Re: Keyboard freezes afterboot

From: active (active_at_despammed.com)
Date: 10/19/03 

Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 01:35:00 GMT

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:42:42 -0400, Brian A. Sekcli wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:07:25 +0000, active wrote:

> Was that a PS/2 or USB keyboard? Some older BIOS's have really primative
> USB keyboard support. Some have a "legacy USB" setting that can cause
> problems. What revision of the BIOS firmware are you running on that box?
> If you have a USB keyboard, can you try a PS/2, and vice/versa?
>
> -lava
The keyboard has the old 5 pins connector (neither usb or ps/2). The bios
is the latest for that motherboard (I tried also a downgrade to a prior
version without any effect).
I read on the netbsd faqs that some old i386 machines could give a kbd
problem... but they say this was fixed from a 1.2.x version.
I thought it could be maybe the acpi support (on some machines it caused
many probs), but I don't know:
1) if generic kernel includes it
2) how to disable it before the boot of an install cd

Thanks 

-- 
bye,
active
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