From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 12:28: 9 2003 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 03E6E37B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:28:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from anubis.dweebsoft.com (anubis.dweebsoft.com [64.81.58.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91CF643ED8 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:28:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from deckenberg@dweebsoft.com) Received: from daxhome (daxhome.dweebsoft.com [192.168.10.10]) by anubis.dweebsoft.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h0MKS4eC002590; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:28:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <08d301c2c254$c59dcdd0$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> From: "Dax Eckenberg" To: "Justin P. Michel" , References: <019301c2c253$e3613d30$0e0ea8c0@xerxes> Subject: Re: KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:27:59 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4920.2300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have an electronic KVM that I want to use to switch between my crappy > system, and my FreeBSD system. The keyboard and mouse work fine on my > crappy system, but, on the FreeBSD system, they work fine on startup, but > after switching back and forth only once, the mouse (LED mouse) starts > flashing, and the keyboard only works intermittently. After reading a bit > on the newsgroups/mailing lists, I added "flags 0x100" to the "device psm0" > line in the kernel, and recompiled it, but that did not fix the problem. > Then, I added the optional 9V adapter to the KVM, but that also did not fix > the problem. Is there something I am missing, or does FreeBSD just not work > with a KVM? > > I'm using FreeBSD 4.7-Release-p3. The two different KVMs (both create the > same problem) are a Belkin OmniView SE, and a StarTech StarView. > > Regards, > > Justin P. Michel Does your KVM have the option to "reset the mouse & keyboard"? I use Cybex KVM's and the problem you're describing is normally fixed by performing a kbd/mouse reset via the Cybex's on screen menu. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message