Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 21:37:33 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Rajappa Iyer <rsi@panix.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing 5.3-BETA7 without PS/2 keyboard Message-ID: <20041008043733.GA9549@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <1383.69.109.125.98.1097208742.squirrel@69.109.125.98> References: <1383.69.109.125.98.1097208742.squirrel@69.109.125.98>
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--cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:12:22AM -0400, Rajappa Iyer wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I hope someone can help me out here. I have a machine with > no PS/2 connectors... so I only have USB keyboard. I have turned > on the BIOS emulation of keyboard -- the boot loader seems to see > it fine. But once FreeBSD boots, then it is no longer able to > see the keyboard. >=20 > I tried disabling the atkbd and atkbdc, but it still finds and > attaches kbd0 to atkbd and kbd1 to the USB keyboard. >=20 > Any way out of this situation? Sounds like your BIOS is too smart for it's own good. It emulates enough of the keyboard for atkbd to to probe, but then ukbd finds the keyboard and breaks it. Does the same thing happen if you disable emulation? (I suspect it does). If so, you may need to install by sticking the disk in something else and installing there. One other idea, if you can disable ukbd that may keep the keyboard from being initalized which should keep the emulation work. The real solution to this problem is to implement a keyboard mux which binds all keyboards to the console by default. I'm working on this, but there is not much chance this will make it in to 5.3 at this point. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBZhmNXY6L6fI4GtQRAk8bAKDeiLN6H3tfPeH+hclqNZo6wbG7fACgoYPD RJ34EOoR99ItU6egVjt5y8w= =59ZJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e--
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