X with vt instead of sc - keyboard problem

[Aleksandr Rybalko]

On 01.06.2014 22:35, Milan Obuch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> today I tried 'new' vt console for the first time on my workstation
> with AMD C-60 CPU, in dmesg
> 
> CPU: AMD C-60 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (999.98-MHz 686-class CPU)
> 
> pciconf -lvb identifies vga as
> 
> vgapci0 at pci0:0:1:0: class=0x030000 card=0x853a1043 chip=0x98071002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> vendor   = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI'
> device   = 'Wrestler [Radeon HD 6290]'
> class    = display
> subclass = VGA
> bar [10] = type Prefetchable Memory, range 32, base 0xc0000000, size 268435456, enabled
> bar [14] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xf000, size 256, enabled
> bar [18] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xfeb00000, size 262144, enabled
> 
> Everything seems to work well, just no response for key pressed, thus
> no input from keyboard, but mouse works as expected. I can logout
> from X with mouse (I use XFCE, so this is just three clicks or so).
> There is no config file in /etc/X11, everything is autoconfigured.
> 
> If I ssh to this box and do a 'vidcontrol -s 1' switch from there, I
> can work with text console, only minor issue is there is no cursor, but
> it appears when I type anything and delete it with backspace. Then
> Alt-Fn switches to other terminal as usual, but if I switch to terminal
> where I started X originally from, keyboard works in raw mode, I can't
> type commands, just keypress/keyrelease scancodes are displayed in octal
> notation. At this point, I need 'vidcontrol -s 1' again from ssh
> session to be able to do anything useful.
> 
> I did today a full buildworld/buildkernel, with old sc + vga kernel and
> another kernel with new vt + vt_vga, so I can just switch kernel used
> and try any hint. Maybe I just did something stupid and I should
> recompile something to reflect new vt console being used, which I would
> expect if display would not work as expected, but when the problem is
> with keyboard, I am a bit surprised.
> 
> Regards,
> Milan
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Hello Milan,

that problem looks like one I was fix today,
vt(4) was try to allocate keyboard twice, and lost first.

Can you please update to latest HEAD and try it again?

Many thanks!

WBW