Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:06:59 -0400 From: Tom Limoncelli <tal@lumeta.com> To: Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org> Cc: Eric Olsen <ericg@chartertn.net>, Roberto Armenteros <rarmente@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When is FreeBSD going to work properly with KVM switches? Message-ID: <3D342883.5090600@lumeta.com> References: <200207152335.g6FNZwj83570@kpt-c-24-159-35-85.chartertn.net> <20020716100741.A39217@ei.bzerk.org>
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Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 07:33:31PM -0400, Eric Olsen typed: > [...] > >>I have not had any problems switching between machines, EXCEPT that >>when a machine is booting up, the KVM must be set to that machine in >>order for recognition of the mouse and kbd to work properly. I find >>this to be true for Win, FBSD, and Linux. Once the machine has booted, >>I can switch away and back with no problems. I believe I was running >>FBSD 4.3 when I first installed the KVM. > > > This is a kernel configuration issue. Edit the line > > device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1 > > in your kernel configuration file, removing the "flags 0x1" part. Recompile > your kernel and reboot. The machine will now recognize your keyboard even > when it was switched away at boot time. Why isn't this the default for GENERIC kernels? And dare I ask... why is there even a flag for this situation? --tal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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