Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:53:10 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2 Showstopper? Belkin KVM switch problems with FreeBSD 4.2 Message-ID: <20001121185310.K27042@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <20001121005224.13116.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>; from gerti@bitart.com on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 06:52:23PM -0600 References: <20001121002924.13031.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> <XFMail.001120154737.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200011210041.RAA29483@harmony.village.org> <20001121005224.13116.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>
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On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 18:52 -0600, Gerd Knops wrote:
>
> KVM users heads up: In order to support USB keyboards
> the generic kernel does not install an atkbd0 driver
> if no keyboard is detected. Some KVMs fail to sufficiently
> emulate a keyboard, causing the system to fail to detect a
> keyboard if the system is not currently selected on the KVM
> switch. This can be avoided by removing the 'flags 0x1'
> portion in the atkbd0 line of the kernel configuration file,
> then building and installing a new kernel.
Is building and installing a new kernel necessary? Changing the
flags in the USER_CONFIG menu or editing /boot/kernel.conf should
suffice. So this could all be done at installation time and last
for ever -- if I'm not overlooking some important point.
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