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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:24:35 -0800
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver (Solved!)
Message-ID:  <3A5D5FB3.D6412F4D@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <XFMail.010106141224.jdp@polstra.com> <200101062359.f06NxIv11832@vashon.polstra.com>

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John Polstra wrote:
> 
> 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

	This is an all time classic!

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    "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and
     to watch someone else do it wrong without comment."
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