PE2850 + FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 - Keyboard not working

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 01:40:06AM -0500, Muthu_T at Dell.com wrote:
> >From: Brooks Davis [mailto:brooks at one-eyed-alien.net] 
> >Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 12:17 AM
> 
> >>On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 08:42:32AM -0500, Muthu_T at Dell.com wrote:
> >> All,
> >> 
> >>    Successfully installed FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 on Dell PE2860.
> >> After rebooting in the login prompt the system doesn't accept any 
> >> keystrokes.
> >> I have 1 USB and 1 PS/2 Keyboard. Both keyboards are working (caps 
> >> on/off, Numlock on/off works), but the characters doesn't comes to
> the 
> >> system console.
> >> 
> >> Attaching the dmesg output.
> >> 
> >> Looks like DELL DRAC (Dell Remote Access Card) card is identified as 
> >> Keyboard.
> >> See the line: (ukbd0: Dell DRAC4, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1)
> >> 
> >> Any fixes?
> >
> >From your other message, I think I see what's happening.  The
> information that the PS/2 keyboard works in 
> >single user mode was critical.  The root problem is that you can have
> one and only one console keyboard 
> >today.  I'm working on fixing that, but it's going to take time.  For
> now we're attemting to work around this >problem by making ukbd0 the
> console keyboard in multiuser mode via devd rules.
> >In your case this backfires because ukbd0 is your DRAC card not yoru
> external USB keyboard.  A workaround 
> >that should work in your case is to boot into single user and comment
> out the ukbd related lines in >/etc/devd.conf.  Then your PS/2 keyboard
> will remain your console keyboard.
> 
> 
> Commenting out the ukbd0 stuff in /etc/devd.conf does the magic. Now
> PS/2 keyboard is working fine!
> 
> Installed the 64bit version of FreeBSD on this m/c. Running without any
> issue. Wonderful Job! :-)

Good to hear.  Hopefully, I'll have a patch to test for multiple
keyboard support soon.

-- Brooks

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