Keyboard Issue on Dell 1850/FreeBSD

Anish Mistry mistry.7 at osu.edu
Tue Apr 4 17:53:55 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 04 April 2006 13:45, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> mike s. cojocea wrote:
> > Hello, folks,
> >
> > I am working to install a FreeBSD 6.0 on a Dell 1850, with Dell
> > Remote Access Card.
> >
> > After the install is complete the keyboard no longer works.
> >
> > I can access the machine over SSH to do debugging. The
> > /var/log/messages did not show any error:
> >
> > %Apr  4 09:10:14 APPS01 kernel: atkbd0: <AT
> > Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
> > Apr  4 09:10:14 APPS01 kernel: kbd0 at atkbd0
> >
> > I tried it with FreeBSD 5.4 and it does the same thing. A Fedora
> > Core 4 and an RHEL 3 Linux did not have similar keyboard problem.
>
> The DRAC keyboard (USB) takes precedence over any other keyboard
> you attach.  I believe work is in progress to make FreeBSD
> recognise multiple simultaneous keyboards.
The RELENG_6 and CURRENT have kbdmux support for multiple keyboards.

-- 
Anish Mistry
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