Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:34:29 -0700 From: Gary Schenk <gwschenk@socal.rr.com> To: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing to a PS/2 keyboard after install Message-ID: <200306121734.30099.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20030611093037.GA7213@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <Sea1-F74udzxxfYXFrw000251e5@hotmail.com> <200306101730.12411.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> <20030611093037.GA7213@tuatara.fishballoon.org>
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On Wednesday 11 June 2003 02:30 am, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > Here is dmesg after booting without UserConfig: > > > > Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. > > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, > > 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights > > reserved. FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #6: Mon Jun 9 16:47:15 PDT 2003 > > root@fuzz.socal.rr.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/FUZZ > > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > > CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (598.48-MHz 686-class > > CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x681 Stepping = 1 > > > > Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE, > >MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> real memory = 134205440 (131060K > > bytes) > > config> di atkbd0 > > config> di sn0 > > config> di lnc0 > > config> di ie0 > > config> di fe0 > > config> di cs0 > > config> q > > OK, I'm still a little confused as to exactly how we got here, but I > think I'm starting to see what's going on :-) That 'di atkbd0' line > above is, erm, disabling the keyboard driver, so you can see below > that the keyboard controller is detected but no keyboard is actually > being configured: > > [...snippage...] > > > atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 > > The 'di atkbd0' was probably added through UserConfig. You should be > able to remove it with 'en atkbd0' in UserConfig or by just deleting > the 'di atkbd0' line from /boot/kernel.conf. > > What happens when you make this change? I'd expect the keyboard to > start working, but I'm not sure there isn't something else strange > going on here. That worked! Obviously I am not understanding how UserConfig works. I'll work on that. > Source upgrades (with cvsup) are not as bad as you'd expect, although > the first one is pretty scary :-) It's very cool seeing your whole > system rebuild itself from source. The handbook covers the whole > process in great detail. > > 5.1 is a great improvement on 5.0, but it'll still have a few rough > edges. I'd be cautious running it on my only machine, or one I > couldn't live without if something horrible did happen. > > Cheers, > > Scott Thanks for your help. It is much appreciated. I'm not sure I would have figured this one out on my own. So much to learn. And I'll think more about going with 5.1. Garyhome | help
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