From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 10 22:20:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E01916A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 22:20:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4120443D2D for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 22:20:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8AMKEmO037869 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 22:20:14 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i8AMKEXJ037867; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 22:20:14 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 22:20:14 GMT Message-Id: <200409102220.i8AMKEXJ037867@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Ara Avvali Subject: Re: kern/71443: [usb] usb keyboard not detected on 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Ara Avvali List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 22:20:14 -0000 The following reply was made to PR kern/71443; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ara Avvali To: Brooks Davis , freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: kern/71443: [usb] usb keyboard not detected on 5.3 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:10:20 -0400 thank you for help. I gladly try it and let you know :-D Brooks Davis wrote: >The problem here is that we now attache to the PS/2 keyboard even if >there isn't one actually connected. This means we can plug PS/2 >keyboards into servers after boot, but means that USB keyboards don't >work. Once you're in multi-user mode, we have a devd.conf entry that >causes the system to use the USB keyboard when it is plugged in, but >that doesn't help with sysinstall. I've got a patch that should cause >the CDs to work with USB keyboards by not attaching the atkbd device if >there is no PS/2 keyboard. There's a test ISO at: > >http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/6.0-CURRENT-i386-bootonly.iso.bz2 > >If you could try it out and report back that would be helpful. It >doesn't contain install files because I built it at home where I'm stuck >behind a 144k link. > >-- Brooks > > > >