Keyboard problems

Hexren me at hexren.net
Thu Sep 1 15:19:57 GMT 2005


>> I want to install FreeBSD on my computer, but I'm unable to use my USB
>> keyboard to select the menu choices on the installation program using
>> the arrow keys.  What could be causing this?  My keyboard is a Microsoft
>> Natural Keyboard.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Matthew Bach

> On Thursday 01 September 2005 11:40, you wrote:
> Have you change your BIOS setting like "enable USB device" to use the usb 
> device when computer boots? If it is disabled, you may not use your usb 
> keyboard. I am not sure about it, but my usb keyboard can work when I install 
> FreeBSD after I turn the option in BIOS on.
> Gook luck!

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I had a similar problem, droping to the Boot promt and then doing
"set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1"" before "boot" helped me.



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