From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 18 13:47:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flounder.jimking.net (flounder.jimking.net [209.205.176.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC58E37B404 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:47:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jking (jking.lgc.com [134.132.154.119]) (authenticated) by flounder.jimking.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3IKkj391666; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:46:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Message-ID: <00c201c1e71a$2725f710$779a8486@jking> From: "Jim King" To: "Christopher Masto" , "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: "Yanek Korff" , "'freebsd-stable@freeBSD.org'" References: <51CC94132526754995E79DCF28C0C34D09B66F@exchange.cigital.com> <20020417194858.A89753@panzer.kdm.org> <20020418203410.GA5227@netmonger.net> Subject: Re: Belkin 8-port KVM = keyboard inactive Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:46:45 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Christopher Masto" wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:48:58PM -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem, but some of the > > Belkin Omniview 8 port KVM switches were manufactured with two EEPROMs > > swapped. See John Polstra's description of the message on -hackers: > > No, he had it right; it's the atkbd flags. It's a pain in the ass. > I'm completely ignorant in this area, but obviously there is a > difference between "no keyboard" and "KVM switched to different port". > The BIOS, for example, complains about the former but not the latter. > I'd guess FreeBSD is requiring more of the keyboard than whatever > the cheap KVM "trick" keyboard is providing. > > I wonder if FreeBSD's probe could be made less demanding so that it > doesn't kill the keyboard driver in the KVM case. That would > hopefully satisfy both the USB keyboard situation and those of us > using these KVM switches. Is the problem in the FreeBSD probe or this particular KVM switch? I don't recall having this problem with my Belkin Omnicube. Is anybody having problems with other KVM switches besides the Omniview 8-port? Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message