Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 00:50:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Rajappa Iyer" <rsi@panix.com> To: "Brooks Davis" <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing 5.3-BETA7 without PS/2 keyboard Message-ID: <1777.69.109.125.98.1097211034.squirrel@69.109.125.98> In-Reply-To: <20041008043733.GA9549@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <1383.69.109.125.98.1097208742.squirrel@69.109.125.98> <20041008043733.GA9549@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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> 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.
That doesn't work either and I wouldn't have expected it to work either
since FreeBSD does not use the BIOS once it boots.
Disabling BIOS emulation does not work either. FreeBSD *still* probes
and finds atkdbc0.
Sounds like I'm SOL.
Thanks,
Rajappa
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