On 12-Aug-01 Terry Lambert wrote:
> Mike Smith wrote:
>>
>> > :Finally, most keyboard/mouse/monitor switches don't work with
>> > :FreeBSD;
>>
>> This is actually not true. I'd doubt that you've even tried many of them.
*sigh*
It seems no one has investigated why we probe keyboards at all. Maybe if
people would do a little research, they would _learn_ something. Assuming that
we always have PS/2 keyboards present breaks the case of people who use *shock*
non-PS/2 keyboards like USB keyboards. Now, I'm sure that you think that
everyone should use PS/2 keyboards and that anyone who doesn't is just absolute
pure scum of the earth, but I don't share that same view. :-P
Seriously, if you go up to a FreeBSD box and hotplug a USB keyboard (which was
_designed_ for hotplug) it will work just fine. Now, there are a couple of
different ways to fix the problem:
1) Implement probing/detection for PS/2 keyboards post-boot. You can hack
this by having the atkbd0 driver always attach to IRQ 1, but not create and
export a kbd0 syscons keyboard driver until it gets an interrupt event from the
keyboard.
2) Rewrite the syscons keyboard layer so that we don't have a primary keyboard
that is always the current keyboard, but instead make it accept input from all
keyboards currently plugged into the system. With this you could go back to
assuming a PS/2 keyboard is always around as a hack.
Obviously Windows can handle USB keyboards, so why don't you put your money
where your mouth is and make FreeBSD work fine on hardware that Windows works
on.
Patches accepted.
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