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Date:      Sat, 20 Jul 2002 10:14:50 +0800
From:      Katinka Mills <katinka@magestower.com>
To:        "Kyle Mobley" <kyle@yowser.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: USB Keyboard Problems
Message-ID:  <200207201014.50351.katinka@magestower.com>
In-Reply-To: <000101c22f71$625d8060$07d1adcf@hostileintent.com>
References:  <000101c22f71$625d8060$07d1adcf@hostileintent.com>

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On Sat, 20 Jul 2002 06:12, Kyle Mobley wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
>
>
> I have an interesting problem, which I have never had before. I
> installed 4.6-release and the usb keyboard didn't work. It works in the
> bios and works with the boot loader to hit enter for boot, but it
> doesn't work in the actual operating system. It is detected just fine at
> boot time and is assigned device ukbd0. It used to work fine with my
> older versions of fbsd including 4.5. I have usbd running at startup
> i.e. usbd_enable="YES"  in /etc/rc.conf. I even tried to HUP usbd and
> that didn't work. I have tried to unplug and plug it back in. It comes
> up saying it detects it but no key works. Also I can light on/off the
> scroll lock and num lock buttons on the keyboard by pressing the buttons
> but still nothing either way.
>
>
>
> Has anyone had a similar problem at all? I can't believe the keyboard is
> bad because it works just great in the BIOS and in other operating
> systems. BTW, the keyboard is a Microsoft internet keyboard pro or
> whatever they call the damn thing.

Hi Kyle,

I had to put a string in my rc.i386 file :
kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1 </dev/ttyv0> /dev/null

I do not have keyboard access from once freebsd starts to boot IE after 
pressing "F1" in the boot manager. I get it back once rc.i386 has been run 
:o)

Hope this helps,

Kat.

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