Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:25:19 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 and USB keyboard support Message-ID: <20050225182519.GA11966@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <421EE178.4080609@gneto.com> References: <421EE178.4080609@gneto.com>
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--5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 09:27:37AM +0100, Martin Nilsson wrote: > I'm having trouble with a Belkin KVM switch that provides keyboard/mouse= =20 > to each server with one USB cable. On 5.3-R this is completely broken,=20 > on 5.3-STABLE is seems to work OK when booting from a harddrive. When=20 > PXE booting I don't get any keyboard until i disconnect/reconnect the=20 > USB cable, then I get a US keyboard layout not the Swedish that I have=20 > specified in rc.conf. >=20 > I haven't tested if USB keybord works when booting from a recent=20 > snapshot-CD. I'll try to find a separate USB keyboard mouse so I don't=20 > have to stand in front of noisy 1U servers to debug this. >=20 > Can we put this issue on the 5.4 todo so that it gets tested on more=20 > keyb/KVM/motherbord-BIOS combinations than I have here. At this point, I wouldn't expect to see any major improvements in keyboard support for 5.4. I haven't found time to work on it, and it doesn't look like any one else has either (though it's possible I'm wrong, which would be nice :). There has been a lot of general improvement in USB support. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCH22PXY6L6fI4GtQRAl2bAKDHPMPwP565cLPNnletpaRChG0dKQCg5jG0 NGp6Tj7PpCg/3rP2uOsgaXU= =JuxX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5vNYLRcllDrimb99--
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