Re: no keyboard after boot

From: Alex Melkomukov (amelkomukov_at_flexpop.net)
Date: 08/13/04

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    Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:28:14 -0700 (PDT)
To: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>

    Hi Ruben,

    Thanks for the pointers. I have been searching google and the archives,
    but it looks like I may have been using keywords that were too general.

    I'll try agian using the suggested search keywords.

    am

    On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Ruben de Groot wrote:

    > On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 08:31:31AM +0200, Oliver Fuchs typed:
    > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Alex Melkomukov wrote:
    > >
    > > > Hello All,
    > > >
    > > > I have a strange situation where the PS/2 keyboard stops working after
    > > > booting to FreeBSD. There is no mouse.
    > > >
    > > > It works fine during POST, I can navigate and set BIOS settings, and can
    > > > even hit the 'enter' key to start booting FreeBSD immediately, but once
    > > > the machine starts booting the OS, the lights on the keyboard flash, then
    > > > go away, no more keyboard.
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > running OS is FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > I don't see anything in the kernel config file that would disable the
    > > > keyboard, and this is what I see in dmesg:
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
    > > > atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
    > > > device_probe_and_attach: atkbd0 attach returned 6
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > I have not been succesfull in finding any documentation that covers what
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > device_probe_and_attach: atkbd0 attach returned 6
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > actually means. Anyone on this list know? Any other ideas, suggestions
    > > > on how to resolve this? what to look for? where to find documentation?
    > > >
    > > > any help would be appreciated.
    > > >
    > > > Alex M.
    > >
    > >
    > > Hi,
    > >
    > > I had the same problem that while booting up I was loosing my keyboard.
    > > As far as I can remember I changed in /boot/device.hints the entry:
    > >
    > > from
    > > hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1"
    > > to
    > > hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x0"
    >
    > That won't help him; he's on 4.3-RELEASE where there's no device.hints file.
    > To the OP: have you tried google ?
    >
    > http://www.google.com/search?q=%22atkbd0+attach+returned+6%22
    >
    > Also, you might want to check the mailing list archives.
    >
    > http://freebsd.rambler.ru
    >
    > cheers,
    > Ruben
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