Hello,
I tried to install OS4.2 on my "new" computer (P3, 600 MHz. Siemens Scenic 6xx, Siemens Mainboard D1107).
I booted from the disk, selected drivers (SCSIAHA2940) but when the system asks for the harddisk to use or when I try to boot into single user (open -s at boot: ), the keyboard does not response anymore to any keystrokes.
I also used a different hard disk, where I installed OS4.2 from my old computer, but when I try to boot into single user mode, I get the same behaviour. When I boot into the system(to loginwindow), the keyboard will be usable most of the time, but not always.
This is not the problem with the PS2Mouse driver, there is no difference whether I have the mouse driver installed or not (actually I don't have the PS2Mouse on the second harddisk).
So my question is:
is there an alternative PS2Keyboard driver available? Is the source code of the original driver available somewhere, which I could try to play with?
Does anyone have experienced this or knows of a solution?
regards,
winfried
Had the same problem on my FSC Scenic boxes during the installation of OPENSTEP.
The following procedure did the trick for me:
- disable or enable USB legacy support, depends on the actual setting (BIOS settings)
- start the installation process until the keyboard freezes
- reboot, repeat step 1, start the installation once again.
Don´t ask me why, but worked on various FSC boxes (600, xB, D, xS) for me.
Thanks a lot, that really worked! I hate that black magic :twisted:
In my case, it was enough to enable on USB legacy support. After that, I was able to use the keyboard (was disabled, originally).
You say it! Took me quite some time to figure back those days... Works without hassles on older FSC boxes like the D7.
Even the onboard Matrox gfx chips of the FSCs can used with Mirko´s driver.
I just stumbled over another problem with my keyboard:
If I switch to upper case mode with caps lock and release it afterwards (pressing caps lock twice), the keyboard and mouse get totally frozen and are unusable until reboot. The system is working normally, I can log in via telnet from a remote system but can't use the console. Restarting the loginwindow and windowserver won't solve this also.
Has anyone experienced this already? May be its possible, to disable or remap the caps lock key via keyboard.app, if nothing works.
It would also be helpful to trace the keycodes, possibly like "xev" on an X window system, does anybody know such a tool?