From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44A30F0C.7040207@lanl.gov> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:21:48 -0600 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] usb keyboard and mouse? References: <8d5ac03c91cd494cc0a71bf27054e5dc@vitanuova.com> In-Reply-To: <8d5ac03c91cd494cc0a71bf27054e5dc@vitanuova.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6fea3b0e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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