Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:04:49 +0000 From: Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PS/2 Keyboard not working /w freebsd Message-ID: <20020315090449.GB363@irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <1016162894.1222.20.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> References: <3C9153FD.8010409@quake.com.au> <1016162894.1222.20.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 02:58:11PM +1130, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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... > > The FreeBSD keyboard probe won't detect these keyboards :( > (I have heaps <sigh>) > > I rolled my own release do work around the problem because the only way > to fix it is to change the atkbdc boot flags from 0x01 to 0x00, but you > can't do that without a keyboard... Grrr.. I have the same problem on my systems, I believe you can change the atkbd flags from the visual config screen if you can get to it. But I build my own release too, it makes it far easier :| (this started happening around v4.2 if I remember right) -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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