Logitech Cordless Presenter blocks keyboard

[Manuel Rabade Garcia]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:43:49 +0200
Markus Dolze <bsdfan at nurfuerspam.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just bought an Logitech Cordless 2.4 GHz Presenter for use with my
> FreeBSD 5.4 laptop.
> 
> This device consists of the cordless device and an USB adapter, which
> appears as a keyboard and mouse to the system.
> 
> Whenever I plug in the USB part, I get:
> 
> Aug 29 17:48:18 <kern.crit> kirika kernel: ukbd0: Logitech USB
> wireless Mouse & Presenter, rev 2.00/35.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1
> Aug 29 17:48:18 <kern.crit> kirika kernel: kbd1 at ukbd0
> Aug 29 17:48:18 <kern.crit> kirika kernel: ums0: Logitech USB wireless
> Mouse & Presenter, rev 2.00/35.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1
> Aug 29 17:48:18 <kern.crit> kirika kernel: ums0: 3 buttons and Z dir.
> 
> However, whenever I do this, the laptop's keyboard is unusable. It
> just accepts no input anymore. Instead when I press a "blank screen"
> button on the cordless device, the letter 'b' is entered (that key is
> used by presentation programs to blank the screen, when in
> presetation mode).
> 
> If I pull out the USB device everything is working as usually.
> 
> Looke like the USB keyboard is taken as the man input device and the
> internal atkbd is disabled.
> 
> Any ideas how to fix this?
> 

FreeBSD supports only one Keyboard at a time (at least in the console,
I don't remember about X11).

Give a look to kbdcontrol(1) and atkbd(4). With kbdcontrol you can
switch between your PS/2 and USB keyboards.

Greetings.

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