From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 9 17:30:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C4C437B401 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0812C43FBD for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:30:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from fishballoon.org ([81.104.195.199]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com ESMTP <20030610003053.QTNT20145.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@fishballoon.org>; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:30:53 +0100 Received: from tuatara.fishballoon.org (tuatara [192.168.1.6]) by fishballoon.org (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h5A0UB4o062447; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:30:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott@tuatara.fishballoon.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.fishballoon.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h5A0UAwO052165; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:30:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:30:10 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: Gary Schenk Message-ID: <20030610003010.GA31743@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <200306091706.36333.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200306091706.36333.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing to a PS/2 keyboard after install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 00:30:56 -0000 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