From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 21 15: 3: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A44737B4D7 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:03:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1588 invoked by uid 0); 21 Nov 2000 20:15:42 -0000 Received: from p3ee21658.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.226.22.88) by mail.gmx.net (mail02) with SMTP; 21 Nov 2000 20:15:42 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14861 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:53:10 +0100 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:53:10 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2 Showstopper? Belkin KVM switch problems with FreeBSD 4.2 Message-ID: <20001121185310.K27042@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001121002924.13031.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> <200011210041.RAA29483@harmony.village.org> <20001121005224.13116.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20001121005224.13116.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>; from gerti@bitart.com on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 06:52:23PM -0600 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message