From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 12:49:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D43A16A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 12:49:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from node15.coopprint.com (node15.cooperativeprinting.com [208.4.77.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8921443D2D for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 12:49:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryans@gamersimpact.com) Received: (qmail 38283 invoked by uid 0); 8 Oct 2004 12:49:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (63.231.165.205) by node15.coopprint.com with SMTP; 8 Oct 2004 12:49:08 -0000 Message-ID: <41668CF2.9030307@gamersimpact.com> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 07:49:54 -0500 From: Ryan Sommers User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Don Lewis References: <200410080506.i9856m1e060429@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <200410080506.i9856m1e060429@gw.catspoiler.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing 5.3-BETA7 without PS/2 keyboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:49:53 -0000 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