From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@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 11:01:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60703221101p32174e79s13b9c7489457062@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a13dca0f1ee40c6ae918bbc3d8fd5d12@vitanuova.com>
On 3/22/07, C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com> wrote:
> the usb driver switches off legacy mode, so if you need
> that, and don't need any other usb devices, try not including
> the usb driver and leave legacy mode on in the bios.
> if it's a terminal and usb mouse is needed too, that might
> not work (legacy mode is supposed to support the mouse too
> so that DOS will work, but i don't think i've tried it myself).
>
I've had no luck on some BIOSes with using legacy mode for both
keyboard and mouse. I distinctly remember having to pick one or the
other to get FreeBSD to work. But that was many years ago, and on a
different machine. :-)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-22 18:01 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
2007-03-22 9:01 ` C H Forsyth
2007-03-22 18:01 ` David Leimbach [this message]
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