Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:00:50 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Muthu_T@Dell.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PE2850 + FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 - Keyboard not working Message-ID: <20040930160050.GA19857@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <71F713C5E3CB7F4F9ACCBBB8E9BE318A1E1E23@blrx2kmbgl101.blr.amer.dell.com> References: <71F713C5E3CB7F4F9ACCBBB8E9BE318A1E1E23@blrx2kmbgl101.blr.amer.dell.com>
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--tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 01:40:06AM -0500, Muthu_T@Dell.com wrote: > >From: Brooks Davis [mailto:brooks@one-eyed-alien.net]=20 > >Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 12:17 AM >=20 > >>On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 08:42:32AM -0500, Muthu_T@Dell.com wrote: > >> All, > >>=20 > >> Successfully installed FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 on Dell PE2860. > >> After rebooting in the login prompt the system doesn't accept any=20 > >> keystrokes. > >> I have 1 USB and 1 PS/2 Keyboard. Both keyboards are working (caps=20 > >> on/off, Numlock on/off works), but the characters doesn't comes to > the=20 > >> system console. > >>=20 > >> Attaching the dmesg output. > >>=20 > >> Looks like DELL DRAC (Dell Remote Access Card) card is identified as= =20 > >> Keyboard. > >> See the line: (ukbd0: Dell DRAC4, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1) > >>=20 > >> Any fixes? > > > >From your other message, I think I see what's happening. The > information that the PS/2 keyboard works in=20 > >single user mode was critical. The root problem is that you can have > one and only one console keyboard=20 > >today. I'm working on fixing that, but it's going to take time. For > now we're attemting to work around this >problem by making ukbd0 the > console keyboard in multiuser mode via devd rules. > >In your case this backfires because ukbd0 is your DRAC card not yoru > external USB keyboard. A workaround=20 > >that should work in your case is to boot into single user and comment > out the ukbd related lines in >/etc/devd.conf. Then your PS/2 keyboard > will remain your console keyboard. >=20 >=20 > Commenting out the ukbd0 stuff in /etc/devd.conf does the magic. Now > PS/2 keyboard is working fine! >=20 > Installed the 64bit version of FreeBSD on this m/c. Running without any > issue. Wonderful Job! :-) Good to hear. Hopefully, I'll have a patch to test for multiple keyboard support soon. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBXC2yXY6L6fI4GtQRArZ6AKCCNZXOS3fDY7L5fQIXBYuX943b5wCgqoxH RsyIBskbiozVn0r/oFtj9jk= =6X6G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB--
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