How to fix the "keyboard dead" question ?

Fri Sep 17 01:58:03 UTC 2010

I've had similar results on my USB to PS/2 keyboard adapter. If I reconnect the bridge device (not necc. have the KB attached to it) it will work.
On Sep 16, 2010, at 8:08 PM, Polytropon wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:51:31 -0700 (PDT), zaxis <z_axis at 163.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Sometimes after booting freebsd and reaching the slim login screen, i cannot
>> input anything: the keyboard seems to be dead.  Then i have to reboot
>> freebsd and the problem disappear !
> 
> Is this an AT or USB keyboard?
> 
> If it is a USB keyboard: I have similar problems on FreeBSD 7
> (didn't have them before on 5) where the "activation" of the
> USB keyboard sometimes takes up to 2 minutes after system boot
> is complete. Detaching and re-attaching the USB plug sometimes
> helps.
> 
> 
> 
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