From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60703221101p32174e79s13b9c7489457062@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:01:31 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] USB keyboard In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <140e7ec30703212348s3a07e2d0g5aa7ad8799a3a36a@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2e1ce6c6-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3/22/07, C H Forsyth 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. :-)