FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE doesn't correctly detect USB mouse/keyboard

2013-10-11 Thread Odhiambo Washington
I am running vanilla 9.2-RELEASE on an HP Z230. Strangely, my USB keyboard and mouse don't work. When I attach, here is what shows: Oct 11 12:36:39 waridi kernel: usb_alloc_device: device init 2 failed (USB_ERR_IOERROR, ignored) Oct 11 12:36:39 waridi kernel: ugen0.2: Unknown at usbus0

detecting keyboard layout during boot

2013-05-15 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I have in /etc/rc.conf a line keymap=german.iso to set the keyboard to German; as the system in question is on an USB key for boot and sometimes used in other laptops with QWERTY layout, I would like to have it adapt itself to the actual layout without changing anything before booting

Re: detecting keyboard layout during boot

2013-05-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 09:35 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: is there some way to detect the actual keyboard layout automagically? I suspect it's impossible to request what keyboard is used, since some Linux installers ask the user to type some keys, after that auto-detection does work. Perhaps you

Re: detecting keyboard layout during boot

2013-05-15 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 15 May 2013 09:35:54 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I have in /etc/rc.conf a line keymap=german.iso to set the keyboard to German; as the system in question is on an USB key for boot and sometimes used in other laptops with QWERTY layout, I would like to have it adapt

Re: detecting keyboard layout during boot

2013-05-15 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, May 15, 2013 a las 03:27:24PM +0200, Polytropon escribió: On Wed, 15 May 2013 09:35:54 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I have in /etc/rc.conf a line keymap=german.iso to set the keyboard to German; as the system in question is on an USB key for boot

Re: detecting keyboard layout during boot

2013-05-15 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 15 May 2013 15:53:08 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Here on an laptop/netbook EeePC 900 with English keyboard it says: # dmesg | fgrep kbd kbd1 at kbdmux0 atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0

Re: detecting keyboard layout during boot

2013-05-15 Thread Signore Citizen
On Wed, May 15, 2013, at 07:45 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 15 May 2013 15:53:08 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Here on an laptop/netbook EeePC 900 with English keyboard it says: # dmesg | fgrep kbd kbd1 at kbdmux0 atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) port 0x60,0x64 irq 1

Keyboard weirdness

2013-01-12 Thread Andre Goree
All of a sudden today Im having a very weird issue with my keyboards. 1. Pressing the ctrl key nets a single quotation mark 2. Pressing s nets s. (s followed by a period). Pressing period nets that same s. combination 3. Pressing the quotation key does nothing. Thats just what Ive come

Re: Keyboard weirdness

2013-01-12 Thread Andre Goree
even on the console. Turns out this is a hardware problem with they keyboard itself, I have the same issue when plugging the keyboard into another system. -- Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: keyboard and mouse problem

2013-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jack Mc Lauren jack.mclau...@yahoo.com writes: I have a freeBSD 8.2 amd64 on my system and I'm using gnome environment. But after a few seconds my USB keyboard and  PS/2 mouse hang up !!! What should I do ? Are you still able to switch to other virtual terminals? Are you still able to ssh

Re: keyboard and mouse problem

2013-01-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 23:53:04 -0800 (PST) Jack Mc Lauren jack.mclau...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a freeBSD 8.2 amd64 on my system and I'm using gnome environment. But after a few seconds my USB keyboard and  PS/2 mouse hang up !!! when did you setup the system? Did this happen after

keyboard and mouse problem

2013-01-08 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
Hi guys I have a freeBSD 8.2 amd64 on my system and I'm using gnome environment. But after a few seconds my USB keyboard and  PS/2 mouse hang up !!! What should I do ? Thanks in advance ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Apple Aluminium Keyboard (w/ numpad) woe

2012-08-09 Thread Steve Roome
Hi all, has anyone got any pointers for why my Apple (A1243) wired USB keyboard (with numpad, gb/uk model) doesn't want to report F13 (and some other keys). This is on 9.0, though it was the same on 8, 7, and IIRC, 6. It's clear that the ukbd driver sees the key presses (see below), but I can't

Re: Apple Aluminium Keyboard (w/ numpad) woe

2012-08-09 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:10:46 +0100, Steve Roome wrote: Hi all, has anyone got any pointers for why my Apple (A1243) wired USB keyboard (with numpad, gb/uk model) doesn't want to report F13 (and some other keys). Seems to be related not only to this model. I have the old version here (white

