First character typed lost

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2012, Adam Vande More wrote:

> 
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>       On a Gateway ML6732 notebook, FreeBSD 9-stable is working great.  Video works (i915), sound works, the only thing that isn't quite right is that the first character typed
>       after the FreeBSD kernel loads is lost. After that, it works normally.  This makes entering a passphrase more challenging.
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> Sometimes ps/2 devices are actually USB ones so I might try fiddling with BIOS USB settings eg legacy mode to see that makes a difference.  Maybe try suggesting a different IRQ in
> device.hints?  Just fishing.

It does have a Legacy USB Support setting, and turning that off... fixed 
it!  That would never have occurred to me.  Thanks!