Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:40:35 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: Pegasus Mc Cleaft <ken@mthelicon.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB Keyboard doesn't work Message-ID: <69A71E62-DD35-40AD-8A3C-E9C90DF7CA25@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1DEF7FE4-F2EA-422F-A4E5-911226E96AEF@gmail.com> References: <CANYOrgb4suTf0kwA5AS_ZgUJGEwLFECWFgw5H8LwUfmg94tgZA@mail.gmail.com> <201109200039.48139.ken@mthelicon.com> <1DEF7FE4-F2EA-422F-A4E5-911226E96AEF@gmail.com>
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On 20/09/2011, at 10:05, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Sep 19, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: >=20 >> On Monday 19 September 2011 20:20:18 Alisson wrote: >>=20 >>> if the machine doesn't have a PS2 port to use keyboard... and have = only USB >>> port its impossible to use an keyboard on mountroot prompt >>=20 >> Hi Alisson,=20 >>=20 >> I dont know the complete ins and outs of this, but I think it = has a lot=20 >> to do with the BIOS on your machine and/or how it is configured (IE: = PS2=20 >> emulation). >=20 > Many BIOS vendors label this as "legacy keyboard emulation", = etc. You might want to play with the plug-n-play settings as well (but I = doubt that that would help). I think you would need "legacy emulation" for the keyboard to work in = the loader. However that will have no effect at mountroot (and after) as the kernel = has taken over by then. The kern.cam.boot_delay=3D10000 work around helps by giving the USB = stack some time to find devices before mountroot. Unfortunately I believe the USB stack is effectively frozen once the = mountroot prompt appears hence the need for the work around. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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