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Date:      15 Mar 2002 14:56:32 +1130
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: PS/2 Keyboard not working /w freebsd
Message-ID:  <1016162795.1222.17.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3C9153FD.8010409@quake.com.au>
References:  <3C9153FD.8010409@quake.com.au>

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On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 13:23, Kal Torak wrote:
> They all have these Diamond Touch keyboards, and upon loading
> a kernel the keyboard doesnt work.. I cant actualy install on
> these systems using the keyboards!! The kernel config screen
> doesnt come up ether, it just jumps to sysinstall with a dead
> keyboard...

> Now I dont know what mother board is in these systems, and it
> could be just these keyboards with that controler, but I found
> another band keyboard and it worked just fine..
> 
> Anyway the relevent messages from the kernel are:
> 
> atkbdc0 <Keyboard Controller(i8024)>: at port 0x60,0x64 on ISA0
> atkbd0 <AT Keyboard>: Flags 0x1 IRQ 1 on atkbdc0
> device_probe_and_attatch: atkbd0 attatch returned 6
> 
> During the probe the lights on the keyboard flash and then it
> goes dead, sort of like maybe the probe killed it...
> 
> The keyboards are all:
> 
> Diamond Touch Keyboards (yes the s on the end is part of its name)
> Model No: 6511-PA
> Extension No: 41/MIT
> 
> Are these not supported or something? I would like to know whats
> going on here because it seems very strange that a keyboard should
> fail to work right??
> 
> Thanks anyway!
> 
> 
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