From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 06:39:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9FE9106564A for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:39:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-130.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-130.bluehost.com [67.222.38.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACB488FC17 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:39:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 8619 invoked by uid 0); 21 Jan 2009 06:39:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy4.bluehost.com with SMTP; 21 Jan 2009 06:39:36 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=WskQoi28bzpS8gtPEB4vfo4MMlbAut5UqI+XlE7i1fdjy/XExFBy0tlSzd3JGHE2Pe4grmWysVPy7Iz1VU9IVGGtN0XmV1pPXVJf3SUG6gcsIGYyArxzNCrvFS2GCltj; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LPWkS-0002z7-8y for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:39:36 -0700 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:38:12 -0700 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:38:12 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20090121063811.GA21360@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions References: <1232424988.7651.20.camel@pokey.kendallshaw.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1232424988.7651.20.camel@pokey.kendallshaw.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: kvm switch X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:39:34 -0000 --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:16:28PM -0800, Kendall Shaw wrote: > Do you have a kvm switch that does mouse and keyboard emulation and know > that it works with freebsd? >=20 > I have an iogear kvm switch from around the last time I asked this > question here years back, that has usually worked with linux, netbsd, > openbsd, macos and windows. Back then to work with freebsd, each time I > switched away and back I would login remotely and issue a command to get > freebsd to recognize the keyboard again. >=20 > The newer version of my kvm switch says it has mouse and keyboard > emulation, but I can't get a straight answer out of them if that means > the OS can tell that they keyboard has disconnected or not. Do you know? > Or do you know of a KVM switch, that does that and is suitable for an > impoverished person's home computing needs? >=20 > Also, I read someone's comment on newegg that the mouse emulation only > emulates 2 buttons. Do you know if that is true? I have an IOGEAR GCS632U -- a two-port USB KVM switch. It works great for me, but be forewarned that using a wireless mouse-and-keyboard set that both uses the same USB dongle as the receiver for both IO devices it probably won't work very well. Even though I have a mouse and keyboard that are part of a matched set using the same dongle, I have to use a different mouse with that keyboard so I can plug the mouse into the mouse port on the KVM switch and the keyboard's wireless dongle into the keyboard port on the KVM switch. Otherwise, it works great -- I just hit scroll lock twice, and it switches between a FreeBSD desktop tower and an MS Windows desktop tower. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Antony Jay: "In corporate religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right." --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkl2wtMACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKV2mgCfbczC1EG6Zu1ZB7XGbx7HGbG0 HmcAoN2ajBYbUaBJIRYMFHOLS+lzy0yC =fttD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp--