no keyboard after boot

Alex Melkomukov amelkomukov at flexpop.net
Fri Aug 13 09:28:22 PDT 2004


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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