On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 19:08 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 from CD on Dell Precision 380. > The machine has a PS/2 keyboard on it. The keyboard works fine in the > BIOS, and at the Booting... prompt. However, once sysinstall comes up, > the keyboard is dead. Nothing I type will be accepted. The machine > does not appear to be panicked or hung. > > I switched from vidconsole to comconsole, and sysinstall works, so > perhaps this has something to do with the new keyboard mux? > > Dmesg is at http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/NEW-SHUMAI.dmesg More news on this. After getting 6.0-BETA2 installed from the serial console, I found that _any_ input on the PS/2 port causes the machine to lock up hard. I can break into the debugger, but as soon as I hit any key on the PS/2 keyboard, the machine locks up. I can't type anything (even from the serial console). The only way out is to do a hard reset. I've tried building a custom kernel and disabling apic and acpi. Nothing will get 6.0 to work with any locally attached keyboard. I also found a CD of 5.4-RC3, which boots perfectly on this machine with working PS/2 and USB keyboards. So, I thought maybe the kbdmux was the problem. I reverted the kbd code to original RELENG_6 version (kbd.c rev. 1.43 and kbdreg.h rev. 1.17), and the keyboard works once again. Anything else I can try to debug this problem with kbdmux further? Thanks. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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