Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 08:30:16 +0000 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, "Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Logitech unifying receivers and keyboard ordering (ukbd0/1) Message-ID: <52CBBB18.80302@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <20140106203112.d5fbc6a7.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20140106192049.1e62a580@dijkstra.cruwe.de> <20140106203112.d5fbc6a7.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 06/01/2014 19:31, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 19:20:49 +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: >> I am sorry, I know that my question has been addressed quite recently, >> but I cannot find the post, I do not know why. >> >> I have a Logitech mouse with unifying Bluetooth receiver and a >> keyboard attached by USB "wire". When I boot with both devices >> attached, the non-existent keyboard unifying Bluetooth attached >> keyboard becomes ukbd0 and the "wired" ukbd1. Accordingly, my real >> keyboard does not work on either syscons as well as X11 and I cannot >> type on the non-existent. >> >> What I would like to have the "wired2 and "real" keyboard to attach to >> ukbd0 and if that must be the non-existent to ukbd1. What I do now is >> to unplug the Bluetooth dongle when booting to ensure that ordering. I >> usually forget that on first boot, though, ensuring my first rush of >> wild swearing each morning. > > Depending on your kernel konfiguration, there may be two options: > > First, the kbdmux component should enable all detected keyboards > to work "in parallel", so switching from one to another is not > needed, especially if one of them doesn't even exist. A typical > situation is when an AT keyboard (PS/2 keyboard connector) and > a USB keyboard (USB connector) are present. > > Then, there's the kbdcontrol program that allows switching key- > boards. This program can be called by devd to perform the required > action when the USB keyboard is present (or not present). As I > don't own any BT hardware, I can't be more specific on how this > kind of keyboard will be represented to the OS, sorry. > > See "man kbdmux" and "man kbdcontrol" for details. > > Also take a look at /etc/rc.d/syscons. I see that it responds to an rc.conf variable "keyboard".
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