Re: USB keyboard problems

From: John Baldwin (jhb_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 08/31/04

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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:55:26 -0400

    On Friday 27 August 2004 11:29 pm, M. Warner Losh wrote:
    > In message: <20040828025829.GA51618@prophecy.dyndns.org>
    >
    > Christopher Nehren <apeiron@comcast.net> writes:
    > : On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 22:41:32 EDT, M. Warner Losh scribbled these
    > :
    > : curious markings:
    > : > I guess it all depends on what you mean by recently. I'd thought that
    > : > some of my recent changes had broken it, but the breakage goes back
    > : > further than that. 5.2 release isn't 'recent', and I fully believe
    > : > that things may have changed since then... I see a major uhid upgrade
    > : > in that time frame, which may be the time of breakage...
    > :
    > : I understand your point, but that doesn't sit well with the fact that my
    > : joypad broke *after* I updated from 5.2-CURRENT of ~ August 15 to
    > : 6.0-CURRENT of ~ August 19. Logically, if it had been busted by the uhid
    > : upgrade in March, then it could not possibly have worked with 5.2-CURRENT
    > : (which it did, just as well as it did with 5.2.1-RELEASE[1]), correct?
    > :
    > : [1] Better, in fact, as the device wasn't detected at boot time in 5.2.1
    > : but was in 5.2-CURRENT.
    >
    > Then I'm very confused... Time to dig deeper...

    Alfred turned the atkbd probing off a while back:

    alfred 2004/04/01 13:48:31 PST

      FreeBSD src repository

      Modified files:
        sys/i386/conf GENERIC.hints
      Log:
      Fix booting with ps2 keyboards.

      Revision Changes Path
      1.13 +0 -1 src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints

    This didn't actually affect booting with a PS/2 keyboard, but only meant that
    you could boot up without a PS/2 keyboard and then plug it in, at the cost of
    breaking all uses of USB keyboards unless you use explicit kbdcontrol
    commands. The instant-MFC was backed out of RELENG_4 at the request of re@
    due to POLA. 

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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