mode was critical. The root problem is that you can have one and only one console keyboard=20 >today. I'm working on fixing that, but it's going to take time. For now we're attemting to work around this >problem by making ukbd0 the console keyboard in multiuser mode via devd rules. >In your case this backfires because ukbd0 is your DRAC card not yoru external USB keyboard. A workaround=20 >that should work in your case is to boot into single user and comment out the ukbd related lines in >/etc/devd.conf. Then your PS/2 keyboard will remain your console keyboard. Commenting out the ukbd0 stuff in /etc/devd.conf does the magic. Now PS/2 keyboard is working fine! Installed the 64bit version of FreeBSD on this m/c. Running without any issue. Wonderful Job! :-) Thanks. --T. Muthu Mohan
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