First character typed lost

[Adam Vande More]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On a Gateway ML6732 notebook, FreeBSD 9-stable is working great.  Video
> works (i915), sound works, the only thing that isn't quite right is that
> the first character typed after the FreeBSD kernel loads is lost. After
> that, it works normally.  This makes entering a passphrase more challenging.
>
> Any suggestions on what to check?  ACPI? atkbd hints?
>
> Currently it's running 9-stable, but did the same thing with 8.x.  Of
> course it works normally for the BIOS and boot menu, FreeBSD loader menu,
> Windows, and Xubuntu.
>
> The system is not terribly old, a Pentium Dual T2390, and this is with a
> GENERIC kernel.
>
> sysctl shows
>
>  dev.atkbdc.0.%desc: Keyboard controller (i8042)
>  dev.atkbdc.0.%driver: atkbdc
>  dev.atkbdc.0.%location: handle=\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.PS2K
>  dev.atkbdc.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=PNP0303 _UID=0
>  dev.atkbdc.0.%parent: acpi0
>  dev.atkbd.0.%desc: AT Keyboard
>  dev.atkbd.0.%driver: atkbd
>  dev.atkbd.0.%parent: atkbdc0
>
> dmesg shows
>
>  atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
>  atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
>  kbd0 at atkbd0
>  atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>

Sometimes ps/2 devices are actually USB ones so I might try fiddling with
BIOS USB settings eg legacy mode to see that makes a difference.  Maybe try
suggesting a different IRQ in device.hints?  Just fishing.

-- 
Adam Vande More