Re: Keyboard not working Dell PE 1850 and DRAC cards..

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:04:44PM +0100, Stefan Cars wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Thanks for the info, where can I find more information on how to do that 
> ? Could you provide an example of how the devd.conf (or what files 
> needed to be changed) would look ?

The devd.conf changes should be a fairly simple modification of the
existing rules (see "When a USB keyboard arrives") in the file.  Mostly
changing 1 to 2 and 0 to 1.  You'll want to set the rc.conf variable
"keyboard" to /dev/kdb1 so it uses the DRAC keyboard by default.

-- Brooks

> 
> Kind Regards,
> Stefan Cars
> 
> 
> Brooks Davis wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:49:43PM +0100, Stefan Cars wrote:
> >
> >>Hi!
> >>
> >>I have some trouble using keyboards (both PS/2 and/or USB) on our 15 new 
> >>PE 1850's. The installation goes fine (the PS/2 works, USB does not) and 
> >>single user works OK (with PS/2), but normal boot does not work, it 
> >>seems it attaches the keyboard to the DRAC cards (it identifies itself 
> >>as ukbd0). I found a post regarding this 
> >>(http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-September/038879.html). 
> >>
> >>My question is then, is there anyway I can make this work so I can use a 
> >>regular keyboard (PS/2 or USB) and the DRAC, maybe by fixing so when i 
> >>attach a USB it disconnectes the DRAC and attaches the USB ?. Disable 
> >>the keyboard for the DRAC is something I don't want to do since the 
> >>reason we bought DRACS to them is the possibility to control them 
> >>remote, I have some pressure of people wanting us to run RedHat on them 
> >>and I don't want to be forced to do that becuase of this stupid little 
> >>thing.
> >
> >
> >The correct behavior is currently unobtainable, but you may be able to
> >get a sufficent approximation working.  At the moment, you'll only be
> >able to use the PS/2 keyboard in single user mode because syscons is
> >going to always pick it and you can't switch unless you have a keyboard
> >or are in multi-user mode.  However, in multiuser you can change
> >devd.conf to have a different behavior.  It would be fairly simple to
> >make /dev/kbd1 the primary keyboard and have the appearence of ukbd1
> >cause /dev/kdb2 to become and primary.
> >
> >Hopefully we'll have a real solution soon, but I haven't found the time
> >to work on it as much as I'd like.
> >
> >-- Brooks
> >
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