Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 12:46:13 +1000 From: Lachlan O'Dea <odela01@ca.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: USB keyboard riddle Message-ID: <BC6DAD22-7EA3-11D7-BBF0-0003933F208A@ca.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, here's a riddle for you. I've got a machine with an Abit AT7 motherboard. So no legacy ports, just USB and Firewire. The BIOS has two options for USB keyboard support: "BIOS" or "OS". OS means that the operating system must support the keyboard, BIOS means that the BIOS will emulate a standard keyboard. The keyboard only works in FreeBSD if it's set to OS, but Windows XP doesn't seem to care. This is OK, except that I want to dual boot between Windows XP and FreeBSD. Both the FreeBSD boot manager and GRUB rely on BIOS calls to read from the keyboard. So to actually make a selection in the boot manager, I have to set the keyboard support to BIOS, but then I can't use the keyboard once FreeBSD is running. Is it possible to make this work? I couldn't see anything obvious in the ukbd man page. ==== Lachlan O'Dea <lodea@vet.com.au> Computer Associates Pty Ltd Webmaster Vet - Anti-Virus Software http://www.vet.com.au/ Ich bin CA! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQE+tdB9oBZahcUBONoRAnsPAJwN2PP3KpqENKCUIxcEfRENBXQLSwCgnrve RXsbThYteHk1Uj6BPFS66u0= =ISfh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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