From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 26 18:27:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5031E16A4B3 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sizone.org (mortar.sizone.org [65.126.154.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA88443FF7 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:27:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by sizone.org (Postfix, from userid 66) id 298ED301B7; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 21:27:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id 872201D1DC2; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:52:59 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16244.53594.942762.784390@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:52:58 -0400 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under 21.4 (patch 12) "Portable Code" XEmacs Lucid Subject: USB keyboard thoughts. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 01:27:41 -0000 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================