Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:04:44 +0100 From: Stefan Cars <stefan@snowfall.se> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard not working Dell PE 1850 and DRAC cards.. Message-ID: <41C9D35C.1090408@snowfall.se> In-Reply-To: <20041222200255.GB15881@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <41C9CFD7.4020303@snowfall.se> <20041222200255.GB15881@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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Hi! Thanks for the info, where can I find more information on how to do that ? Could you provide an example of how the devd.conf (or what files needed to be changed) would look ? Kind Regards, Stefan Cars Brooks Davis wrote: > 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 >
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