From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 19 16:51:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nycsmtp3out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp3out.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3A3337B41B for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:51:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scott1.nyc.rr.com (24-168-24-239.nyc.rr.com [24.168.24.239]) by nycsmtp3out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.1/Road Runner SMTP Server 1.0) with ESMTP id g3JNptvO020961; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 19:51:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020419194910.00c46908@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> X-Sender: scottro@pop-server.nyc.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 19:51:29 -0400 To: "Jose Antonio R." , From: Scott Subject: Re: Keyboard Flags. In-Reply-To: <008801c1e7fc$6605de40$02001aac@pionino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:46 2002/04/20 +0200, Jose Antonio R. wrote: >Hello everybody here :) > >Well, I am a very very newbie to freebsd and I have started with it with a >bit of but luck ;). > >The problem that I am having is that when I start the installation from the >installation cd, it seems that the keyboard is not properly initialized, as >I can read something saying that atkbd0 flags 0x01 returned 6 or something >similar (I can read it well because it dissapears quickly). > >I have searched througth the news and people says that I must to put in the >kernel config file in the atkbd0 section the flags to 0x02, but how I can= do >it?. > >Remember that I am installing freebsd for the first time and the keyboard= is >dead when the sysinstall screen appears. Could I download a custom boot >floppy with this flag changed?. > >Thanks in advance. > >(I don=B4t know if is relevant but I am using an asus a7v with a k7-1300, I don't know enough to say if it's relevant or not. However, my first=20 install (on a KVM switch with an ASUS A7A266 ) had the same problem--a=20 lockup. Solved it by simply popping in another keyboard, a cheaper one,=20 actually. Do you have another keyboard with which you can try it? Also if you are doing it through a KVM, try attaching the keyboard=20 directly to the box, rather than through the KVM (though I suspect if you=20 were using a KVM, you would have mentioned it) :) HTH Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message