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Date:      Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:22:44 +0530
From:      Rohit Grover <rgrover1@gmail.com>
To:        utisoft@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Subject:   Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots
Message-ID:  <426bed111002091752g1cf96cd0qf7be5098ab5c9742@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <b79ecaef1002091146t17aa1732me45f5c2899b2cbb2@mail.gmail.com>
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Yes, this is a USB keyboard. If I plug in an external USB keyboard I
get the same behaviour.

In the mean time, I have discovered that if I boot the machine with
MacOSX and then reboot into FreeBSD, it is very likely that FreeBSD
will have no problems with using the keyboard.

I am sure that this behaviour is new in 8.0/stable.
Now that I have this method, I am willing to dig deeper into this
problem and collect more information for debugging. Any ideas on how
to proceed?

regards,

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 8 February 2010 11:47, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:19:06PM +0530, Rohit Grover wrote:
>>> I am using a very recent Freebsd 8.0 STABLE on a Macbook. I updated my
>>> sources and rebuilt a kernel about 3 days ago. I was able to use the
>>> machine fine once or twice after that. But now the keyboard has
>>> stopped working. The boot program is able to use the keyboard, but the
>>> kernel isn't, and I am unable to do anything useful with the machine
>>> from the login screen.
>>>
>>> I had rebuilt the kernel twice with slightly varying settings, so I
>>> don't have a copy of the previously working kernel in
>>> /boot/kernel.old.
>>>
>>> It may not be easy for me to download a ISO image. Can someone please help?
>>
>> Is the keyboard USB?
>>
>
> No Mac since late generation Powerbooks and iBooks has used ADB, so
> yes, the Macbook
> keyboard is USB.
>
> HTH,
>
> Chris
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