On May 15, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Synopsis: Keyboard not recognized during first step of
install
> (Elite model ECS 755-A/A2)
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: rodrigc
> State-Changed-When: Mon May 15 13:58:06 UTC 2006
> State-Changed-Why:
> Are you using a USB keyboard? Can you try installing
> FreeBSD 6.1? USB keyboard support was improved in that
> release.
I upgraded a box from 6.0 to 6.1 which only has a USB
keyboard on
it. However, for some idiotic reason Dell included an
atkbdc
controller even though there are no ports to connect to it.
I cannot boot into single user mode and get a console
keyboard on the
screen. I tried the setting hint.atkbdc.0.disabled=1 and it
made the
kernel not find the atkdbc device but the USB keyboard is
still
unresponsive after BIOS and initial boot loader prompts.
I double checked that the console's hints file entries tell
it to
probe for keyboard until it finds one (flags 0x100) but it
doesn't.
I also make sure ukbd module is pre-loaded by loader.conf.
Not until
devd runs does it connect the USB keyboard to the console,
and I can
then drop back to single user mode and complete the
installworld, etc.
I didn't notice this earlier since all systems I upgraded
during the
RC cycle had serial consoles which worked fine.
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