From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 20 01:10:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07C781065686 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:10:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE218FC1F for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:10:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.gsoft.com.au (Ur.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p8K1AZlP093932 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:40:40 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1244.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <1DEF7FE4-F2EA-422F-A4E5-911226E96AEF@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:40:35 +0930 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <69A71E62-DD35-40AD-8A3C-E9C90DF7CA25@gsoft.com.au> References: <201109200039.48139.ken@mthelicon.com> <1DEF7FE4-F2EA-422F-A4E5-911226E96AEF@gmail.com> To: Garrett Cooper X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1244.3) X-Spam-Score: -4.391 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Pegasus Mc Cleaft , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB Keyboard doesn't work X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:10:49 -0000 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