Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:46:43 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, David Aquilina <dwaquilina@gmail.com> Cc: alfred@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing on AMD64 without PS/2 keyboard Message-ID: <200409101646.43669.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <add80778040910131468f26ea@mail.gmail.com> References: <add80778040910131468f26ea@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 10 September 2004 04:14 pm, David Aquilina wrote: > Greetings all, > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE and/or the latest 5.3-BETA > on an AMD64 box I have (both releases exhibit the same behavior). I am > running into a fairly serious problem, however - the system does not > have any PS/2 ports, only USB. > > FreeBSD sees a phantom keyboard on kbd0 when the USB keyboard is > plugged in, and the real keyboard on kbd1. Sysinstall only uses kbd0, > however. To add insult, the keyboard works just fine in the loader, > however as soon as the kernel starts loading the keyboard is ignored. > > I've tried mucking with the BIOS's USB Legacy Keyboard option, but it > doesn't alter FreeBSD's behavior any. > > I've also tried using device hints to disable atkbd.0 and atkbdc.0, > however they also seem to be ignored. Add a hint to set the flags on atkbd.0 to "1" so it tries to probe the keyboard instead of assuming it is present. I.e. set hint.atkbd.0.flags="1" -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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