USB keyboard riddle

[Eduardo Viruena Silva]

On Sun, 4 May 2003, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote:

> On Mon, 5 May 2003, Lachlan O'Dea wrote:
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> > Hi, here's a riddle for you.
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> > I've got a machine with an Abit AT7 motherboard. So no legacy ports,
> > just USB and Firewire. The BIOS has two options for USB keyboard
> > support: "BIOS" or "OS". OS means that the operating system must
> > support the keyboard, BIOS means that the BIOS will emulate a standard
> > keyboard. The keyboard only works in FreeBSD if it's set to OS, but
> > Windows XP doesn't seem to care.
> >
> > This is OK, except that I want to dual boot between Windows XP and
> > FreeBSD. Both the FreeBSD boot manager and GRUB rely on BIOS calls to
> > read from the keyboard. So to actually make a selection in the boot
> > manager, I have to set the keyboard support to BIOS, but then I can't
> > use the keyboard once FreeBSD is running.
> >
> > Is it possible to make this work? I couldn't see anything obvious in
> > the ukbd man page.
>
> Perhaps you  have to change your boot selector.
> I have seen linux's LILO working commanded by the mouse.
>
> why don't you try:
>
> 	http://gag.sourceforge.net/
>
> ?

sorry, it won't work either.
you don't have ps/2 ports.

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