Keyboard hang on Lenovo T520

[gnn at freebsd.org]

At Fri, 3 Jun 2011 23:18:39 -0700,
Eivind Eklund wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I've just tried to install 8.2 amd64 on a newly bought Lenovo T520.  This
> hangs during keyboard probe with the last output on a verbose boot being
> 
> kbdc: RESET_KBD return code:00fa
> kbdc: RESET_KBD status:00aa
> 
> This looks like the same symptoms as in
> http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/svn-rev-197392-hangs-during-boot-td3926276.html,
> where Xin Li had a patch to revert the use of x86bios for atkbd.
> 
> Does this kind of thing still make sense (ie, should I try to build a new
> install medium with that patch applied)?
> 
> If so, is there something I can do to help make this work automatically?
>  (I'm out of touch and haven't done much with FreeBSD for a fair number of
> years, so I don't know what's going on development-wise.)

You could also do what I originally did.  Install using a USB
keyboard, build a new kernel with the patch, and go from there.

Just make sure to turn off the AT (internal) keyboard on boot.

Best,
George