Subject: Re: kern/32266: deadlocks with 3.99.13/i386
To: None <netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Sean Davis <dive-nb@endersgame.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/08/2005 21:11:15
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 07:05:43PM +0100, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 07:32:13AM -0500, Sean Davis wrote:
> [..]
> > Will this work with a USB keyboard? I remember reading about issues with ddb
> > and USB keyboards, and haven't looked to see if they've been solved (forgot
> > the PR #)
> 
> From earlier this week:
> : Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:25:29 +0100 
> : From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
> : Subject: Re: can't get into debugger with usb only Dell GX620
> : To: Tracy Di Marco White <netbsd@gendalia.org>
> : CC: current-users@NetBSD.org
> : 
> : The problem is that the PS/2 keyboard driver is broken.
> : As soon as you kernel has pckbc configured the driver
> : will attach without verifying that there actually is
> : a PS/2 controller there.  And it will become the console
> : keyboard.
> : 
> : If you create a custom kernel without pckbd and pckbc
> : then the usb keyboard gets a chance and it will become
> : console. 
> 
> Bernd
> 

Yes, that's the problem I was referring to. My main issue since switching to
a USB keyboard is that the system speaker (aka sysbeep, I suppose) no longer
does anything. It'll attach fine at pcppi at acpi or pcppi at isa (which
uses pckbc), but nothing I do can generate a beep anymore. I've verified
that the motherboard speaker wiring is correct, other than that, I'm out of
ideas.