From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 6 22:14:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FE4A37B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 22:14:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14F9C8-0000Mr-00 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2001 23:20:44 -0700 Message-ID: <3A580ABB.1C35C44C@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 23:20:43 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver (Solved!) References: <200101062359.f06NxIv11832@vashon.polstra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Polstra wrote: > > 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: Snort. Let's hear it for good web support, though. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message