Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:52:58 -0400 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: USB keyboard thoughts. Message-ID: <16244.53594.942762.784390@canoe.dclg.ca>
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I acquired my first motherboard that does not have ps/2 keyboard and mouse connectors on it this week. It's a funny thing ... because a keyboard connector seems to be all it doesn't have. It has 6 ide channels, digital audio, firewire and 6 USB ports. Anyways, usb keyboards don't work that smoothly. If the keyboard emulation is set to 'BIOS' ... you can do things like edit the RAID config (onboard) or a PCI card BIOS config... but the keyboard won't show up at all to FreeBSD. With the keyboard compatibility set to 'OS' ... FreeBSD sees and uses the keyboard. Two caveat's, however. The boot loader is inaccessible in this mode and if the keyboard is not plugged in on boot, it cannot be plugged in later. The system recognises ukbd0 when it's plugged in, but it doesn't attach to the console. I fear that we'll see more motherboards like this. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================
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