From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 13:32:40 2003 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 46B0A37B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:32:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6777843EB2 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:32:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by mail.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0MLXpko002582; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:33:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E2F0DE7.6090801@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:32:23 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David.Bear@asu.edu Cc: "Justin P. Michel" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch References: <019301c2c253$e3613d30$0e0ea8c0@xerxes> <20030122142407.F6226@asu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 David Bear wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:21:41PM -0500, Justin P. Michel wrote: > >>Greetings, >> >>I have an electronic KVM that I want to use to switch between my crappy >>system, and my FreeBSD system. The keyboard and mouse work fine on my >>crappy system, but, on the FreeBSD system, they work fine on startup, but >>after switching back and forth only once, the mouse (LED mouse) starts > > I'm using a linksys kvm switch to go between linux (rh 7.3), freebsd > (4.6), and windows2000. The only problem I have is with win2000. The > switch must be set to that machine during windows startup or windows > doesn't think there's a mouse.. I acutally had a similar problem between two FreeBSD systems. I have a tendency to believe that whether or not a KVM works reliably is more dependent on the PC hardware than the OS. In our case, the workaround was to ensure that the KVM was set to the system that was actively being [re]booted. As long as that's done, we've had no problems. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message