Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 07:49:54 -0500 From: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com> To: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing 5.3-BETA7 without PS/2 keyboard Message-ID: <41668CF2.9030307@gamersimpact.com> In-Reply-To: <200410080506.i9856m1e060429@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <200410080506.i9856m1e060429@gw.catspoiler.org>
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Don Lewis wrote: > This sounds a lot like what I ran into with my Athlon XP machine in the > >early days of 5.x. I set up the machine to dual boot FreeBSD 5.x and >RedHat Linux using GRUB to select the OS. If I was using a USB keyboard >and keyboard emulation was off, I couldn't interact with the loader, and >I don't think I could interact with GRUB either. If keyboard emulation >was enabled, FreeBSD stumbled across atkbd and atkbdc and ignored the >USB keyboard once it booted. If I could get in over the network, I >could use kbdcontrol to switch enable access to the USB keyboard. This >was sometimes a problem because neither the BIOS nor FreeBSD saw the fxp >card when the machine was first powered on. Letting the machine boot >part way and hitting the reset button, or logging on and rebooting would >cause fxp0 to appear, though the latter method could not be done >remotely ... > >RedHat 7.3 automagically used the USB keyboard. > >These days I'm using the PS/2 ports via a KVM switch, so I have no idea >if this is still a problem. > > I have somewhat the same problem. Although not too bad, I have a USB KVM which keeps me from interacting with the loader or boot manager, emulation or not. This isn't so bad since I can just move the keyboard to the machine's PS/2 port if I need to. Funny thing is on one of the machines it /used/ to work on 4.x (emulation) but since 5.x it hasn't. Here's a me too looking forward to a keyboard multiplexor. -- Ryan Sommers ryans@gamersimpact.com
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