From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 7 11:32:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0079516A4CE for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 11:32:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from hak.cnd.mcgill.ca (hak.cnd.mcgill.ca [132.216.11.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98FA043F75 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 11:32:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mat@hak.cnd.mcgill.ca) Received: from hak.cnd.mcgill.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.cnd.mcgill.ca (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hB7JTl15003312; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 14:29:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mat@hak.cnd.mcgill.ca) Received: (from mat@localhost) by hak.cnd.mcgill.ca (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id hB7JTlbE003311; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 14:29:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 14:29:47 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner To: Blaz Zupan Message-ID: <20031207192947.GA98718@cnd.mcgill.ca> References: <20031207180022.B63497@titanic.medinet.si> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031207180022.B63497@titanic.medinet.si> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: I speak for myself, operating in Montreal, CANADA X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on hak.cnd.mcgill.ca cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reward for fixing keyboard support in FreeBSD, apply within X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 19:32:38 -0000 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