Subject: Re: Mac mini and keyboard
To: Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/27/2005 00:13:37
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Hello,

>>> Once I compiled that into the kernel, the keyboard works. Apparently
>>> the kernel does not pick up the keyboard until it is completely 
>>> loaded
>>> and finished autoconf...?
>> That sounds familiar - I'm pretty sure someone else(?) mentioned a
>> problem like this a while ago. As far as I know the kernel doesn't 
>> need
>> any userspace help to set up USB keyboards ( it would be pretty silly
>> if it would... ) so I'd consider this a bug and therefore a candidate
>> for send-pr. I guess there's already a PR about this but better have a
>> look.
>
> kern/28582
>
> I was told to man usb and use a flag in the kernel config file. When I
> brought up that this is not an ideal solution for machines with no 
> legacy
> ports like my current i386 machine, I never received a reply. It's
> possible that this is the same issue.

Interesting - for some reason I assumed this was macppc-specific. 
Probably because I used a Sun Type 6 USB keyboard with NetBSD/i386 for 
ages, but only with 1.6.x. On the other hand - I never encountered the 
root fs prompt.
Hmm, IPL_USB is the same as IPL_BIO, the PS/2 keyboard is on IPL_TTY 
which is considerably higher.

have fun
Michael
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