Subject: Re: USB problems in 1.4beta
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List: port-i386
Date: 05/09/1999 14:54:21
>>>>> "MD" == Matthias Drochner writes:

>> the problem was that kernel found two keyboard devices (wskbd0 on ukbd0
>> and wskbd1 on pckbd0) and always assigned wskbd1 (i.e. pckbd0) to
>> wsdisplay0. unfortunately, I didn't find the way how to assign preffered
>> keyboard to wsdisplay0.

MD> That's not possible - the console devices are always glued together.  The

	yes, I looked through the ws console source code and understood that
there is no way.

MD> right way would be that ukbd somehow recognizes that it is in emulation
MD> mode and that the device it emulates is the console keyboard. Then it can
MD> safely allocate the ISA keyboard's ressources and call itself console.
MD> (Even better if the ukbd could play console from the beginning of
MD> course.)

	uhm.. I didn't understand the idea. ws console code attaches
successfully ukbd0 to wsdisplay0 and it works just fine then but ISA keyboard
should be commented out in kernel configuration file.