switching to usb kbd and mouse

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:39:02AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <200409141522.14053.resident at b-o.ru>
>             Riabtsev Andrew <resident at b-o.ru> writes:
> : On 14 September 2004 13:32, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> : > ? ??, 13/09/2004 ? 23:17 -1000, Randy Bush ?????:
> : > > so i boot my thinkpad t40p with normal keyboard and touchpad mouse.
> : > > i decide to go to usb mouse and keyboard.  it seems to work to move
> : > > the mouse by just killing moused and restarting it as
> : > >
> : > >     moused -p /dev/ums0 -t auto
> : > >
> : > > but how to i move the keyboard to usb?
> : >
> : > You need something like this:
> : >
> : > /etc/usbd.conf:
> : > ...
> : > # Keyboard
> : > device "Keyboard"
> : >         devname "ukbd[0-9]+"
> : >         attach "/usr/sbin/kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1 < /dev/ttyv0"
> : >         detach "/usr/sbin/kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd0 < /dev/ttyv0"
> : btw this solution not working for me: usbd runned in debug verbose mode shows 
> : me that on detach event usbd did not receive devname. So i had to add strings 
> : vendor and product in "Keyboard" section. Is it possible to fix it somehow so 
> : i can plug any usb keyboards? Or vendor and product is the same for any 
> : keyboard?
> 
> I've been using devd to get around such deficiencies.  However, on
> detach, it seems that I don't need to run kbdcontrol at all.

Warner already know this but code to deal with this is in the default
devd.conf in HEAD and RELENG_5.

-- Brooks

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