USB keyboard in FreeBSD 10 amd64 installer

[Joshua Lokken]

I did verify that the system was 64-bit, and running a 64-bit OS now.


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <
m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Joshua Lokken <jrlokken at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Tried again with PS/2, hit Enter, then just waited.  Eventually, the boot
>> started, got a few lines into the ACPI stuff, then hung.  Looks like no
>> FreeBSD 10 amd64 on this box :(  I needed to upgrade, anyway...
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>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Joshua Lokken <jrlokken at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > I've have tried about everything possible at this point:
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>> > I use onboard audio, so no -- nVidia chipset for the NIC, audio and USB,
>> > all are ON.  USB works just great, until the installer screen loads --
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>> > I can do consistently is Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot, no other keypresses
>> > generate any signal.
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>> > In fact, I just tried with a PS/2 keyboard, and I've used those with
>> > FreeBSD forever, and _never_ had a problem.  Same behavior in this
>> case, no
>> > keypresses work except for Ctrl-Alt-Del.
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>> > I've cleared the CMOS and meticulously gone through every setting,
>> nothing
>> > I've found works so far.
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>> > I just dl'ed the i386 iso, just to test, but I've run out of blank media
>> > for the immediate time being, so I'll have another go at it tomorrow.
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>> > Does anyone know of any way to get past this installer screen without a
>> > working keyboard?  Or is there another installation method I could
>> > attempt?  Thanks again.
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>> > Joshua
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>> > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Matt Bettinger <iamatt at gmail.com>
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>> >> Did you disable audio in the bios?  On an Intel mini atx system I have
>> >> the onboard nic and  USB would not work with audio device disabled,
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>> >> On Apr 7, 2014 9:53 PM, "Erich Dollansky" <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com
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>> >>> Hi,
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>> >>> On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 19:43:06 -0700
>> >>> Joshua Lokken <jrlokken at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >>> > There are 3 USB-related BIOS options, basically:
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>> >>> > USB On/Off
>> >>> > Legacy USB On/Off
>> >>> > USB Mass Storage On/Off
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>> >>> > I tried with Legacy USB both on and off, same results.  I checked
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>> >>> > mobo manual, and all ports are USB 2.0/1.1, no BIOS updates
>> available.
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>> >>> Some keyboards need the legacy stuff. As all your ports are USB 2, it
>> >>> has to work.
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>> >>> Erich
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> What is your processor ?
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> If it may not support 64 bit , it will not possible to proceed after
> loading initial parts which they are in real mode ( 32 bits )  ( to my
> knowledge , if I am not wrong ) and it will fail when it starts 64 bit mode
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> You may test this by trying a 32 bit ISO .
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> Thank you very much .
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> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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