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Date:      Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:04:44 +0100
From:      Stefan Cars <stefan@snowfall.se>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Keyboard not working Dell PE 1850 and DRAC cards..
Message-ID:  <41C9D35C.1090408@snowfall.se>
In-Reply-To: <20041222200255.GB15881@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
References:  <41C9CFD7.4020303@snowfall.se> <20041222200255.GB15881@odin.ac.hmc.edu>

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Hi!

Thanks for the info, where can I find more information on how to do that 
? Could you provide an example of how the devd.conf (or what files 
needed to be changed) would look ?

Kind Regards,
Stefan Cars


Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:49:43PM +0100, Stefan Cars wrote:
> 
>>Hi!
>>
>>I have some trouble using keyboards (both PS/2 and/or USB) on our 15 new 
>>PE 1850's. The installation goes fine (the PS/2 works, USB does not) and 
>>single user works OK (with PS/2), but normal boot does not work, it 
>>seems it attaches the keyboard to the DRAC cards (it identifies itself 
>>as ukbd0). I found a post regarding this 
>>(http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-September/038879.html). 
>>
>>My question is then, is there anyway I can make this work so I can use a 
>>regular keyboard (PS/2 or USB) and the DRAC, maybe by fixing so when i 
>>attach a USB it disconnectes the DRAC and attaches the USB ?. Disable 
>>the keyboard for the DRAC is something I don't want to do since the 
>>reason we bought DRACS to them is the possibility to control them 
>>remote, I have some pressure of people wanting us to run RedHat on them 
>>and I don't want to be forced to do that becuase of this stupid little 
>>thing.
> 
> 
> The correct behavior is currently unobtainable, but you may be able to
> get a sufficent approximation working.  At the moment, you'll only be
> able to use the PS/2 keyboard in single user mode because syscons is
> going to always pick it and you can't switch unless you have a keyboard
> or are in multi-user mode.  However, in multiuser you can change
> devd.conf to have a different behavior.  It would be fairly simple to
> make /dev/kbd1 the primary keyboard and have the appearence of ukbd1
> cause /dev/kdb2 to become and primary.
> 
> Hopefully we'll have a real solution soon, but I haven't found the time
> to work on it as much as I'd like.
> 
> -- Brooks
> 



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