Yes, this is a USB keyboard. If I plug in an external USB keyboard I get the same behaviour.
In the mean time, I have discovered that if I boot the machine with MacOSX and then reboot into FreeBSD, it is very likely that FreeBSD will have no problems with using the keyboard. I am sure that this behaviour is new in 8.0/stable. Now that I have this method, I am willing to dig deeper into this problem and collect more information for debugging. Any ideas on how to proceed? regards, On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Chris Rees <utis...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 8 February 2010 11:47, Jeremy Chadwick <free...@jdc.parodius.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:19:06PM +0530, Rohit Grover wrote: >>> I am using a very recent Freebsd 8.0 STABLE on a Macbook. I updated my >>> sources and rebuilt a kernel about 3 days ago. I was able to use the >>> machine fine once or twice after that. But now the keyboard has >>> stopped working. The boot program is able to use the keyboard, but the >>> kernel isn't, and I am unable to do anything useful with the machine >>> from the login screen. >>> >>> I had rebuilt the kernel twice with slightly varying settings, so I >>> don't have a copy of the previously working kernel in >>> /boot/kernel.old. >>> >>> It may not be easy for me to download a ISO image. Can someone please help? >> >> Is the keyboard USB? >> > > No Mac since late generation Powerbooks and iBooks has used ADB, so > yes, the Macbook > keyboard is USB. > > HTH, > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"