[haiku-development] Re: Lacking the ohci driver prevents ps/2 mouse and keyboard from working

  • From: "Euan Kirkhope" <euan.kirkhope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 10:03:01 +0000

On 06/03/2008, Euan Kirkhope <euan.kirkhope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/03/2008, salierix <salierix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >
>  > A few days ago I posted ticket #1891 explaining that I had no mouse or
>  > keyboard input in Haiku on real hardware. Well after
>  > compiling/installing/booting about 20+ different revisions I finally 
> tracked
>  > the problem all the way to r22521
>  > (http://dev.haiku-os.org/changeset/22521) from 5 months
>  > ago. For some reason lacking the ohci driver prevents my ps/2 mouse and
>  > keyboard from working and so adding it to the current revision completely
>  > fixes the problem.
>  >
>  > Does anyone have an idea about what could be going on here? How could not
>  > having the ohci driver on the image cause any problems with ps/2?
>  >
>  > Later,
>  > ~salierix
>  >
>  >
>
>
> It probably takes over control of the USB controller, and disables
>  Bios Legacy emulation.
>
>
>  Euan
>

Sorry not had morning coffee yet...  That is indeed odd if PS2 devices
don't work without OHCI...

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