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Date:      Sat, 25 Dec 2004 15:00:49 +0100
From:      Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
To:        Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with switch view and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20041225140049.GA92496@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <41cd3895.1d4837f8.0a2b.3003@smtp.gmail.com>
References:  <001e01c4e761$d599b1c0$8b0aa8c0@pichler> <41cd3895.1d4837f8.0a2b.3003@smtp.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 03:23:15PM +0530, Subhro typed:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ricardo Pichler
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 19:05
> > To: questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Problems with switch view and FreeBSD
> 
> <snip>
> > I've various FreeBSD box running, they are working without keyboard and
> > when
> > I try connect the keyboard, the system don't respond but the system be
> > working. 
> <snip>
> 
> The reason why it is not working for you is, the BIOS of your mother board
> does not enable the Keyboard PS2 port till it "sees" the keyboard. Turn off
> the autodetection of keyboard from the BIOs and it will work fine.

Wrong. He has to edit /boot/device.hints and replace

hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1"

by

hint.atkbd.0.flags="0"

Ruben



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