Re: keyboard latency from time to time

2012-05-10 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, April 09, 2012 a las 07:06:59PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: Months later, in some other issue, I learned about the feature of KDE slow keys and what I have described is exactly the same behaviour and I can now even reproduce this with just pressing and holding down the

Re: Was..... Lots of lagging after upgrade of xorg. Now keyboard layout is lost

2012-04-24 Thread Polytropon
. ___ http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html After adding the above Option I lost the Swedish layout of my keyboard. Following the instructions and editing the /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi I already have the file in place

Re: Was..... Lots of lagging after upgrade of xorg. Now keyboard layout is lost

2012-04-24 Thread Warren Block
://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html After adding the above Option I lost the Swedish layout of my keyboard. It's not required to disable HAL, but that's usually what people are trying to do when they turn off AEI. To leave HAL enabled, remove the AutoAddDevices option. Keyboard

Re: Was..... Lots of lagging after upgrade of xorg. Now keyboard layout is lost

2012-04-24 Thread Leslie Jensen
. ___ http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html After adding the above Option I lost the Swedish layout of my keyboard. It's not required to disable HAL, but that's usually what people are trying to do when they turn off AEI. To leave HAL enabled, remove

Was..... Lots of lagging after upgrade of xorg. Now keyboard layout is lost

2012-04-23 Thread Leslie Jensen
/aei.html After adding the above Option I lost the Swedish layout of my keyboard. Following the instructions and editing the /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi I already have the file in place with the following setup: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1? deviceinfo version=0.2

Dual monitors ok, but no mouse and keyboard action on the slave screen

2012-04-22 Thread Kenneth Hatteland
I`ve gotten a 17 inch monitor in addition to my 22 inch working with 2 separate desktops. I plan to have stuff like wireshark etc on the smallest. But I have a problem, I can get no work done since I have no mouse or keyboard working on the 17... Anyone have somewhere with a solution to point

Re: Dual monitors ok, but no mouse and keyboard action on the slave screen

2012-04-22 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:43:31 +0200, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: I`ve gotten a 17 inch monitor in addition to my 22 inch working with 2 separate desktops. I plan to have stuff like wireshark etc on the smallest. But I have a problem, I can get no work done since I have no mouse or keyboard

Re: Dual monitors ok, but no mouse and keyboard action on the slave screen

2012-04-22 Thread Warren Block
since I have no mouse or keyboard working on the 17... Anyone have somewhere with a solution to point me towards ? There are basically two kind of two-monitor settings: One is to have the WM manage them, the other one is to concatenate them to one logical screen. I've been using the concatenated

Keyboard Input Vanishes Seconds After Loading GNOME

2012-04-12 Thread tmp
gdm_enable=YES After entering in my password at the GNOME GDM login, I am able to get to my desktop and have access to my programs. However, if I were to open say Gedit and type for any period of time, my keyboard input will disappear and I will either be unable to type anything

Re: keyboard latency from time to time

2012-04-09 Thread Matthias Apitz
to another (can't say what action triggers this) the keyboard stops working; there are just no keyevents delivered on short press to any window; I've checked it with xev(1); mouse is working fine and I can close the windows or the whole session of KDE, of course loosing my connections

Re: XFCE keyboard layout tab missing

2012-01-27 Thread Tony McC
know the 4.8 release has some issues with mounting devices which used to use HAL but doesn't now, from what I understand of the issue it's not a deal breaker for me, what I am struggling with is that I cannot set the keyboard in XFCE to dvorak, as the layout tab is missing and the keyboard icon

XFCE keyboard layout tab missing

2012-01-26 Thread Neil Munro
HAL but doesn't now, from what I understand of the issue it's not a deal breaker for me, what I am struggling with is that I cannot set the keyboard in XFCE to dvorak, as the layout tab is missing and the keyboard icon in the settings window has no icon. I imagined this was at first just requiring

RE: Problems with keyboard on the loader menu

2011-12-08 Thread Patrick Mahan
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Airton Arantes Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 5:46 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with keyboard on the loader menu I'm having troubles

X11 - keyboard driver unloaded, how to load it again

2011-12-07 Thread Sebastian Chmielewski
Hi, I've an USB Mouse - Microsoft Wireless Mouse 1000, which is recognized also as a keyboard: ugen1.3: vendor 0x192f at usbus1 (disconnected) ums0: at uhub2, port 2, addr 3 (disconnected) ugen0.5: Microsoft at usbus0 ukbd0: Microsoft Microsoft 2.4GHz Transceiver v8.0, class 0/0, rev 2.00/6.56

