Subject: USB keyboard (mis-)support issues...
To: NetBSD Current Users <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/17/2003 22:04:33
Greetings, and firstly a HUGE "Thank you VERY much" to everyone who
helped
get the USB code into its current state.
That said, I'm experiencing some problems using a USB keyboard as the
(supposedly) primary (read: only) keyboard on a PS/2-capable box:
- Under standard conditions, it still "finds" the keyboard
as
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
and then
wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1
wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0
- The keyboard does not receive the encoding of "us.swapctrlcaps" at the
wscons configuration portion of the boot.
- If I set it up manually with that encoding, switching virtual screens
no longer works; in fact, if I connect to the console screen, I am unable
to get back to the X screen from whence I switched.
- This is equally a problem if I force the usb keyboard to be the console
keyboard (or do I have to declare it as
wskbd0 at ukbd? mux ? console ?
??).
- In either case, I cannot break into ddb with the usb keyboard.
If this is a user-configuration error, I apologise and the PR I sent can
be closed.
Tangentially:
The wscons.conf file only makes allowances for the mapping to be assigned
to the console keyboard. This makes zero sense to me; I have sent-pr
on this issue as well. The fix for it will probably require more thought
than I gave it, but my (ahem) "egregious hack" works well, pro tempore.
[ what? Me? Have issues? NEVVAH! ]
--*greywolf;
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