Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:30:10 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> To: Gary Schenk <gwschenk@socal.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing to a PS/2 keyboard after install Message-ID: <20030610003010.GA31743@tuatara.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <200306091706.36333.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> References: <Sea1-F74udzxxfYXFrw000251e5@hotmail.com> <200306091706.36333.gwschenk@socal.rr.com>
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On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 05:06:36PM -0700, Gary Schenk wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion, but that did not work. After rebooting not > only did I not have a PS/2 keyboard, I no longer could plug in the USB > keyboard. > > This is very perplexing. There must be a way to install a new keyboard. > Reinstalling the OS is the Microsoft way, and I want to avoid that. > > Gary As you've guessed already, you shouldn't have needed to do anything special to get a PS/2 keyboard working. A few things to try: - Is the keyboard & port hardware actually OK? Make sure you can at least use it to get into the machine's BIOS setup screens. Note that PS/2 keyboards shouldn't be hot-plugged -- you can easily kill the port doing that. Try another keyboard if possible. - Boot a GENERIC kernel. It's got everything you need for both PS/2 and USB keyboards. There should be no harm in having them both enabled. - Post your /etc/rc.conf, /var/run/dmesg.boot and anything that looks relevant from /var/log/messages. There may be a clue in there as to why the keyboard isn't working. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon
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