Re: Example context needing use of hw.usb.usbhid.enable=0 : serial console keyboard input under Parallels (aarch64) [reproduces again]

On Aug 17, 2025, at 13:18, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Jordan Gordeev <jgopensource_at_proton.me> wrote on
> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:40:37 UTC :
> 
>> On Thursday, 14 August 2025 at 21:51, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Have you been implicitly expecting a debug kernel instead of
>>> kernel.GENERIC-NODEBUG ? I had previously provided the text
>>> (note the "GENRIC-NODEBUG"):
>>> 
>> 
>> I was unaware that the -NODEBUG kernel also disables the hkbd(4) debugging output.
>> 
>>> Now testing the debug kernel with hw.hid.hkbd.debug="100" :
>>> It now provides the dmesg -a text you have been
>>> looking for all along. Sorry for the previously bad test
>>> context.
>>> 
>> 
>> What you get in dmesg from the hkbd(4) driver looks very very normal. It's what you would expect from a fully functioning keyboard.
>> 
>> Can you try booting from an install image of FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE with usbhid enabled? You have to escape to the loader prompt and execute "set hw.usb.usbhid.enable=1". Report whether the keyboard works in the installer. Also try an install image for CURRENT such as FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-20250807-02f394281fd6-279407-bootonly.iso where you don't have to manually enable usbhid as it is already enabled by default.
> 
> I'll try such and report back.
> 
> But first I'll report that I for this Parallels under
> macOS context I use:
> 
> # cat /boot/device.hints 
> # This is for virtio_gpu --for avoiding its use under Parallels:
> # dmesg -a | grep -i "virtio.*gpu"
> # virtio_pci1: <VirtIO PCI (modern) GPU adapter> mem 0x10000000-0x17ffffff,0x18008000-0x18008fff,0x18000000-0x18003fff at device 10.0 on pci0
> hint.virtio_pci.1.disabled="1"
> 
> This was to get the simple text console. I never got
> virtio_gpu to work when I was first trying to get the
> context working and was not directly interested in
> it at all.
> 
> I'm not sure how this issue might mix with your
> requested tests. I might need to do the disable.

FYI: Without hint.virtio_pci.1.disabled="1" the
display stops after writing out:

QUOTE
VT: Replacing driver "efifb" with new "virtio_gpu"
END QUOTE

That is just like when I was first trying to get
going with Parallels. So I'm using the hint.


Overall I'm initially using:

5 to select Serial Console instead of Video Console.
  (matching my normal context via /boot/loader.conf
  content)

Note: that "Serial" is wording from the loader UI
and I consider it valid to use the terminology here
for the text console: matching what is seen.

3 to get to the loader prompt

set hint.virtio_pci.1.disabled="1"
set hw.usb.usbhid.enable=1

boot

(15.0 can have hw.usb.usbhid.enable=1 be implicit.)


For FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-bootonly.iso :

I end up with the Welcome screen in the FreeBSD Installer.
It ignores my attempt to tab over to Shell or Live System.
Same for typing S or L. Cursor captures and frees still
work.


For FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-20250807-02f394281fd6-279407-bootonly.iso :

Same.


I tried Video instead of Serial: same.


Thanks,
Mark


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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com