Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 23:20:43 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver (Solved!) Message-ID: <3A580ABB.1C35C44C@softweyr.com> References: <XFMail.010106141224.jdp@polstra.com> <200101062359.f06NxIv11832@vashon.polstra.com>
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John Polstra wrote:
>
> In article <XFMail.010106141224.jdp@polstra.com>,
> John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've got a Belkin OmniView Pro 8-Port KVM switch which thinks it's
> > much smarter than it really is. When I try to use the mouse through
> > it with FreeBSD (-current from around Christmas, but I also had
> > problems with -stable) it doesn't work right at all. It's got the
> > same symptoms everybody else has reported: the cursor jumps around,
> > and lots of "psmintr: out of sync" messages get logged.
>
> I'm happy to report that this problem is solved now. After one fellow
> wrote to me and reported that his switch of the same model worked OK,
> I hunted around on the Belkin web site. It turns out that Belkin
> assembled a few thousand of the units with two EPROMs swapped, and
> mine was one of them. I moved the chips to their proper sockets, and
> now everything works fine. You can find the gory details here:
Snort. Let's hear it for good web support, though.
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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