Re: USB keyboard problems

In message: <20040831215654.GF25134_at_odin.ac.hmc.edu>
            Brooks Davis <brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net> writes:
: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:55:26PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
: > On Friday 27 August 2004 11:29 pm, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > > In message: <20040828025829.GA51618_at_prophecy.dyndns.org>
: > >
: > >             Christopher Nehren <apeiron_at_comcast.net> writes:
: > > : On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 22:41:32 EDT, M. Warner Losh scribbled these
: > > :
: > > : curious markings:
: > > : > I guess it all depends on what you mean by recently.  I'd thought that
: > > : > some of my recent changes had broken it, but the breakage goes back
: > > : > further than that.  5.2 release isn't 'recent', and I fully believe
: > > : > that things may have changed since then...  I see a major uhid upgrade
: > > : > in that time frame, which may be the time of breakage...
: > > :
: > > : I understand your point, but that doesn't sit well with the fact that my
: > > : joypad broke *after* I updated from 5.2-CURRENT of ~ August 15 to
: > > : 6.0-CURRENT of ~ August 19. Logically, if it had been busted by the uhid
: > > : upgrade in March, then it could not possibly have worked with 5.2-CURRENT
: > > : (which it did, just as well as it did with 5.2.1-RELEASE[1]), correct?
: > > :
: > > : [1] Better, in fact, as the device wasn't detected at boot time in 5.2.1
: > > : but was in 5.2-CURRENT.
: > >
: > > Then I'm very confused...  Time to dig deeper...
: > 
: > Alfred turned the atkbd probing off a while back:
: > 
: > alfred      2004/04/01 13:48:31 PST
: > 
: >   FreeBSD src repository
: > 
: >   Modified files:
: >     sys/i386/conf        GENERIC.hints
: >   Log:
: >   Fix booting with ps2 keyboards.
: > 
: >   Revision  Changes    Path
: >   1.13      +0 -1      src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints
: > 
: > This didn't actually affect booting with a PS/2 keyboard, but only meant that 
: > you could boot up without a PS/2 keyboard and then plug it in, at the cost of 
: > breaking all uses of USB keyboards unless you use explicit kbdcontrol 
: > commands.  The instant-MFC was backed out of RELENG_4 at the request of re_at_ 
: > due to POLA.
: 
: The following entries in my devd.conf make things much happier on my
: laptop.  Maybe we should commit something like this to the default file:
: 
: # When a keyboard arrives, attach it as the console keyboard
: attach 100 {
: 	device-name "ukbd0";
: 	action "test -c /dev/kbd1 && kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1 < /dev/console";
: }
: detach 100 {
: 	device-name "ukbd0";
: 	action "kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd0 < /dev/console";
: }
: 
: It has the slightly weird effect that the built in keyboard stops
: working for console when you plug a USB keyboard in, but IMO that's less
: lame then the current setup.

Agreed.  The irony is that the keyboard mux in the kernel wouldn't
take much to be 'all physical keyboards feed the same logical
keyboard' rather than 'ONE keyboard feeds the logical keyboard'.  Just
no one has gone and done it.

Warner