From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 03:59:54 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9201065670 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 03:59:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from vps.hungerhost.com (vps.hungerhost.com [216.38.53.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F4F08FC08 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 03:59:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [209.249.190.124] (helo=punk.neville-neil.com.neville-neil.com) by vps.hungerhost.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QTyP7-0002eR-BT; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:41:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:41:39 -0400 Message-ID: <86wrgxwswc.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> From: gnn@freebsd.org To: Eivind Eklund In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL/10.8 Emacs/23.3 (amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - vps.hungerhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - neville-neil.com Cc: d@delphij.net, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard hang on Lenovo T520 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:59:54 -0000 At Fri, 3 Jun 2011 23:18:39 -0700, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > Hi! > > I've just tried to install 8.2 amd64 on a newly bought Lenovo T520. This > hangs during keyboard probe with the last output on a verbose boot being > > kbdc: RESET_KBD return code:00fa > kbdc: RESET_KBD status:00aa > > This looks like the same symptoms as in > http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/svn-rev-197392-hangs-during-boot-td3926276.html, > where Xin Li had a patch to revert the use of x86bios for atkbd. > > Does this kind of thing still make sense (ie, should I try to build a new > install medium with that patch applied)? > > If so, is there something I can do to help make this work automatically? > (I'm out of touch and haven't done much with FreeBSD for a fair number of > years, so I don't know what's going on development-wise.) You could also do what I originally did. Install using a USB keyboard, build a new kernel with the patch, and go from there. Just make sure to turn off the AT (internal) keyboard on boot. Best, George