Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-10 Thread Rohit Grover
Thanks for replying. I would like to pursue this problem. I have verified that this problem doesn't happen with 8.0/RELEASE, and there are some improvements in 8.0/STABLE which I need, so it is very important for me to be able to use the latest 8.0/STABLE. My opinion is that MacOSX is

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 10/02/2010 13:35 Rohit Grover said the following: Thanks for replying. I would like to pursue this problem. I have verified that this problem doesn't happen with 8.0/RELEASE, and there are some improvements in 8.0/STABLE which I need, so it is very important for me to be able to use the

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-10 Thread Chris Rees
On 10 February 2010 07:10, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Rohit Grover rgrov...@gmail.com wrote: Initially start FreeBSD and dump all of the related circuit register values . This may require a key board . Problem is to override this

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-10 Thread Rohit Grover
I added hw.pci.usb_early_takeover=0 to /boot/loader.conf, but it hasn't made any reliable difference. I am not resorting to a binary search of revisions along stable/8.0 to find the culprit, but this is going to be a very slow and wasteful process--it takes me multiple boots (first into MacOSx

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-10 Thread Rohit Grover
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Rohit Grover rgrov...@gmail.com wrote: I am not resorting to a binary search of revisions along stable/8.0 to Oops; typo above. I AM going to binary search revisions along stable/8.0 So far, I have also discovered that the first reboot following a kernel

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-09 Thread Chris Rees
On 8 February 2010 11:47, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:19:06PM +0530, Rohit Grover wrote: I am using a very recent Freebsd 8.0 STABLE on a Macbook. I updated my sources and rebuilt a kernel about 3 days ago. I was able to use the machine fine once

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-09 Thread Rohit Grover
Yes, this is a USB keyboard. If I plug in an external USB keyboard I get the same behaviour. In the mean time, I have discovered that if I boot the machine with MacOSX and then reboot into FreeBSD, it is very likely that FreeBSD will have no problems with using the keyboard. I am sure that this

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-09 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Rohit Grover rgrov...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, this is a USB keyboard. If I plug in an external USB keyboard I get the same behaviour. In the mean time, I have discovered that if I boot the machine with MacOSX and then reboot into FreeBSD, it is very likely that

Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-08 Thread Rohit Grover
Hi, I am using a very recent Freebsd 8.0 STABLE on a Macbook. I updated my sources and rebuilt a kernel about 3 days ago. I was able to use the machine fine once or twice after that. But now the keyboard has stopped working. The boot program is able to use the keyboard, but the kernel isn't, and

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:19:06PM +0530, Rohit Grover wrote: I am using a very recent Freebsd 8.0 STABLE on a Macbook. I updated my sources and rebuilt a kernel about 3 days ago. I was able to use the machine fine once or twice after that. But now the keyboard has stopped working. The boot