From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 12 1:55:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smp.kyx.net (cr95838-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.134.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CFCF37BC4E for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 01:55:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dr@smp.kyx.net) Received: by smp.kyx.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id 35E703A26B; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 01:53:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Dragos Ruiu Organization: kyx.net To: Bigwillie , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Data Switch kills Mouse(PS/2) Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 01:52:32 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <4.2.0.58.20000811235229.00a87950@mail-hub.optonline.net> <4.2.0.58.20000812015448.00a7f100@mail-hub.optonline.net> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000812015448.00a7f100@mail-hub.optonline.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00081201535719.31978@smp.kyx.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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?? -- dursec.com ltd. / kyx.net - we're from the future http://www.dursec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message