From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 12:37:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD6CE37B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:37:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1649543E75 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:37:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:37:28 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:37:27 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: When is FreeBSD going to work properly with KVM switches? Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Message-ID: <20020717193728725.AAA1056@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: 16 Jul 2002 18:07:12 -0700 > From: Steve Wingate > > On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 10:33, paleph@pacbell.net wrote: > > > > I also have the problem that the KVM must be set to the machine being booted > > in order for the mouse and keyboard to work properly. This is a know problem > > and there was discussion on it. The problem seems to have appeared with 4.2. > > I saw a fix in the freebsd-stable archives: > > > > Message: 4695118, > > FROM: John Baldwin, > > DATE: 11/20/2000 16:43:35 > > SUBJECT: RE: 4.2 Showstopper? Belkin KVM switch problems with FreeBSD 4.2 > > > > Basically the proposed solution was to remove the `flags 0x1' from the > > atkbd0 device line in the i386/conf/file > > > > This fixed the problem I was having with the Omni Cube 4-Port. I have > > not checked if this problem still occurs with 4.6. > > > > Actually, if one searches through the archives you'll find the mouse/kvm > issue dates back to the 3.x days. Apparently it isn't a high priority so > I wouldn't hold my breath for an always working fix. I really really really wouldn't be so quick to assume the problem is FreeBSD. In my experience, Belkin's are not very good KVMs, I won't use them any more, personally. I've had problems with them not correctly initializing keyboard or mouse ports with Windows as well. Never had a problem with FreeBSD and KVM switches, personally. If you want a good KVM, stick with either Avocent (my personal preference - used to be Cybex and Apex), Raritan, Rose, or one of the companies that OEMs the Avocent switches. (ie Compaq, HP, Dell) The cheapo KVMs are cheap for a reason. (Then you've got "RichardH" saying Belkin's are overpriced, LOL.. well I never tried D-link KVMs, maybe they're OK for a cheapo model :-) Phil -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message