RE: PE2850 + FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 - Keyboard not working

Muthu_T_at_Dell.com
Date: 09/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:40:06 -0500
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    >From: Brooks Davis [mailto:brooks@one-eyed-alien.net]
    >Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 12:17 AM

    >>On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 08:42:32AM -0500, Muthu_T@Dell.com wrote:
    >> All,
    >>
    >> Successfully installed FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 on Dell PE2860.
    >> After rebooting in the login prompt the system doesn't accept any
    >> keystrokes.
    >> I have 1 USB and 1 PS/2 Keyboard. Both keyboards are working (caps
    >> on/off, Numlock on/off works), but the characters doesn't comes to
    the
    >> system console.
    >>
    >> Attaching the dmesg output.
    >>
    >> Looks like DELL DRAC (Dell Remote Access Card) card is identified as
    >> Keyboard.
    >> See the line: (ukbd0: Dell DRAC4, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1)
    >>
    >> Any fixes?
    >
    >From your other message, I think I see what's happening. The
    information that the PS/2 keyboard works in
    >single user mode was critical. The root problem is that you can have
    one and only one console keyboard
    >today. I'm working on fixing that, but it's going to take time. For
    now we're attemting to work around this >problem by making ukbd0 the
    console keyboard in multiuser mode via devd rules.
    >In your case this backfires because ukbd0 is your DRAC card not yoru
    external USB keyboard. A workaround
    >that should work in your case is to boot into single user and comment
    out the ukbd related lines in >/etc/devd.conf. Then your PS/2 keyboard
    will remain your console keyboard.

    Commenting out the ukbd0 stuff in /etc/devd.conf does the magic. Now
    PS/2 keyboard is working fine!

    Installed the 64bit version of FreeBSD on this m/c. Running without any
    issue. Wonderful Job! :-)

    Thanks.

    --T. Muthu Mohan

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