From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 14:34:14 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 CA45D37B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:34:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from m3designinc.com (m3designinc.com [66.136.220.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B849343ED8 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:34:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdunham@texas.net) Received: from [66.136.220.34] by m3srvr05 (ArGoSoft Mail Server Pro for WinNT/2000/XP, Version 1.8 (1.8.1.7)); Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:33:48 -0600 From: jdunham@texas.net Organization: M3 Design, Inc. To: Bill Moran Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:33:42 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3E2EC7E6.2081.44295386@localhost> In-reply-to: <3E2F0DE7.6090801@potentialtech.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body 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 22 Jan 2003 at 16:32, Bill Moran wrote: > David Bear wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:21:41PM -0500, Justin P. Michel wrote: > > > >>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. I've used a number of different brands of KVM and have had the best success with the IOGear MiniView SE, in 2-, 4-, and 8-port versions. The only problem I've seen has been that my old FreeBSD 2.2.6 system occasionally won't boot properly unless the KVM is set to it, but that seems to occur less than 10% of the time. I've seen a LOT of trouble with some other brands of KVM, though I'm sure there are other good ones out there. I agree that hardware, particularly the KVM itself, is a bigger factor than the OS. -- Jerry Dunham M3 Design, Inc. jdunham@m3designinc.com (512) 218-8858 jdunham@texas.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message