From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 15 1: 5:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nelly.internal.irrelevant.org (irrelevant.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BFA037B417 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:05:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from simond by nelly.internal.irrelevant.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16lndp-00012I-00; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:04:49 +0000 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:04:49 +0000 From: Simon Dick To: Daniel O'Connor Cc: Kal Torak , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: PS/2 Keyboard not working /w freebsd Message-ID: <20020315090449.GB363@irrelevant.org> References: <3C9153FD.8010409@quake.com.au> <1016162894.1222.20.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1016162894.1222.20.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 02:58:11PM +1130, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 13:23, Kal Torak wrote: > > They all have these Diamond Touch keyboards, and upon loading > > a kernel the keyboard doesnt work.. I cant actualy install on > > these systems using the keyboards!! The kernel config screen > > doesnt come up ether, it just jumps to sysinstall with a dead > > keyboard... > > The FreeBSD keyboard probe won't detect these keyboards :( > (I have heaps ) > > I rolled my own release do work around the problem because the only way > to fix it is to change the atkbdc boot flags from 0x01 to 0x00, but you > can't do that without a keyboard... Grrr.. I have the same problem on my systems, I believe you can change the atkbd flags from the visual config screen if you can get to it. But I build my own release too, it makes it far easier :| (this started happening around v4.2 if I remember right) -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message