Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:02:55 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Stefan Cars <stefan@snowfall.se> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard not working Dell PE 1850 and DRAC cards.. Message-ID: <20041222200255.GB15881@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <41C9CFD7.4020303@snowfall.se> References: <41C9CFD7.4020303@snowfall.se>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:49:43PM +0100, Stefan Cars wrote: > Hi! > > I have some trouble using keyboards (both PS/2 and/or USB) on our 15 new > PE 1850's. The installation goes fine (the PS/2 works, USB does not) and > single user works OK (with PS/2), but normal boot does not work, it > seems it attaches the keyboard to the DRAC cards (it identifies itself > as ukbd0). I found a post regarding this > (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-September/038879.html). > > My question is then, is there anyway I can make this work so I can use a > regular keyboard (PS/2 or USB) and the DRAC, maybe by fixing so when i > attach a USB it disconnectes the DRAC and attaches the USB ?. Disable > the keyboard for the DRAC is something I don't want to do since the > reason we bought DRACS to them is the possibility to control them > remote, I have some pressure of people wanting us to run RedHat on them > and I don't want to be forced to do that becuase of this stupid little > thing. The correct behavior is currently unobtainable, but you may be able to get a sufficent approximation working. At the moment, you'll only be able to use the PS/2 keyboard in single user mode because syscons is going to always pick it and you can't switch unless you have a keyboard or are in multi-user mode. However, in multiuser you can change devd.conf to have a different behavior. It would be fairly simple to make /dev/kbd1 the primary keyboard and have the appearence of ukbd1 cause /dev/kdb2 to become and primary. Hopefully we'll have a real solution soon, but I haven't found the time to work on it as much as I'd like. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBydLuXY6L6fI4GtQRAorRAKDQ7h8BxUnZG1KgV6+DaEqzufgZGwCg4txs A2nCaozvEClEcCmxoWir07Y= =P9UU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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