From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 2 18:29:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AECD37B402 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 18:29:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA15885; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 18:29:53 -0800 Message-ID: <3C5CA0A0.8090105@owt.com> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 18:29:52 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roch Tourigny Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mice not detected References: <3C5C8B79.2DC845EC@sympatico.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roch Tourigny wrote: > I bought a used kvm switch so i can toy with networking. > I use my old pc for all kind of test, one of these test is to finally > give a try to freebsd. > I installed it to an old hard drivre of sufficient capacity(1.5 gb). > > The problem i have now is that the ps2 mouse will not be detected at all > if it is plugged into the kvm switch. I must absolutely plug it into the > pcb to get it to work. > > I did not have any problem with the same hadware under mandrake linux or > windows98. > > I enquired about a flash upgrade for the kvm switch but i did not > received an answer yet an i doubt i will receive any. > > Does anyone have an idea for a fix or a work around this problem? > > For those interested here are some of my pc specs > os : freebsd 4.5 install-iso > cpu : pIII 450 > mobo : unknown manufacturer , intel 440 bx chipset, award bios > video : matrox g100 4mb agp > nic : d-link de528 > ibm etherjet 10/100 I have 4 machines on a kvm switch. One of them needs a serial mouse and I have a mouse plugged into the ps/2 port on the switch. The mouse understands ps/2 and serial. The only thing I have done is use the following setup # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse device atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message