Re: X11 - keyboard driver unloaded, how to load it again

2011-12-07 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 08:48:20 +0100 Sebastian Chmielewski chmi...@o2.pl wrote: Hi, I've an USB Mouse - Microsoft Wireless Mouse 1000, which is recognized also as a keyboard: ugen1.3: vendor 0x192f at usbus1 (disconnected) ums0: at uhub2, port 2, addr 3 (disconnected) ugen0.5: Microsoft

Problems with keyboard on the loader menu

2011-12-07 Thread Airton Arantes
I'm having troubles with my keyboard when the bootstrapping reach the loader menu. My Keyboard simply doesn't works, but before and after the loader menu my keyboard works very well. I have seen BIOS settings like USB keyboard and nothing is helping. I didn't no one kernel tuning, I'm using

Re: No usb keyboard in single user mode

2011-11-21 Thread David Demelier
Multimedia Keyboard, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.20, addr 2 on usbus0 kbd1 at ukbd0 uhid0:BTC USB Multimedia Keyboard, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.20, addr 2 on usbus0 ugen1.2:vendor 0x0a12 at usbus1 ubt0:vendor 0x0a12 EDRClassone, class 224/1, rev 2.00/19.58, addr 2 on usbus1 ugen0.3:Logitech at usbus0 So here

No usb keyboard in single user mode

2011-11-11 Thread David Demelier
Hello, This question may have been asked a lot of time but I have the same problem, my USB keyboard works well with the loader, when the system has successfully booted but not in the single user mode. I don't know if this matters but when the request When prompted Enter full pathname

Dvorak keyboard (Spanish)

2011-08-24 Thread Alvaro Castillo
Can add Dvorak spanish variant for syscons? http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Teclado_Dvorak_Español.png Cheers! -- netSys-- http://www.byteandbit.info

Re: Dvorak keyboard (Spanish)

2011-08-24 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
the file to add the keys you need for a Spanish keyboard. If you're uncertain what keycode a certain key generates, use the misc/kbdscan port [1] to find out. When you're done editing load the new keyboard with kbdcontrol -l your-spanish-dvorak.kbd When you're satisfied you can copy the file

keyboard latency from time to time

2011-07-25 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I run a 9-CURRENT from end of October on an Acer D250 laptop; which in general runs very fine; from time to time (say once a month) I encounter the following situation within KDE3 or X11: from a moment to another (can't say what action triggers this) the keyboard stops working

xpdf does not accept input from keyboard

2011-05-30 Thread Dieter BSD
to mostly work, except that it does not notice any input from the keyboard.  Clicking on buttons with the mouse works as expected, but attempting to paste text into the find text box does not work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

xpdf does not accept input from keyboard

2011-05-20 Thread Dieter BSD
to mostly work, except that it does not notice any input from the keyboard.  Clicking on buttons with the mouse works as expected, but attempting to paste text into the find text box does not work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:13:48PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Gnumeric I use more frequently (for spreadsheets). I hate having to start up that monolithic libreoffice just to do a spreadsheet, but that would be a HAL-free alternative. When I'm creating something from scratch that some people

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-17 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 May 2011 17:13:48 -0700, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: I don't use dia very often (it's for diagrams). So maybe gnuplot is an alternative (if we have the same kind of diagrams in mind)? Gnumeric I use more frequently (for spreadsheets). I hate having to start

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-17 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:27:50 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:13:48PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Gnumeric I use more frequently (for spreadsheets). I hate having to start up that monolithic libreoffice just to do a spreadsheet, but that would be a

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-17 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Warren Block on Monday, 16 May 2011: On Mon, 16 May 2011, Chip Camden wrote: Looks like cinepaint doesn't have any GNOME dependencies, and also no HAL dependency. Now if I can just learn how to do everything I know how to do in GIMP, I'll be set for that piece. I don't use dia very

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-17 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Warren Block on Monday, 16 May 2011: On Mon, 16 May 2011, Chip Camden wrote: Looks like cinepaint doesn't have any GNOME dependencies, and also no HAL dependency. Now if I can just learn how to do everything I know how to do in GIMP, I'll be set for that piece. I don't use dia very

