From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 7:31:13 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 11BAA37B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:31:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jeeves.velosystems.net (wsip68-15-85-238.oc.oc.cox.net [68.15.85.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F35E43E64 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:31:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@velosystems.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.velosystems.net [127.0.0.1]) by jeeves.velosystems.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A410BA7C4; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:31:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daemon.velosystems.net (daemon.velosystems.net [192.168.1.11]) by jeeves.velosystems.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10CACA524; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:31:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: When is FreeBSD going to work properly with KVM switches? From: Steve Wingate To: Tom Limoncelli Cc: Ruben de Groot , Eric Olsen , Roberto Armenteros , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3D342883.5090600@lumeta.com> References: <200207152335.g6FNZwj83570@kpt-c-24-159-35-85.chartertn.net> <20020716100741.A39217@ei.bzerk.org> <3D342883.5090600@lumeta.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 16 Jul 2002 07:31:05 -0700 Message-Id: <1026829866.56263.5.camel@daemon.velosystems.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 07:06, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > 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? Probably because it isn't always needed, and in my case didn't work anyway. The problem is the mouse, imo. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message