From: sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] USB keyboard
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:48:52 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <140e7ec30703212348s3a07e2d0g5aa7ad8799a3a36a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703151844.54276.gholmer@ameritech.net>
On 3/16/07, Glenn Holmer <gholmer@ameritech.net> wrote:
> Some time ago, I put Plan 9 on a machine with a USB mouse and somebody
> was able to help me add a few lines to plan9.ini to make it work. Now
> I've switched from PS/2 to USB keyboard on a machine with an existing
> Plan 9 installation. Is there a similar incantation that will make
> this keyboard work? (GRUB and Linux see it OK.)
AFAIK Plan 9 doesn't support USB keyboards. However, a lot of BIOSes
have some sort of "legacy" option to present a USB keyboard to the OS
as if it were PS2.
But, the fact that the keyboard works in grub suggests your BIOS is
already doing this (at least I didn't have any luck getting grub to
respond to a USB keyboard). Not sure why you're then running into
problems when Plan 9 boots... Maybe the BIOS hands off responsibility
after the OS initialises USB or something - worth a look through the
BIOS menus.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-22 6:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-15 23:44 Glenn Holmer
2007-03-16 1:29 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-16 1:34 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-22 6:48 ` sqweek [this message]
2007-03-22 9:01 ` C H Forsyth
2007-03-22 18:01 ` David Leimbach
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