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 15 May 2011 12:18:28 -0700, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: I wish I could figure out what dependency wanted HAL to be installed so I could remove it. I would assume that the HAL dependency may be required by some deeper-inside Gnome part that is used by Gimp, maybe a

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 16, 2011 10:00:38 AM +0200, Polytropon is alleged to have said: On Sun, 15 May 2011 12:18:28 -0700, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: I wish I could figure out what dependency wanted HAL to be installed so I could remove it. I would assume that the HAL dependency may

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Warren Block
to not use hal. Then rebuild the keyboard, mouse, and video drivers. One problem with getting rid of hal entirely is libgnomeui, which depends on gvfs, which depends on gnome-mount, which depends on hal. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Daniel Staal on Monday, 16 May 2011: --As of May 16, 2011 10:00:38 AM +0200, Polytropon is alleged to have said: On Sun, 15 May 2011 12:18:28 -0700, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: I wish I could figure out what dependency wanted HAL to be installed so I could remove

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Eitan Adler
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2011 12:18:28 -0700, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: I wish I could figure out what dependency wanted HAL to be installed so I could remove it. I would assume that the HAL dependency may be

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Chip Camden
be nice to easily find the root few. xorg-server can be set to not use hal. Then rebuild the keyboard, mouse, and video drivers. One problem with getting rid of hal entirely is libgnomeui, which depends on gvfs, which depends on gnome-mount, which depends on hal. Yes, that seems

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:14:49 -0700, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Warren Block on Monday, 16 May 2011: One problem with getting rid of hal entirely is libgnomeui, which depends on gvfs, which depends on gnome-mount, which depends on hal. That's what I did assume.

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 16 May 2011, Polytropon wrote: Maybe, just MAYBE, the gnome-mount dependency can be installed without requiring HAL. I don't know much about the details, but HAL has been said to be the means for automounting local media, and maybe is in conjuction with Samba. If you can disable such

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:14:49AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Yes, that seems to be the sticking point. The only option appears to be doing without gimp, gnumeric, and dia, which all depend upon libgnomeui. Any Gnome-free alternatives out there? I don't use anything like gnumeric or dia,

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Monday, 16 May 2011: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:14:49AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Yes, that seems to be the sticking point. The only option appears to be doing without gimp, gnumeric, and dia, which all depend upon libgnomeui. Any Gnome-free alternatives out there?

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Monday, 16 May 2011: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:14:49AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Yes, that seems to be the sticking point. The only option appears to be doing without gimp, gnumeric, and dia, which all depend upon libgnomeui. Any Gnome-free alternatives out there?

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 16 May 2011, Chip Camden wrote: Looks like cinepaint doesn't have any GNOME dependencies, and also no HAL dependency. Now if I can just learn how to do everything I know how to do in GIMP, I'll be set for that piece. I don't use dia very often (it's for diagrams). Gnumeric I use more

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-15 Thread Polytropon
Please allow me a technical sidenote: On Sat, 14 May 2011 20:53:27 -0700 (PDT), Rob Clark rpcl...@ymail.com wrote: Trying the obvious first, I unplugged the keyboard and plugged it back in the ps2 port, and keyboard worked immediately -- this was repeatable.  Do _NOT_ hotplug the PS/2 port

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-15 Thread Lars Eighner
, then remove hal. Some digging around revealed that I had the following line in /etc/rc.conf twice: moused_enable=YES I removed one of these (which I guess was the culprit) and left one as it should have been, then all was well.  Keyboard found at reboot, no further issues -- mouse was available

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-15 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Lars Eighner on Sunday, 15 May 2011: On Sat, 14 May 2011, Rob Clark wrote: After restarting X, prior to any reboot, I lost the mouse in X. So I figured a reboot was in order. This is almost certainly HAL. If you do not know you need HAL for something, mark the hal and hal-info

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-15 Thread perryh
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Do _NOT_ hotplug the PS/2 port! It's not capable of that! I've seen myself in the past that trying so caused a mainboard to fly into the garbage can - as hotplugging the keyboard seemed to have damaged the PS/2 port (it didn't work anymore

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-15 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 15, 2011 8:03:29 PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com is alleged to have said: The AT and PS/2 keyboard interfaces are electrically identical -- only the physical connector is different. (I have seen, and used, adapters to connect either type of keyboard to the other type of system

