From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 11 20:03:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 04EE816A4DF for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:03:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9127943D4C for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:03:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6BK3tT9067315; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:03:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.6/8.13.1/Submit) id k6BK3rTN067314; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:03:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:03:53 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20060711200353.GB67098@dragon.NUXI.org> Mail-Followup-To: obrien@freebsd.org, Scott Long , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20060710212815.GA46336@dragon.NUXI.org> <44B2CBAA.2020407@samsco.org> <20060711181507.GA64759@dragon.NUXI.org> <44B3F729.1070009@samsco.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44B3F729.1070009@samsco.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:03:57 -0000 On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:08:25PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:50:34PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > > > >>David O'Brien wrote: > >> > >>>For months now PS/2 keyboard support has been broken during boot with the > >>>GENERIC kernel. > >>> > >>>If one has an error in /etc/fstab such that / cannot be mounted, the > >>>kernel prompts with > >>> > >>> Manual root filesystems specification: > >>> [examples listed] > >>> mountroot> > >>> > >>>However one cannot respond to the prompt as keyboard input is ignored. > >>>This seems to be a casualty of kbdmux(4) support being committed back in > >>>February. Is anyone working on fixing this? > >> > >>Yours is definitely the exception case. Does setting the keyboard probe > >>hint hack make a difference? > > > >I reproduced it on two different machines, one with Pheonix BIOS, on with > >AMIBIOS, and two different keyboards. So I don't think it is specific to > >my environment. Have you been at the "mountroot>" prompt lately and had > >a PS/2 keyboard to work? > > Did you try the setting I suggested, or the patch that John refered to? Not yet. The testing I mention above was done before submitting the problem to freebsd-current. I wanted to make sure it was nothing very specific to my environment (or fat fingers). -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is top-posting (putting a reply at the top of the message) frowned upon?