From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <140e7ec30703212348s3a07e2d0g5aa7ad8799a3a36a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:48:52 +0900 From: sqweek To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] USB keyboard In-Reply-To: <200703151844.54276.gholmer@ameritech.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200703151844.54276.gholmer@ameritech.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2d69fb42-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3/16/07, Glenn Holmer 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.