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-15 Thread perryh
Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: --As of May 15, 2011 8:03:29 PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com is alleged to have said: The AT and PS/2 keyboard interfaces are electrically identical -- only the physical connector is different. --As for the rest, it is mine. The physical connector

No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-14 Thread Rob Clark
figured a reboot was in order. Issue: After a reboot I found I had no keyboard -- not even in console mode.  Trying the obvious first, I unplugged the keyboard and plugged it back in the ps2 port, and keyboard worked immediately -- this was repeatable.  Reboot, same thing, no keyboard. Some digging

Re: FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-18 Thread Sascha Vieweg
On 11-04-09 17:17, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Sascha Vieweg wrote: As a curious beginner I am running FreeBSD on VMWare Fusion 3.1.2 on a MacBook Pro 13'' i5, and I want to do two things on the normal (startup) console: (1) use my apple keyboard, especially, scroll through

Re: FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 18, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Sascha Vieweg wrote: man syscons | less -p'Back Scrolling' ... Says: press the `slock' key (with some PC keyboard description). However, I have got a MB Pro where no such key is available. Thus, I may repeat my question: How can I get console scolling working

Re: FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-18 Thread David Scheidt
On Apr 18, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 18, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Sascha Vieweg wrote: man syscons | less -p'Back Scrolling' ... Says: press the `slock' key (with some PC keyboard description). However, I have got a MB Pro where no such key is available. Thus, I may repeat

Re: FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-09 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Sascha Vieweg wrote: As a curious beginner I am running FreeBSD on VMWare Fusion 3.1.2 on a MacBook Pro 13'' i5, and I want to do two things on the normal (startup) console: (1) use my apple keyboard, especially, scroll through console output man syscons | less -p'Back

FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-08 Thread Sascha Vieweg
As a curious beginner I am running FreeBSD on VMWare Fusion 3.1.2 on a MacBook Pro 13'' i5, and I want to do two things on the normal (startup) console: (1) use my apple keyboard, especially, scroll through console output (2) have a screen resolution of at least 800x600. Both things seem

Re: FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-08 Thread Christopher Hilton
On Apr 8, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Sascha Vieweg wrote: As a curious beginner I am running FreeBSD on VMWare Fusion 3.1.2 on a MacBook Pro 13'' i5, and I want to do two things on the normal (startup) console: (1) use my apple keyboard, especially, scroll through console output (2) have

Re: FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-08 Thread Christopher Hilton
On Apr 8, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Sascha Vieweg wrote: As a curious beginner I am running FreeBSD on VMWare Fusion 3.1.2 on a MacBook Pro 13'' i5, and I want to do two things on the normal (startup) console: (1) use my apple keyboard, especially, scroll through console output The Apple

keyboard click driver:: User-side.

2011-03-27 Thread Gary Kline
/dsp and output a click via click.h. I am learning python and find it pretty straightforward. I think using Scott's keyboard program with mine can allow me to do just what I want. On the user-side, have clicky keys where necessary. This feedback would help folks using the severely cheep

terminal emulators with secure keyboard capability

2011-03-11 Thread Chad Perrin
For those who aren't aware, XTerm offers a pretty nifty security feature, particular for cases of entering passwords. If you hold down the Ctrl key and the left left mouse button, a menu appears; the second item down is Secure Keyboard. From the XTerm manpage: The Secure Keyboard mode

Re: Keyboard repeat issues with Dell Optiplex 980s

2011-01-20 Thread Steve Polyack
. We were running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. The migration was performed by simply swapping the drives into the new systems. Immediately after switching people over, they all began to report bizarre keyboard issues - things like infinite key repeats (letters, numbers, enter) for keys they did not hold down

Re: Keyboard repeat issues with Dell Optiplex 980s

2011-01-19 Thread Steve Polyack
was performed by simply swapping the drives into the new systems. Immediately after switching people over, they all began to report bizarre keyboard issues - things like infinite key repeats (letters, numbers, enter) for keys they did not hold down. The key repeats continue indefinitely until

Re: Keyboard repeat issues with Dell Optiplex 980s

2011-01-19 Thread Steve Polyack
the drives into the new systems. Immediately after switching people over, they all began to report bizarre keyboard issues - things like infinite key repeats (letters, numbers, enter) for keys they did not hold down. The key repeats continue indefinitely until another key is pressed. Occasionally, even

