Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:30:53 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Cc: Chris Miller <chrislist@bariatricsupportcenter.com> Subject: Re: USB mouse and keyboard problems with 5.2.1-Release Message-ID: <200406251530.53292.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1088141546.720.13.camel@reaper1.reaperville.com> References: <1087998930.775.32.camel@reaper1.reaperville.com> <200406241347.05092.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <1088141546.720.13.camel@reaper1.reaperville.com>
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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 >/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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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