From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 01:24:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB0BD37B401 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 01:24:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.hacknslash.org (bdsl.66.14.88.171.gte.net [66.14.88.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B2843FA3 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 01:24:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from octavian@hacknslash.org) Received: (qmail 69693 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2003 09:24:41 -0000 Received: from phobos.lexis.int (HELO hacknslash.org) (10.0.0.15) by mail.hacknslash.org with SMTP; 27 Mar 2003 09:24:41 -0000 Message-ID: <3E82C2C0.1050503@hacknslash.org> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 01:22:08 -0800 From: Octavian Hornoiu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Victor Bondarenko References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030326203025.00a0bd20@pop.voyager.net> <20030326174823.A45401@mail.telestream.com> In-Reply-To: <20030326174823.A45401@mail.telestream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-28.7 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding a KVM, what should I be aware of? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: octavian@hacknslash.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:24:15 -0000 Victor Bondarenko wrote: >On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:32:18PM -0500, Dragoncrest wrote: >[...] > > >>putting it on the KVM. I know some people have mentioned issues with that >>before, so I wanted to be ready and aware of any and all issues so I could >>nail them as they show up so I'm not ripping my hair out trying to solve >>issues relating to my KVM switch. Thanks! >> >> > >FWIW, I've had no serious issues with my KVM (some type of an older >Cybex.) > >It does seem that some machines have a problem using the mouse in >Xwindows (mouse is jerky and all over the screen.) I had to enable >moused and use /dev/sysmouse (vs. using /dev/psm0 or whatever.) Other >than that no problems whatsoever. > >HTH, Victor > > i have never been able to successfully keep the mouse working using freebsd and Belkin KVM's. The mouse works at first when you start up the mouse daemon but if you switch KVM consoles to another box and then switch back the mouse is all messed up and you have to manually restart the daemon every time. Other than that, if you are just doing server keyboard work then you will be fine. I have used 3 different Belking models so this seems to be a recurring issue with them, don't know if this happens with other brands. No problems with keyboard whatsoever. Cheers, octavian