Re: Re: Keyboard repeat issues with Dell Optiplex 980s

2011-01-19 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
. The migration was performed by simply swapping the drives into the new systems. Immediately after switching people over, they all began to report bizarre keyboard issues - things like infinite key repeats (letters, numbers, enter) for keys they did not hold down. The key repeats continue indefinitely until

Re: Keyboard repeat issues with Dell Optiplex 980s

2011-01-19 Thread Steve Polyack
. We were running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. The migration was performed by simply swapping the drives into the new systems. Immediately after switching people over, they all began to report bizarre keyboard issues - things like infinite key repeats (letters, numbers, enter) for keys they did not hold down

Re: Keyboard repeat issues with Dell Optiplex 980s

2011-01-19 Thread Steve Polyack
was performed by simply swapping the drives into the new systems. Immediately after switching people over, they all began to report bizarre keyboard issues - things like infinite key repeats (letters, numbers, enter) for keys they did not hold down. The key repeats continue indefinitely until

Re: Keyboard repeat issues with Dell Optiplex 980s

2011-01-19 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
to Optiplex 980s. We were running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. The migration was performed by simply swapping the drives into the new systems. Immediately after switching people over, they all began to report bizarre keyboard issues - things like infinite key repeats (letters, numbers, enter) for keys

Keyboard repeat issues with Dell Optiplex 980s

2011-01-18 Thread Steve Polyack
keyboard issues - things like infinite key repeats (letters, numbers, enter) for keys they did not hold down. The key repeats continue indefinitely until another key is pressed. Occasionally, even mouse input will trigger similar infinite keyboard input repetition. In addition to the repeat issue

Re: Keyboard repeat issues with Dell Optiplex 980s

2011-01-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
after switching people over, they all began to report bizarre keyboard issues - things like infinite key repeats (letters, numbers, enter) for keys they did not hold down. The key repeats continue indefinitely until another key is pressed. Occasionally, even mouse input will trigger similar

How to fix the keyboard dead question ?

2010-09-16 Thread zaxis
Sometimes after booting freebsd and reaching the slim login screen, i cannot input anything: the keyboard seems to be dead. Then i have to reboot freebsd and the problem disappear ! uname -a FreeBSD mybsd.zsoft.com 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #1: Wed Sep 8 09:07:54 CST 2010 r

Re: How to fix the keyboard dead question ?

2010-09-16 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:51:31 -0700 (PDT), zaxis z_a...@163.com wrote: Sometimes after booting freebsd and reaching the slim login screen, i cannot input anything: the keyboard seems to be dead. Then i have to reboot freebsd and the problem disappear ! Is this an AT or USB keyboard

Re: How to fix the keyboard dead question ?

2010-09-16 Thread Ryan Coleman
I've had similar results on my USB to PS/2 keyboard adapter. If I reconnect the bridge device (not necc. have the KB attached to it) it will work. On Sep 16, 2010, at 8:08 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:51:31 -0700 (PDT), zaxis z_a...@163.com wrote: Sometimes after booting

Re: Cleaned out /usr/local when reinstalling ports, now keyboard in X is not localized

2010-08-31 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2010-08-30 21:02, Bernt Hansson wrote: Put this in your .xinitrc setxkbmap se Thanks for the suggestion! I wonder, is this metod the correct way. According to the handbook one should use the /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi file. /Leslie

Re: Cleaned out /usr/local when reinstalling ports, now keyboard in X is not localized

2010-08-31 Thread Bernt Hansson
2010-08-31 10:29, Leslie Jensen skrev: On 2010-08-30 21:02, Bernt Hansson wrote: Put this in your .xinitrc setxkbmap se Thanks for the suggestion! I wonder, is this metod the correct way. I think so, as long X is concerned. According to the handbook one should use the

Re: Cleaned out /usr/local when reinstalling ports, now keyboard in X is not localized

2010-08-31 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:38:57 +0200 Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net articulated: 2010-08-31 10:29, Leslie Jensen skrev: On 2010-08-30 21:02, Bernt Hansson wrote: Put this in your .xinitrc setxkbmap se Thanks for the suggestion! I wonder, is this metod the correct way. I

Re: Cleaned out /usr/local when reinstalling ports, now keyboard in X is not localized

2010-08-31 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2010-08-31 12:38, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2010-08-31 10:29, Leslie Jensen skrev: On 2010-08-30 21:02, Bernt Hansson wrote: Put this in your .xinitrc setxkbmap se Thanks for the suggestion! I wonder, is this metod the correct way. I think so, as long X is concerned. According to

