From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Mon Jun 21 15:44:24 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE0DC16A4D0
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:44:24 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA42143D54
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:44:23 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org)
Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
	id 1BcQy3-0007MQ-00
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:44:19 +0200
Received: from r2i215.mistral.cz ([62.245.72.215])
        by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian))
        id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00
        for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:44:19 +0200
Received: from element by r2i215.mistral.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian))
        id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00
        for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:44:19 +0200
X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
From: Pavel Duda <element@email.cz>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:43:33 +0200
Lines: 23
Message-ID: <cb6vof$vr1$1@sea.gmane.org>
References: <20040620171437.42260.qmail@web60601.mail.yahoo.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org
X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r2i215.mistral.cz
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
In-Reply-To: <20040620171437.42260.qmail@web60601.mail.yahoo.com>
Sender: news <news@sea.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Question about KVM switch
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:44:25 -0000

Hillman Dai wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have just installed the FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm using
> a KVM switch to share the monitor, mouse and keyboard.
> I could managed to use keyboard while the mouse still
> doesn't work. Could you help me to solve the problem?
> What kind of command I could use to check and which
> file you want me to send back to you?
> 
> The brand of the KVM switch is:
> Name: IOGear
> Model: GCS52U
> 
> Thank You for your support!
> 
> Regards,
> Hillman
> 

Some machines are not able to handle "mouse switching" while runing.
When I was connecting 8-port KVM switches to some of our (old) servers
(with FBSD and AIX) I had to reboot them to get mouse to work.