From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 25 19:38:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F63616A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 19:38:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D2A443D1D for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 19:38:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 2302 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2004 19:30:11 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 25 Jun 2004 19:30:08 -0000 Received: from 10.50.41.233 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5PJTqhc081692; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:29:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:30:53 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <1087998930.775.32.camel@reaper1.reaperville.com> <200406241347.05092.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <1088141546.720.13.camel@reaper1.reaperville.com> In-Reply-To: <1088141546.720.13.camel@reaper1.reaperville.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406251530.53292.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: Chris Miller Subject: Re: USB mouse and keyboard problems with 5.2.1-Release X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 19:38:55 -0000 On Friday 25 June 2004 01:32 am, Chris Miller wrote: > On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 11:47, John Baldwin wrote: > > Hmm, my USB mice all work fine when plugged, unplugged so I'm not sure > > what you are running into there. As far as keyboards, you currently have > > to tell FreeBSD to use the USB keyboard via 'kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1' > > using the PS/2 keyboard (yes, this is rather lame, hopefully someday the > > keyboard driver will be fixed to mux the inputs from all the physical > > keyboards) > > When I try that command I get the following: > # kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1 > kbd1 > ukbd0, type:generic (0) > kbdcontrol: unable to set keyboard: Inappropriate ioctl for device You need to be on an actual screen console (like ttyv0) to do this, you can't do it over ssh unless you do something like: kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1 /dev/ttyv0 > So I'm not exactly sure what to do about it. The keyboard is an > annoyance but not the end of the world. But the mouse and track pad are > making me seriously think about going back to Linux with this machine. Have you tried adding the psm.0 hints from sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints to your /boot/device.hints file? Also, does psm0 show up if you boot with ACPI disabled? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org