From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 6 15:59:22 2001 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 6 15:59:20 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D58E337B400; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 15:59:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA28594; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 15:59:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) id f06NxIv11832; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 15:59:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 15:59:18 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200101062359.f06NxIv11832@vashon.polstra.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver (Solved!) In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: jdp@wall.polstra.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article , John Polstra 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 -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message