Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 22:09:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: "Lachlan O'Dea" <odela01@ca.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB keyboard riddle Message-ID: <20030504220051.Q40296@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> In-Reply-To: <BC6DAD22-7EA3-11D7-BBF0-0003933F208A@ca.com> References: <BC6DAD22-7EA3-11D7-BBF0-0003933F208A@ca.com>
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On Mon, 5 May 2003, Lachlan O'Dea wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, here's a riddle for you. > > I've got a machine with an Abit AT7 motherboard. So no legacy ports, > just USB and Firewire. The BIOS has two options for USB keyboard > support: "BIOS" or "OS". OS means that the operating system must > support the keyboard, BIOS means that the BIOS will emulate a standard > keyboard. The keyboard only works in FreeBSD if it's set to OS, but > Windows XP doesn't seem to care. > > This is OK, except that I want to dual boot between Windows XP and > FreeBSD. Both the FreeBSD boot manager and GRUB rely on BIOS calls to > read from the keyboard. So to actually make a selection in the boot > manager, I have to set the keyboard support to BIOS, but then I can't > use the keyboard once FreeBSD is running. > > Is it possible to make this work? I couldn't see anything obvious in > the ukbd man page. Perhaps you have to change your boot selector. I have seen linux's LILO working commanded by the mouse. why don't you try: http://gag.sourceforge.net/ ? > > ==== > Lachlan O'Dea <lodea@vet.com.au> Computer Associates Pty Ltd > Webmaster Vet - Anti-Virus Software > http://www.vet.com.au/ Ich bin CA! > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQE+tdB9oBZahcUBONoRAnsPAJwN2PP3KpqENKCUIxcEfRENBXQLSwCgnrve > RXsbThYteHk1Uj6BPFS66u0= > =ISfh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > - ______ _ * / /###\ / \ __ /\ /\ * / ./#### \ * \__|_/ | | / \/ \ | b#####| * _ | __ | | __ = .. \____ \ \_\#####/ / \| / \ | | /\_\/ = \_| * \___\###/ * \_/\_/\__/\__\/_/\__/ = \______/ _ | |
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