From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 10 20:47:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6BB116A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:47:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail2.speakeasy.net (mail2.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B994843D4C for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:47:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 10462 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2004 20:47:20 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 10 Sep 2004 20:47:20 -0000 Received: from [10.50.40.210] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8AKlEF1017736; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:47:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, David Aquilina Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:46:43 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409101646.43669.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: alfred@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing on AMD64 without PS/2 keyboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:47:21 -0000 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org