From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 12 2:28:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08BA937B407; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 02:28:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.137.140.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.137.140]) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA04813; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 02:28:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B764C48.E7538995@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 02:28:40 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: Warner Losh , Richard Tobin , Kazutaka YOKOTA , Sean Kelly , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's aggressive keyboard probe/attach References: <200108120900.f7C903b82687@mass.dis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure FreeBSD would have to be a whole lot less > > agressive for the very useful "OmniView CAT6 KVM Extender" > > to work (luckily, FreeBSD doesn't probe the VGA port, so > > at least the monitor works, if not the keyboard/mouse 8-)): > > XFree86, OTOH, does. 8) > > What are the chances your Belkin junk fakes DDC properly? About the same chances that Cybex pays you $5 for every time you call Belkin "junk" in a public forum. DDC is supposed to not cause problems if connecting to non-DDC enabled devices. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message