Cleaned out /usr/local when reinstalling ports, now keyboard in X is not localized

2010-08-30 Thread Leslie Jensen
So I get a US keyboard layout instead of SE. My /var/log/Xorg.0.log (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Keyboard (II) LoadModule: kbd (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input/kbd_drv.so (II) Module kbd

Re: Cleaned out /usr/local when reinstalling ports, now keyboard in X is not localized

2010-08-30 Thread Bernt Hansson
/match /device /deviceinfo So I get a US keyboard layout instead of SE. My /var/log/Xorg.0.log (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Keyboard (II) LoadModule: kbd (II) Loading /usr/local

FreeBSD/amd: boot/loader ignores usb-keyboard

2010-08-17 Thread Dr. A. Haakh
Hello, when i switched to an usb-keyboard some month ago, i realized, that boot/loader ignores input from this device. The bootmanager accepts input, loader not. Is there any configuration-parameter to fix this? Andreas ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Spanish keyboard in X

2010-07-23 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi, This is working for me correctly. In gnome select Sistema/Preferencias/Teclado (System/preferences/Keyboard) and select the appropriate layout. Also on my .bash_profile I've included a: export LANG=es_ES.ISO8859-15 Cheers, Antonio On 18/07/2010 18:49, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: Hi,I'm

Re: Spanish keyboard in X

2010-07-19 Thread Matthias Apitz
related to the question: If you need Spanish Tilde chars but you have only an English or German keyboard (like I have), you can make use of the so called WindowsKey in X11 and define the keys like shown below. After this, for example, the combination WindowsKey+a gives á (a-tilde). # $Id: xmod.sh,v 1.1

Re: Spanish keyboard in X

2010-07-19 Thread Polytropon
.xsession Thanks. Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com A bit related to the question: If you need Spanish Tilde chars but you have only an English or German keyboard (like I have), you can make use of the so called WindowsKey in X11 and define the keys like shown below. Just

Spanish keyboard in X

2010-07-18 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Hi,I'm trying to configure spanish keyboard in FreeBsd 8.1-RC2 with no luck, I've read many documents on the web, but they seem to be rather old, or assume that the user has Gnome or KDE installed, I use Awesome WM. Any hint? Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com

Re: Spanish keyboard in X

2010-07-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:49:16 -0700 (PDT), Leonardo M. Ramé martinr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi,I'm trying to configure spanish keyboard in FreeBsd 8.1-RC2 with no luck, I've read many documents on the web, but they seem to be rather old, or assume that the user has Gnome or KDE installed, I use

Re: Spanish keyboard in X

2010-07-18 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
: Re: Spanish keyboard in X To: Leonardo M. Ramé martinr...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010, 2:36 PM On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:49:16 -0700 (PDT), Leonardo M. Ramé martinr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi,I'm trying to configure spanish keyboard in FreeBsd 8.1-RC2

Re: USB keyboard: mode switch / numlock freezes

2010-04-27 Thread Anselm Strauss
always remap the Num Lock functionality onto another key that doesn't fail after the 4th use - see xmodmap. I tried xev, but there is no event when I press the mode switch. I mapped numlock to scrolllcok for testing. I then see the numlock event but the mode on the keyboard block does not change

Re: USB keyboard: mode switch / numlock freezes

2010-04-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:33:28 +0200, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Could it be a numlock issue? Any idea how to address this? A good tool for diagnostics always is the xev program. See if something like KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x1c1, root 0x73, subw

USB keyboard: mode switch / numlock freezes

2010-04-25 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I have a Roccat Arvo keyboard that has a number block with integrated positioning keys (arrows, del, end, ...), but no extra keys for them. There is a mode switch button that switches between the two layouts, like the numlock key, but I'm not sure if this really is numlock. For some reason

Configure X: multiple keyboard layouts ?

2010-03-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'd like to configure X for multiple keyboard layouts, e. g.: - french - swiss french - german On my Linux box (running CentOS 5.4 and a dated version of X.org), the configuration for this looks like this : Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option

Re: Configure X: multiple keyboard layouts ?

2010-03-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:09:16AM +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I'd like to configure X for multiple keyboard layouts, e. g.: - french - swiss french - german On my Linux box (running CentOS 5.4 and a dated version of X.org), the configuration for this looks like this : Section

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