On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 06:10:43PM +0100, Stefan Kell wrote: > I want to use this machine as a dual-boot system together with windows. It > is connected to a standard PS2-KVM, no USB-mouse or keyboard. Installation > of both Windows and OpenBSD 4.0 from CDs worked without any problems. But > now if I boot OpenBSD from harddisk the keyboard is locked at the login > prompt. > > But I can use the keyboard in the BIOS, for the boot-manager, with the > standard boot-prompt of OpenBSD and within UKC. So something later in the > bootprocess is locking the keyboard. > > I tried to use X-Windows but there is the problem that the mouse is not > responding. Maybe this is related? > > Any sugestions?
On perhaps 10-20% of the times I boot my KVM'd OpenBSD setup, a similar thing happens. The keyboard works well at UKC> and while the console is booting. As soon as X is launched (with kdm running) the keyboard sometimes is totally dead. Rebooting usually cures the problem and this is easily done via the mouse (which still works) with kdm. So in my case, it's irritating, but not a serious enough problem to really worry about. Have you tried rebooting when the keyboard locks? Every once in a while, I have to reboot 3 or 4 times to get things working so some persistence might pay off. Laurie -- http://tratt.net/laurie/ -- Personal http://convergepl.org/ -- The Converge programming language
