Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:41:29 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Subject: Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver (Solved!) Message-ID: <200101070341.QAA13937@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010106220832.22348B-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <200101062359.f06NxIv11832@vashon.polstra.com>
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On 6 Jan 2001, at 22:10, Robert Watson wrote: > 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. This is probably not helpful to your situation, but thought I should contribute this as it is KVM related. I just bought a KVM switch (My Hopper, by Rextron Technology). I bought 10M cables to use with it. The FreeBSD box won't boot if I use those cables. It thinks the keyboard isn't there. Note: this appears to be a BIOS problem as if I want long enough, I get the "keyboard not found, press F1 to continue" message. If I don't use the 10M cables, the box boots as expected. Yes, I've thought of enabling no-keyboard booting, but there is no setting in the BIOS. It's on the motherboard I'm told and I've yet to open the box and find it. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ NZ Broadband - http://unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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