USB keyboard thoughts.

From: David Gilbert (dgilbert_at_dclg.ca)
Date: 09/27/03

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    Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:52:58 -0400
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

    I acquired my first motherboard that does not have ps/2 keyboard and
    mouse connectors on it this week. It's a funny thing ... because a
    keyboard connector seems to be all it doesn't have. It has 6 ide
    channels, digital audio, firewire and 6 USB ports.

    Anyways, usb keyboards don't work that smoothly. If the keyboard
    emulation is set to 'BIOS' ... you can do things like edit the RAID
    config (onboard) or a PCI card BIOS config... but the keyboard won't
    show up at all to FreeBSD.

    With the keyboard compatibility set to 'OS' ... FreeBSD sees and uses
    the keyboard. Two caveat's, however. The boot loader is inaccessible
    in this mode and if the keyboard is not plugged in on boot, it cannot
    be plugged in later. The system recognises ukbd0 when it's plugged
    in, but it doesn't attach to the console.

    I fear that we'll see more motherboards like this.

    Dave. 

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