Re: USB Keyboard / Dell Optiplex 745 / FreeBSD 6.2

[Nico -telmich- Schottelius]

Reid Linnemann [Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 10:32:48AM -0500]:
 I've never know what causes this, but in single user mode some USB 
 keyboards on some systems refuse to work. I myself work on an Optiplex 
 GX270 that exhibits the same behavior. You can get around it easily enough 
 though; at the loader, set hint.atkbd0.disabled=1 and then boot, the 
 problem should go away.

Does not work here, I gave up with this dell beast and I am using
another old pc for testing.

Nico

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Re: USB Keyboard / Dell Optiplex 745 / FreeBSD 6.2

[Reid Linnemann]

Written by Nico -telmich- Schottelius on 07/20/07 09:45

Hello!

Just wanted to confirm that the usb-keyboard is not working in the
installer with Dell Optiplex 745 and FreeBSD 6.2.
Though it works in the boot loader, but stops working (num lock light
is set to off) when usb support is enabled by FreeBSD.

I also tried booting with verbose logging on, but did not
see an error, only that FreeBSD detects atkbd0, although there
is no ps/2 port (so bios ps/2 emulation).

There are many postings about the whole optiplex series out there
having that problem, but there seems no solution until today.

Or does anyone else know more about that?

Nico



I've never know what causes this, but in single user mode some USB 
keyboards on some systems refuse to work. I myself work on an Optiplex 
GX270 that exhibits the same behavior. You can get around it easily 
enough though; at the loader, set hint.atkbd0.disabled=1 and then boot, 
the problem should go away.

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