From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 18: 7:22 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 20BD337B48E for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:07:16 -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 B5DF743E3B for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:07:15 -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 D89CBA7C7; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:07:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daemon.velosystems.net (daemon.velosystems.net [192.168.1.11]) by jeeves.velosystems.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA6BA7C4; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:07:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: When is FreeBSD going to work properly with KVM switches? From: Steve Wingate To: paleph@pacbell.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200207161733.g6GHXW902103@pacbell.net> References: <200207161733.g6GHXW902103@pacbell.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 16 Jul 2002 18:07:12 -0700 Message-Id: <1026868032.291.1.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 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message