Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:36:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Muller <jmull@i.cz> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: usb keyboard Message-ID: <20070717125246.T981@orm.i.cz>
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Synopsis: During initial installation of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386, OS does not recognize the USB keyboard after third stage boot. Environment: installing rel. 6.2 from CD, HW is Dell OptiPlex 745 SF with USB connected keyboard and mouse Description: when installing from CD, keyboard is recognized during initial boot phases, which allows escape to loader prompt from beastie menu and various interactions from loader prompt. However, when boot continues to sysinstall (the first program is country selection), keyboard is no longer effective. the loader shows usual variables, such as hint.atkbd.0.at=atkbdc hint.atkbd.0.irq=1 hint.atkbdc.0.at=isa hint.atkbdc.0.port=0x060 when run without any changes, loader finds various usb and uhub deviecs, and during hw scan states also kbd0 at atkbd0 and then runs sysinstall (inoperative since keyboard is not recognized) when these four hints are unset at loader prompt, the statements such as kbd0 at atkbd0 (and several other ones) are not there any more. Nevertheless, the country selection program still does not accept any keyboard input. The only related info in FAQ was a statement "FreeBSD supports USB keyboards out-of-the-box", which turned out not to be the case here :-( The FAQ answer then proceeds to describe how to enable USB keyboard support using kbdcontrol command, presumably on an already installed system ... Could you help me with this problem? regards Jan Muller
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