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Date:      Sat, 12 Aug 2000 01:52:32 -0700
From:      Dragos Ruiu <dr@dursec.com>
To:        Bigwillie <mvanberk@optonline.net>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Data Switch kills Mouse(PS/2)
Message-ID:  <00081201535719.31978@smp.kyx.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000812015448.00a7f100@mail-hub.optonline.net>
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That was also a symptom of my problems... KB would block up,
but only after I switched to a Windows machine.....

The driver flags seem to have cured both problems.

good luck,
--dr

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Bigwillie wrote:
> Im going to look into that, but anyone has an idea about the keyboard 
> getting locked out.....
> 
> At 12:54 AM 8/12/00 , you wrote:
> >I used to have problems with the out of sync messages on my KVM too...
> >I was using logitech trackballs.... but there is a solution.  If you look
> >at the /dev/psm man page you'll see that there are two flags on the
> >driver you can set to avoid this issue.  I remember both worked...
> >I don't recall immediately what they were but I set my flags currently
> >to 0x0300 on the kernels I build and it works fine.
> >

> > > > > I've got a data switch to connect all my three PCs' Monitor, Mouse,
> > > >Keyboard
> > > > > together, so that I can use one Mouse(PS/2), Keyboard(PS/2) to 
> > control all
> > > > > of them.
> > > > > When I switch one to another, Everything's OK in win98 PC, but 
> > something
> > > > > wrong in my FreeBSD(4.0r). The following message appear:
> > > > >
> > > > >  kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0080 != 0000)
> > > > >
> > > > > then the mouse can not work in FreeBSD,
> > > > >
> > > > > why??

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