[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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