Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:31:53 +0100 From: Volker <volker@vwsoft.com> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usb keyboard dying at loader prompt Message-ID: <491586B9.2020303@vwsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <4912E462.4090608@icyb.net.ua> References: <4912E462.4090608@icyb.net.ua>
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Andriy, On 12/23/-58 20:59, Andriy Gapon wrote: > I have a quite strange problem. > This is with 7-BETA amd64. Did it work with earlier versions? > All of USB is out of kernel and is loaded via modules. > BIOS has "Legacy USB" enabled. > I have only a USB keyboard, no PS/2 port. Can you check BIOS settings for EHCI handover? If the BIOS does not have handover enabled, it may disable legacy support after a timeout, which is often bad. IMO this is the same with booting off USB drives but every BIOS handles that different. > The keyboard works file in BIOS and for selecting boot device in boot0 > menu. It also works in loader menu. If in the menu I select to go to > loader prompt then it works for about 5 seconds and then "dies" - no > reaction to key presses, no led change, nothing. > I haven't actually verified if the keyboard would still work if I stayed > in loader menu for longer than ~10 seconds. > > This doesn't happen if USB is built into kernel. That sound strange. I have no idea why that might work (or I'm totally wrong with my handover theory). > Weird... Yes, sounds like or it's probably easily explainable ;) Volker
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