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

From: Brooks Davis (brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net)
Date: 09/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:00:50 -0700
To: Muthu_T@Dell.com

    On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 01:40:06AM -0500, Muthu_T@Dell.com wrote:
    > >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! :-)

    Good to hear. Hopefully, I'll have a patch to test for multiple
    keyboard support soon.

    -- Brooks 

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