Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 04:50:28 GMT From: Ara Avvali <Ara@Avvali.COM> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/71443: [usb] usb keyboard not detected on 5.3, working Message-ID: <200409110450.i8B4oS5e083167@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/71443; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ara Avvali <Ara@Avvali.COM> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: kern/71443: [usb] usb keyboard not detected on 5.3, working Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:44:38 -0400 hello this one worked perfectly fine. Thank you. Let me know if I can help. By the way motherboard is an ASUS A7v333 if it helps 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 > >
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