Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 22:10:40 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Subject: Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver (Solved!) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010106220832.22348B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200101062359.f06NxIv11832@vashon.polstra.com>
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On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, 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: > > http://www.belkin.com/support/downloads/manuals/Omnipro.pdf Do you know if this fixes the problem the following problem that I started experiencing somewhere in the RELENG_4 line? For some machines, if the KVM is not pointed at the box, the keyboard will not probe properly, and does not respond for that session. As long as I boot with the KVM pointed at the machine during the boot process, it probes fine. This doesn't seem to impact the boot loaders, only after the kernel has loaded and probed. It's really annoying as my crashbox has this problem, so I have to swap to it every time I boot, and given the need to type continue in the serial gdb, I often miss the window. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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