keyboard for a blade

[Paul Robinson]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:04:45PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:

> 	Somehow the keyboard (USB/PS2) is rerouted, but gets lost to freebsd,
> btw, im running current, since on stable the bge doesn't work.

If there's no PS/2 keyboard attached at boot time, FBSD will unload the
atkbd driver to a give a change to the driver for a USB keyboard and (rather
infuriatingly for me) won't allow re-connection of a PS/2 keyboard until you
either kbdcontrol it (how, if you haven't got a working keyboard?) or power
cycle the box. Similar problems occur if you also don't have a USB keyboard
attached.

Your blade centre is probably only "connecting" a keyboard when you need it, 
so you should treat it like a headless server. In your kernel config change 
this line:

device          atkbd0  at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1

For this one:

device          atkbd0  at atkbdc? irq 1

This means that the PS/2 atkbd driver will be loaded even if a keyboard is
not actually connected at boot time.

If that doesn't fix it in your blade centre, then it's because it's
providing a "USB keyboard" to the blade not a PS/2 keyboard, and I don't
know how to fix that one because I've never had the problem.

Hope that helps somehow.

-- 
Paul Robinson
http://www.iconoplex.co.uk/