From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 7:10:29 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 B10C237B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:10:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 344D143E3B for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:10:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tal@lumeta.com) Received: from lumeta.com (bgp422850bgs.union01.nj.comcast.net [68.36.185.124]) by mtaout03.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 13 2002)) with ESMTP id <0GZC005AJHTT9H@mtaout03.icomcast.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:05:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:06:59 -0400 From: Tom Limoncelli Subject: Re: When is FreeBSD going to work properly with KVM switches? To: Ruben de Groot Cc: Eric Olsen , Roberto Armenteros , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <3D342883.5090600@lumeta.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020512 Netscape/7.0b1 References: <200207152335.g6FNZwj83570@kpt-c-24-159-35-85.chartertn.net> <20020716100741.A39217@ei.bzerk.org> 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 Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 07:33:31PM -0400, Eric Olsen typed: > [...] > >>I have not had any problems switching between machines, EXCEPT that >>when a machine is booting up, the KVM must be set to that machine in >>order for recognition of the mouse and kbd to work properly. I find >>this to be true for Win, FBSD, and Linux. Once the machine has booted, >>I can switch away and back with no problems. I believe I was running >>FBSD 4.3 when I first installed the KVM. > > > This is a kernel configuration issue. Edit the line > > device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1 > > in your kernel configuration file, removing the "flags 0x1" part. Recompile > your kernel and reboot. The machine will now recognize your keyboard even > when it was switched away at boot time. Why isn't this the default for GENERIC kernels? And dare I ask... why is there even a flag for this situation? --tal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message