amd64/84693: Keyboard not recognized during first step of install (Elite model ECS 755-A/A2)

[Vivek Khera]

On May 15, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Craig Rodrigues wrote:

> Synopsis: Keyboard not recognized during first step of install  
> (Elite model ECS 755-A/A2)
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: rodrigc
> State-Changed-When: Mon May 15 13:58:06 UTC 2006
> State-Changed-Why:
> Are you using a USB keyboard?  Can you try installing
> FreeBSD 6.1?  USB keyboard support was improved in that
> release.

I upgraded a box from 6.0 to 6.1 which only has a USB keyboard on  
it.  However, for some idiotic reason Dell included an atkbdc  
controller even though there are no ports to connect to it.

I cannot boot into single user mode and get a console keyboard on the  
screen.  I tried the setting hint.atkbdc.0.disabled=1 and it made the  
kernel not find the atkdbc device but the USB keyboard is still  
unresponsive after BIOS and initial boot loader prompts.

I double checked that the console's hints file entries tell it to  
probe for keyboard until it finds one (flags 0x100) but it doesn't.   
I also make sure ukbd module is pre-loaded by loader.conf.  Not until  
devd runs does it connect the USB keyboard to the console, and I can  
then drop back to single user mode and complete the installworld, etc.

I didn't notice this earlier since all systems I upgraded during the  
RC cycle had serial consoles which worked fine.