Date: 16 Jul 2002 07:31:05 -0700 From: Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net> To: Tom Limoncelli <tal@lumeta.com> Cc: Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org>, 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: <1026829866.56263.5.camel@daemon.velosystems.net> In-Reply-To: <3D342883.5090600@lumeta.com> References: <200207152335.g6FNZwj83570@kpt-c-24-159-35-85.chartertn.net> <20020716100741.A39217@ei.bzerk.org> <3D342883.5090600@lumeta.com>
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On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 07:06, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > 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? Probably because it isn't always needed, and in my case didn't work anyway. The problem is the mouse, imo. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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