Subject: Re: USB keyboard (mis-)support issues...
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: current-users
Date: 06/18/2003 09:08:13
I have such a machine, and it used to work fine.  I'll verify the status
later today.

    -- Lennart


Greywolf wrote:

>Greetings, and firstly a HUGE "Thank you VERY much" to everyone who
>helped
>get the USB code into its current state.
>
>That said, I'm experiencing some problems using a USB keyboard as the
>(supposedly) primary (read: only) keyboard on a PS/2-capable box:
>
>- Under standard conditions, it still "finds" the keyboard
>  as
>	wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
>  and then
>        wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1
>	wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0
>
>- The keyboard does not receive the encoding of "us.swapctrlcaps" at the
>  wscons configuration portion of the boot.
>
>- If I set it up manually with that encoding, switching virtual screens
>  no longer works; in fact, if I connect to the console screen, I am unable
>  to get back to the X screen from whence I switched.
>
>- This is equally a problem if I force the usb keyboard to be the console
>  keyboard (or do I have to declare it as
>
>	wskbd0 at ukbd? mux ? console ?
>??).
>
>- In either case, I cannot break into ddb with the usb keyboard.
>
>If this is a user-configuration error, I apologise and the PR I sent can
>be closed.
>
>Tangentially:
>
>The wscons.conf file only makes allowances for the mapping to be assigned
>to the console keyboard.  This makes zero sense to me; I have sent-pr
>on this issue as well.  The fix for it will probably require more thought
>than I gave it, but my (ahem) "egregious hack" works well, pro tempore.
>
>[ what?  Me?  Have issues?  NEVVAH! ]
>
>				--*greywolf;
>--
>NetBSD: preferred by Rocket Scientists and Moms!
>
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