[GLLUG] USB Keyboards
Sean
picasso@madflower.com
Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:54:00 -0500 (EST)
Good enough reason for me!
I bet Apple screwed around with something else on the keyboard besides the
command and alt keys, because they used to have a power button on them
too.
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Adam McDougall wrote:
> Cuz the manpage says so? :)
>
> To change the default console keyboard to the another keyboard, for exam-
> ple the first USB keyboard (see ukbd(4)), use the following commands.
>
> kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1 < /dev/console
> BUGS
> Report when found.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:41:11AM -0500, Sean wrote:
>
> Just out of curiousity why wouldnt it be:
> kbdcontrol -k /dev/ukbd0
>
> and your option and command keys will probably be flip flopped which is
> much easier to remap in freebsd then any MacOS..
>
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Adam McDougall wrote:
>
> > Are you root? Does /dev/kbd1 exist? does truss kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1
> > reveal anything interesting?
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 02:48:49AM -0500, Mike Szumlinski wrote:
> >
> > This is what I get when I search for the kb.
> >
> > bash-2.05$ dmesg | grep kbd
> > atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
> > atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
> > kbd0 at atkbd0
> > psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
> > ukbd0: Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard, rev 1.10/1.22, addr 4,
> > iclass 3/1
> > kbd1 at ukbd0
> >
> > but when I try kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1, I get this:
> >
> > kbd1
> > ukbd0, type:generic (0)
> > kbdcontrol: unable to set keyboard: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> >
> > Any ideas? Is it a driver issue? I see the I/O control warning, but I have
> > no clue what that means.
> >
> > Adam McDougall wrote:
> >
> > > Yes.
> > > You must use kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd0 where 0 is the device number
> > > of keyboard you want to use for the console. dmesg | grep kbd
> > > should show you what is available. Did it even detect the keyboard?
> > > You must be running usbd. If you do not have usb support in your
> > > kernel, I believe usbd will take care of loading the drivers.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 02:32:06AM -0500, Mike Szumlinski wrote:
> > >
> > > Has anyone had any luck using USB keyboards under FreeBSD? I have an
> > > Apple Pro keyboard that I much prefer to my $5 AT keyboard. Any
> > > suggestions (all I've done so far is plug it in and it didn't work). My
> > > USB mouse works fine, so I know USB is working
> > >
> > > -Mike
> > >
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