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From: Yanek Korff <yanek@cigital.com>
To: 'Jim King' <jim@jimking.net>,
	Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>,
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Subject: RE: Belkin 8-port KVM = keyboard inactive
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:53:27 -0400
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It may be a design issue with the Omniview, but I would assume FreeBSD's
checks are more stringent than those of Windows boxes -- I've got NT 4.0 and
2k on the same 8-port and they reboot remotely with no keyboard/mouse
problems.

-Yanek.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim King [mailto:jim@jimking.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 4:47 PM
> To: Christopher Masto; Kenneth D. Merry
> Cc: Yanek Korff; 'freebsd-stable@freeBSD.org'
> Subject: Re: Belkin 8-port KVM = keyboard inactive
> 
> 
> "Christopher Masto" <chris@netmonger.net> 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
> 
> 
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