From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 4 22:17:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4768937B401 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 22:17:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from angmar.mel.vet.com.au (angmar.mel.vet.com.au [203.39.245.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58A9E43FAF for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 22:17:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from odela01@ca.com) Received: from nargothrond.ca.com (nargothrond.ca.com [155.35.178.10]) by angmar.mel.vet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C38B14F303 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 15:17:25 +1000 (EST) Received: from ca.com ([155.35.178.101]) by nargothrond.ca.com with esmtp; Mon, 05 May 2003 15:17:24 +1000 Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 15:17:18 +1000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: Lachlan O'Dea To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-Id: X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 0.5.4 (v22 Jaguar) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Subject: Re: USB keyboard riddle X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 05:17:27 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Typical, I post a question then figure it out just a few minutes later. FreeBSD will work with BIOS keyboard emulation enabled if I explicitly disable the atkbd device. I'm running 5.0, so I did this by adding: hint.atkbd.0.disable="1" to /boot/device.hints. On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 12:46 Australia/Melbourne, Lachlan O'Dea wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, here's a riddle for you. > > I've got a machine with an Abit AT7 motherboard. So no legacy ports, > just USB and Firewire. The BIOS has two options for USB keyboard > support: "BIOS" or "OS". OS means that the operating system must > support the keyboard, BIOS means that the BIOS will emulate a standard > keyboard. The keyboard only works in FreeBSD if it's set to OS, but > Windows XP doesn't seem to care. > > This is OK, except that I want to dual boot between Windows XP and > FreeBSD. Both the FreeBSD boot manager and GRUB rely on BIOS calls to > read from the keyboard. So to actually make a selection in the boot > manager, I have to set the keyboard support to BIOS, but then I can't > use the keyboard once FreeBSD is running. > > Is it possible to make this work? I couldn't see anything obvious in > the ukbd man page. > > ==== > Lachlan O'Dea Computer Associates Pty Ltd > Webmaster Vet - Anti-Virus Software > http://www.vet.com.au/ Ich bin CA! > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQE+tdB9oBZahcUBONoRAnsPAJwN2PP3KpqENKCUIxcEfRENBXQLSwCgnrve > RXsbThYteHk1Uj6BPFS66u0= > =ISfh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ==== Lachlan O'Dea Computer Associates Pty Ltd Webmaster Vet - Anti-Virus Software http://www.vet.com.au/ Ich bin CA! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQE+tfPjoBZahcUBONoRAkG6AKDwje4zTDBX/XZe8Ms8bzGdYs5NZACfX0/i Yk/G66PkPoaI5fCnwrwSRKc= =07CV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----