[9fans] USB keyboard error

[9fans] USB keyboard error

[Matt Adams]

Folks:

I have recently installed Plan 9 on a Dell Optiplex GX200.  So far
everything seems to be working.  This is my first foray into Plan 9 from
many years with Linux & BSD and I am already very excited... it's almost
like having a new child!

This computer is attached to a KVM that includes USB keyboard & mouse
via a single USB attachment to the Dell (the KVM is a USB hub,
obviously).

The mouse seems to work just fine but when I'm in rio and hit a key on
the USB keyboard I get the following error:

usb/kb: /dev/kbin: unknown device in # filename

Would someone be able to decipher this for me?  Is there something I can
do with this information to get my USB keyboard to work?  I'm not afraid
of a little poking around provided someone can point me in the right
direction (I've read other messages on the mailing list archives that
indicate that USB keyboard support is somewhat spotty).

I get the same error regardless of whether USB Emulation is enabled in
the BIOS.


Thanks in advance,

Matt

Re: [9fans] USB keyboard error

[Anthony Martin]

term% cat /dev/drivers | grep kbin # kbin(3)

Re: [9fans] USB keyboard error

[Anthony Martin]

> term% cat /dev/drivers | grep kbin # kbin(3)

Sorry about the terseness. I meant to also say that
you'll have to add the kbin device to your kernel
configuration and recompile. I don't think it's in
the default.

     Anthony

Re: [9fans] USB keyboard error

[erik quanstrom]

> This computer is attached to a KVM that includes USB keyboard & mouse
> via a single USB attachment to the Dell (the KVM is a USB hub,
> obviously).
>
> The mouse seems to work just fine but when I'm in rio and hit a key on
> the USB keyboard I get the following error:
>
> usb/kb: /dev/kbin: unknown device in # filename

it seems the prior diagnosis is correct.  the cpu kernels
cpu, cpuf don't have the kbin device built in.

however i'm a little confused.  do you start rio automaticly
on your cpu server?

since it's come up, what's the rationale for making the kbin device
'#Ι' (capitol iota)?  since 'Ι' looks just like 'I' with many fonts, i
find it easy to confuse them.

- erik
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Re: [9fans] USB keyboard error

[Sander van Dijk]

On 7/13/08, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> it seems the prior diagnosis is correct.  the cpu kernels
> cpu, cpuf don't have the kbin device built in.
>
> however i'm a little confused.  do you start rio automaticly
> on your cpu server?

It seems that pcf doesn't have the kbin device built in either.

Greetings, Sander.

Re: [9fans] USB keyboard error

[Matt Adams]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:52:54AM -0700, Anthony Martin wrote:

> > term% cat /dev/drivers | grep kbin # kbin(3)
>
> Sorry about the terseness. I meant to also say that
> you'll have to add the kbin device to your kernel
> configuration and recompile. I don't think it's in
> the default.

Makes sense.  Thanks, Anthony!


Matt

Re: [9fans] USB keyboard error

[Matt Adams]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 07:27:29AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:

> > This computer is attached to a KVM that includes USB keyboard & mouse
> > via a single USB attachment to the Dell (the KVM is a USB hub,
> > obviously).
> >
> > The mouse seems to work just fine but when I'm in rio and hit a key on
> > the USB keyboard I get the following error:
> >
> > usb/kb: /dev/kbin: unknown device in # filename
>
> it seems the prior diagnosis is correct.  the cpu kernels
> cpu, cpuf don't have the kbin device built in.
>
> however i'm a little confused.  do you start rio automaticly
> on your cpu server?

I only have one Plan 9 installation thus far.  It's all sitting on one
box.

> since it's come up, what's the rationale for making the kbin device
> '#Ι' (capitol iota)?  since 'Ι' looks just like 'I' with many fonts, i
> find it easy to confuse them.

Eh?


Matt

Re: [9fans] USB keyboard error

[geoff]

I've added kbin to pcf, so the set of distributed kernels with kbin in
them is now pc, pccd, pcdisk and pcf.  pcflop is excluded to try to
keep its size down so that it will continue to fit on a floppy, though
I suspect that that struggle will soon be lost and we'll have to use
CDs for initial installation.  There's already quite a bit missing
from pcflop.

We have some new machines on order and will need to revise the usb
code for them.

Re: [9fans] USB keyboard error

[Sander van Dijk]

On 7/13/08, geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com <geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
> I've added kbin to pcf, so the set of distributed kernels with kbin in
> them is now pc, pccd, pcdisk and pcf.

I noticed, after a pull, that the corresponding binaries haven't been
updated. Just thought I'd mention it, in case they were
unintentionally left out.

Greetings, Sander.