Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 15:59:18 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver (Solved!) Message-ID: <200101062359.f06NxIv11832@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010106141224.jdp@polstra.com> References: <XFMail.010106141224.jdp@polstra.com>
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In article <XFMail.010106141224.jdp@polstra.com>,
John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> wrote:
>
> I've got a Belkin OmniView Pro 8-Port KVM switch which thinks it's
> much smarter than it really is. When I try to use the mouse through
> it with FreeBSD (-current from around Christmas, but I also had
> problems with -stable) it doesn't work right at all. It's got the
> same symptoms everybody else has reported: the cursor jumps around,
> and lots of "psmintr: out of sync" messages get logged.
I'm happy to report that this problem is solved now. After one fellow
wrote to me and reported that his switch of the same model worked OK,
I hunted around on the Belkin web site. It turns out that Belkin
assembled a few thousand of the units with two EPROMs swapped, and
mine was one of them. I moved the chips to their proper sockets, and
now everything works fine. You can find the gory details here:
http://www.belkin.com/support/downloads/manuals/Omnipro.pdf
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
"Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa
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