From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] usb keyboard and mouse?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:21:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44A30F0C.7040207@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8d5ac03c91cd494cc0a71bf27054e5dc@vitanuova.com>
C H Forsyth wrote:
>>>Some BIOSes have an option with a name like "enable legacy USB" or
>>>"enable USB keyboard" that, if set, will simulate PS2 input from a USB
>>>keyboard or mouse.
>>
>>but that's only if your kernel uses BIOS calls, right?
>
>
> no, it works without that; it's intercepted at a lower level.
You just gotta love system management mode.
Fun. There's giant USB stacks in the bios'en nowadays. Sometimes they
work. Sometimes they don't. Well, often they don't, but ... that's
another story.
I had one machine recently that would work fine with the keyboard --
until the OS came up. then it stopped. And another machine that could
boot off USB key -- er, well, not THAT USB key, or that OTHER USB key,
or ... well, it had booted off SOME usb key at some phase of the moon,
in a timezone > 12 hours off ours. Woo hoo!
BIOS and USB -- what a combination! Sure to induce longing for the steppes.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-28 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-26 18:50 ISHWAR RATTAN
2006-06-26 19:22 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-06-27 0:19 ` geoff
2006-06-28 15:48 ` Artem Letko
2006-06-28 17:01 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-06-28 23:02 ` C H Forsyth
2006-06-28 23:21 ` Ronald G Minnich [this message]
2006-06-29 5:31 Mike Haertel
2006-06-29 8:23 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-06-29 11:55 ` Dan Cross
2006-06-29 15:02 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-29 23:50 ` Charles Forsyth
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