Hi, I am using a very recent Freebsd 8.0 STABLE on a Macbook. I updated my sources and rebuilt a kernel about 3 days ago. I was able to use the machine fine once or twice after that. But now the keyboard has stopped working. The boot program is able to use the keyboard, but the kernel isn't, and I am unable to do anything useful with the machine from the login screen. I had rebuilt the kernel twice with slightly varying settings, so I don't have a copy of the previously working kernel in /boot/kernel.old. It may not be easy for me to download a ISO image. Can someone please help? Thanks.
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:19:06PM +0530, Rohit Grover wrote:> I am using a very recent Freebsd 8.0 STABLE on a Macbook. I updated my > sources and rebuilt a kernel about 3 days ago. I was able to use the > machine fine once or twice after that. But now the keyboard has > stopped working. The boot program is able to use the keyboard, but the > kernel isn't, and I am unable to do anything useful with the machine > from the login screen. > > I had rebuilt the kernel twice with slightly varying settings, so I > don't have a copy of the previously working kernel in > /boot/kernel.old. > > It may not be easy for me to download a ISO image. Can someone please help?Is the keyboard USB? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
On 10 February 2010 07:10, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> wrote:> > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Rohit Grover <rgrover1@gmail.com> wrote: > Initially start FreeBSD and dump all of the related circuit register values > . This may require a key board . Problem is to override this requirement . > If in the system there is also a PS/2 key board slot , a PS/2 keyboard may > be utilized . Another way may be a shell script or program starting on boot > automatically to dump the required values . In that case , a key board may > not be required .There are no PS/2 or any other legacy connectors on any Intel Mac. USB only (firewire keyboards are a rarity, but maybe worth a try!) Chris