On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 01:22:20AM +0000, TSS wrote:
> Greetings from a noob,
> 
> With my OpenBSD beginner's luck I am able to dependably panic my 7.6
> install if I enable a moderately elaborate tunnelling situation. I would
> love to follow the instructions at https://www.openbsd.org/ddb.html to
> share crash information, but I find that although the computer presents
> a ddb prompt on the display, my USB keyboard no longer works.
> 
> I'm using a very boring small-form-factor Dell PC that only presents USB
> ports to the world: there's no PS/2 port on the machine nor a serial
> port. Some mystery meat part I can see on Amazon promises to give you
> serial if you plug it into a header on the mainboard, but I don't feel
> like spending the 25 quid yet: maybe there's another way to get the
> information for a bug report.
> 
> So, is there another way? Could there be a way to force ddb to continue
> using the USB keyboard, for example?

machdep.forceukbd=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf

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