Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 14:29:47 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> To: Blaz Zupan <blaz@si.FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reward for fixing keyboard support in FreeBSD, apply within Message-ID: <20031207192947.GA98718@cnd.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: <20031207180022.B63497@titanic.medinet.si> References: <20031207180022.B63497@titanic.medinet.si>
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Hello Blaz, On Dec 07, Blaz Zupan wrote: > 1. No FreeBSD version boots from CD on this box. Tried with 4.x and 5.x. > Both complain that they can't find their own boot device and don't know how to > load the kernel. There are some signs that booting from any USB connected > CDROM on any hardware is broken. I'm curious as to the output of lsdev from the loader. Though I doubt I can help you. > 2. The more troubling problem is that upon bootup the keyboard does not work. > The problem is that there are actually two USB keyboards. The first one is > apparently some dummy device connected to the KVM while the second is the > working keyboard. Logging in through the network and running "kbdcontrol -k > /dev/kbd2" activates the keyboard. The problem is that only a single keyboard > can be active at any time in FreeBSD and on boot the first detected keyboard > becomes active. As the first USB keyboard on the Bladecenter is not actually > connected anywhere, the keyboard is basically dead as soon as the FreeBSD > kernel takes over. The box does not have any serial ports, so a serial console > is out of the question. You could stick a kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd2 in rc.local or something similiar. Or you could try (warning, wild guess) the following in the boot loader set hint.sc.2.at=isa set hint.sc.2.flags=0x200 hth, --Mat -- We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege. - Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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