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Date:      Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:45:08 -0400
From:      Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net>
To:        "Kyle Mobley" <kmobley@speakeasy.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB Keyboard on a KVM switch w/ Supermicro board
Message-ID:  <20020815164508.2d909073.yid@softhome.net>
In-Reply-To: <000001c23f32$ae0541d0$25d1adcf@bigguy>
References:  <000001c23f32$ae0541d0$25d1adcf@bigguy>

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On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:24:01 -0700
"Kyle Mobley" <kmobley@speakeasy.net> wrote:

> new server and my workstation. I have had problems with the USB
> keyboard working on my workstation and the work around was turning off
> USB legacy support in the bios. In the bios of this super micro board

This is the way I handle things with my own USB keyboard. However, I
can't use a dual-boot loader or interrupt the boot-up countdown (I want
to do that to be able to load a different kernel or boot single user in
an emergency) if I do this. Can you or someone else tell me how to fix
that?

> ps2 keyboard I can go in and type /usr/sbin/kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1
> </dev/ttyv0>/dev/null , then it starts working again. However once I

I don't know if this will help with your specific problem, but have you
tried putting this command in a boot script? (/etc/rc.local?)

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