Installing on AMD64 without PS/2 keyboard

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 10 September 2004 04:14 pm, David Aquilina wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE and/or the latest 5.3-BETA
> on an AMD64 box I have (both releases exhibit the same behavior). I am
> running into a fairly serious problem, however - the system does not
> have any PS/2 ports, only USB.
>
> FreeBSD sees a phantom keyboard on kbd0 when the USB keyboard is
> plugged in, and the real keyboard on kbd1. Sysinstall only uses kbd0,
> however. To add insult, the keyboard works just fine in the loader,
> however as soon as the kernel starts loading the keyboard is ignored.
>
> I've tried mucking with the BIOS's USB Legacy Keyboard option, but it
> doesn't alter FreeBSD's behavior any.
>
> I've also tried using device hints to disable atkbd.0 and atkbdc.0,
> however they also seem to be ignored.

Add a hint to set the flags on atkbd.0 to "1" so it tries to probe the 
keyboard instead of assuming it is present.  I.e.

set hint.atkbd.0.flags="1"

-- 
John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve"  =  http://www.FreeBSD.org