If it is the same kind of acer as I have you may be in luck,
hidden away on the back panel hidden behind a sticker and a
metal knockout there are 2 ps/2 style connectors. Pull the
top off of your box and see if you have them (near the parrellel
port) I have been running -current on this box for a month
with no problems other than having to use a normal keyboard for
the install.
also Nick Himba
>Seeing that your USB controller fails to work properly when the FreeBSD
>kernel takes over, I bet somewhere there is a problem with shared
>interrupts.
>Because a USB keyboard here works either with USB support or without USB
>support compiled in.
I had the same problem on my box, Ie. the usb controler wont do
emulation at boot under freebsd, strangly the same box ran linux
for 6 months witout the usb stack loaded and the keyboard worked
fine, it just broke when I loaded the stack. works fine now as
long as my freebsd kernel has usb enabled.
Bob
On Feb 28, The Matrix made John Reynolds~ say,
>
>[forwarded from -questions to the above groups because this seems to be a
>legit "problem" and I wanted the "right eyes" in -current to see it. ]
>
>------- start of forwarded message -------
>From: "John Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Installation floppies and USB
>Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 21:19:50 EST
>
>I have a system with only a *USB* keyboard port (no PS/2 or AT-style ports).
> When I boot the installation floppies I get the message:
> keyboard:no
>After reading errata,release notes, etc., I learned that I should hit
>'enter' and type '-Dh' at the prompt, which I did. Now the installation
>proceeds until the kernel is booted and the kernel configuration menu is
>displayed (with 3 options: skip config, full-screen, CLI-mode). At that
>point my keyboard becomes unusable. I believe that this may be because the
>kernel ('GENERIC'?) doesn't include USB support. USB support is supposed to
>be compiled in *after* an install.
>
>For my system, this is unacceptable. I now have a catch-22: I can't get USB
>support until the kernel is recompiled, and I can't recompile the kernel
>unless I can use the keyboard to install FreeBSD.
>
>My system was created by a major PC Manufacturer (Acer) and I'm sure that
>they have sold thousands like it. I'm sure that they are not/will not be
>the only manufacturer to create USB-only systems. My system uses Human
>Interface Devices (HID) USB. It is *CRUCIAL* that USB keyboards be
>recognized "out-of-the-box" for current and future systems that only support
>USB keyboards.
>
>QUESTION: Are there work currently andy arounds/solutions in FreeBSD? When
>can USB be available "out-of-the-box?" (I was hoping it would be in 4.0)
>Lastly, the NetBSD install floppy recognizes my keyboard and lets me use it
>during the install. Is there any possible workaround that includes booting
>the NetBSD install disk, or installing FreeBSD over/after NetBSD?
>
>NOTE: There has already been at least one other FreeBSD newbie who has
>encountered this problem (also with an Acer box), and there seems to be a
>fair amount of USB questions/discussion online.
>
>Any info/help is greatly appreciated
>
>John
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>______________________________________________________
>Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
>
>
>
>To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
>
>------- end of forwarded message -------
>
>--
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>| John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction |
>| Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 |
>| [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ |
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
>
>To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
>
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
